Re-entering Our Critical Incidents

Let's re-enter the "heart" pieces you wrote yesterday which centered around a heart memory of your interactions with a student. Today (and probably into tomorrow) we will:

• Create a snapshot (Lane, p. 30)
• Create a thoughtshot (Lane, p.45 )
• Explode a moment (Lane, p 71)
• Shrink a century (Lane, p. 76 )

We will do these activities together, pausing to share and debrief with our small groups after each activity.

A snapshot creates sharp physical detail (Lane, p. 45) It is like using a magic camera that one can point at the world and create snatpshots that contain smells and sounds as wella s colors and light (Lane, p. 30)

A thoughtshot is simplay a look at what a character is thinking and feeling. Thoughtshots often draw frames around stories and essays; they place events in a context and give the reader and the writer a reason to be interested. (Lane p. 45)

Exploding a moment is zooming the camera lens in on special moments that stand out in any event or memory. Your "camera" had the ability to see multiple spaces at any time, thoughts are in sharp focus, as well as the other senses. This is much like what you feel in times of extreme stress or momentous events in your life. (Lane, pp. 71-73). Events are slowed down and you see everything in slow motion, very clearly.

Shrinking a century is just the opposite of exploding a moment. Time is truncrated--much time is compressed into just a few words. (Lane, pp. 77)