What a great resource! I am only on Chapter 1 of Image Grammar and I already have a bunch of strategies I can try in my current and future classroom. In Chapter 1, Harry Noden talks about the writer as an artist. There are two categories of seeing for writers: showing and telling. Harry Noden, author of Image Grammar, wants to focus on the showing aspect. Like Noden says “Showing engages the reader’s mind as a catalyst for visualization. Telling lulls the reader to sleep” (3).
What I like best about Noden’s first chapter is that he explains the 5 basic brush strokes in a very simple way, so simple that you can use that same description on students. Noden also gives strategies to supplement his concepts. I actually liked most of the strategies. There was one that I think won’t work at my current student teaching location. Strategy 5: Tour a Writer’s Gallery is a good strategy, but I can’t see it working in my classroom at Brunswick. The students, I think, will just not pay attention during the strategy. They will just BS their way through it and not learn anything.
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I really like Noden's ideas on brush strokes as well. That is awesome that you are able to teach those strategies! I am really hoping to get a writing class after I graduate, but as for right now, I am not teaching a unit that makes room for such concepts. Anyways, let me know how teaching those brush strokes goes. The examples that Noden has from his students' writing are always fun to look at. I am sure your students will come up with some interesting descriptions.
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