Working on AWESOME!

In Writers' Workshop today, we continued to talk about all things AWESOME! We read some more entries from 1000awesomethings.com, including such things as popping bubble wrap, snow-stepping, bakery air, and the Universal Fry-Sharing Policy. After we all had a good laugh over these, the students were challenged, as the first part of their AWESOME! writing, to come up with their own list of 10 (and only 10!) AWESOME! things. Some wanted to make a longer list, but I felt that limiting it to 10 meant that they would really have to weigh out the awesomeness of all the things they were considering - perhaps, if they had to narrow it down to a list of only 10, some of the things they thought were AWESOME! were merely great, cool, or fun. There were some good lists that came about - the next step is to refine/define some of them a little more. This is such a fun project - I can hardly wait for them to get down to writing about their AWESOME!