Author: daniellemharms
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Revision Stations: An alternative approach to peer review
Summary: In this engaged activity, students review some vocabulary for describing the writing process, then break into small groups for self-directed learning at multiple revision stations. If possible, students move to different spaces around the classroom (or surrounding space) where the instructor sets up each “station” with revision tasks, experimenting with different approaches to revision…
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One Thousand Wednesdays
A new blog about the comfort women issue I’m working to get a separate blog up and running dedicated to sharing the research I do about the issue of comfort women and comfort stations. It’ll be called One Thousand Wednesdays. While I get things up and running, I’ll share my first posts here. I can’t say when…
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Today I Noticed the Begonia Blooming
When Greg and I moved into our new apartment last summer—an English basement on D.C.’s Rock Creek Park—it was the first place we’d ever lived together that had a yard. I often track the years of our history together with the apartments we’ve shared—five so far. This was our sixth. We met in our final months of college, drawn together by the Midwestern…
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Today I Noticed Trees Filled With Holes
At first I didn’t realize it was a woodpecker making all that noise. When I heard the tap-tap-tapping sound overhead I didn’t give it much attention. I assumed our landlord must be home, and that the footfall of her shoes was descending through the ceiling.
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Cleaver Magazine Publication, Pt. II
As I shared yesterday, my essay “Fragile Bodies” was included in the latest issue of Cleaver Magazine. I wrote this essay a while ago, and while I’ve chipped away at it every now and then, it has spent most of its life sitting dormant in an overlooked file. After reviving this essay a month or so ago, I was thrilled to…
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“Fragile Bodies” Published in Cleaver Magazine
I am thrilled to have an essay, “Fragile Bodies,” in the newest issue of Cleaver Magazine, which went live today. It’s a short, lyric piece of nonfiction about the time I spent working on an organic chicken farm in Florida. The essay tells the story of a box of baby chickens we picked up at the town’s local post…