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Writing MemoryWriting Reflective Analysis

Thinking and Planning – Ideas and structure

+Reflections = memories, events, thinking, making meaning from the past Events

Times when you remember GOOD learning

A breakthrough…

a time when you changed through learning

Or FAILURE to learn

Or CONSTANT FAILURE to learn

Analysis – deconstructing and reconstructing so that you can see its parts, how it works, what it is made of, why it works that way.

+Finding a context / memory

A geography Project is a moment of discovery…?

Or a moment of something being born…?

My Memory is Bophal

What did I learn?

+Character: What are some attributes you have developed over time?

Choose ONE that resonates with a memory

Choose TWO that show different parts of your character

+How do these things relate?

Memory – this is the core example that SHOWS your attribute.

Learning – look at your example – what does it say about you (check the handout for ways to explain this)

Character – Check that your memory, learning behaviour both SHOW the attribute you are discussing

CORE IDEA – this is the RESULT of deep thinking about the connections between these

+Components for my PLAN TO WRITE

Choice / problem-

based

Bophal Disaster

Sense of Social Justice

Opportunity to explore the

world nurtured a personal attribute

+Reflection: a conversation with self

+The Participant Observer Acting self Writing

self

DoingThinking Writing Learnt

Learning

Narrative Reflective Analysis

+Identity Changes of the Writer RETELLING the event/action represents the ACTING SELF

I felt terrible! Why did it happen?

Recalling thoughts and feelings around the event/action shows a

PARTICPANT OBSERVER

“At the time I felt terrible and had so many questions. Now, I have

terrible answers to these questions – wealth and power are unfeeling,

distance between those who harm and the harmed creates inhumane

irresponsibility. Yet, this was the first step towards taking a stand on

Social Justice events, to not sit on the sideline about the values that

impassion me.

+Example

How do groups learn?