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The women who join those sites are usually old, and unattractive.
Another thing is, even though they're members, they still aren't as sexually bold as WE would be.
To US, it's "Ok. This is a sex site. You're on here, so you must want to fuck. What's up?" lol
Obviously, WOMEN are NOT LIKE that. Even if they ARE looking for sex, they still want to feel a connection, and some comfort, before going there with you.
But if you THINK about it, that's what MOST women want...on EVERY site!
So you ask yourself the question: "If I gotta go through all that, just to get sex, why don't I just stick to the sites that have SEXY women as members?"
I mean, EITHER WAY, you must establish COMFORT. Why PAY to do it?
So, last Friday I spoke a bit about the work and worry of having a book come out. And this Friday, I am going to share a bit about how having a loving community and a field of experts (friend or otherwise) makes the process not so lonely.
One of the women, among the many here in Austin, that have taken me under their wing, taught me the ropes, and have shared their time and talents with me is the incredible Debbie Gonzales. Debbie is the RA for our Austin Chapter and is a fearless leader who has stamina and a deep connection to community and with everything Debbie takes on she gets it all done. And not just done. Done well. Done fantastically. Debbie, and others on the SCBWI team, have put together a stellar line up for the Austin Boots, Books and Buckskin Conference. Registration is open now and spots are going fast.
And, I know of what I speak when I toot Debbie’s horn. She just completed a Teacher Activity Guide for my new MG novel, Truth with a Capital T. It breaks the novel down into a six week teaching unit, includes discussion questions, a crossword puzzle using the Little Known Facts headers from each chapter, has a reader’s theater scene and asks kids to create their own and contains a presentation grading rubric for teachers, provides an exercise on the quilt codes, has a multi-media aspect with clogging clips, music clips, etc. as well as has TEKS standards at the end (which will be important to Texas teachers but can be modified for other markets).
I can’t tell you what a joy it was to see Debbie’s finished guide. This is no lie. Reading it, I cried. Debbie had provided a teacher with everything he or she needed to teach Truth with a Capital T in the classroom. For public schools, private schools, or homeschooler co-ops. I was floored. I cannot wait for teachers and kids to reap the benefits of her hard work.
On to the interview.
Debbie, you are an expert educator. You were once a classroom teacher, school administrator, educational consultant, and curriculum designer, published a series of word-level readers with Gilt Edge Publishing and now run the Simple Saturday’s blog for teachers and parents, which showcases incredible and fun activities from science to math to music and drama, hold and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and are one of the founding members of readerkidz.com so I can think of no one better to ask: Why are Teacher Guides needed?
I think that Teacher Guides offer an artistic, expressive, cross-curricular connection between a book, a child, and the caring adult. Teacher Guides do exactly what their name suggests…they guide the teacher in various creative ways, enhancing the learning opportunities a good book offers. A quality guide incorporates a multisensory approach to learning as well as celebrating the delights of the book it compliments. In my opinion, a good Teacher’s Guide can help keep a book in a teacher’s mind and in the hands of their students.
What are the components of a good Teacher Guide? How can they be used by the classroom teacher or by a homeschooler co-op?
I think each book calls for its own style of a Teacher Guide. The guide must be created with the target age of the child in mind, as well as the adult who is directing that child. In my opinion, lessons in a good guide are written clearly – void of unnecessary extraneous distracting fluff – are easy to read, and even easier to implement. They are interesting, utilizing all aspect of the curriculum. And, best of all, the lessons in the guide need to be fun! The enjoyment the child experiences while involved in the guide’s activities transfers to their delight in the author’s fine work. When the child and their teacher/parent think of the enjoyable experiences they shared together, it is the book that they ultimately recall. And that’s what we’re all about…yes?
Do all author’s need to have a Teacher Guide to accompany the release of a novel or picture book? Why or why not?
In my opinion, yes they do, particularly if the author is relatively new to the business. Be it a board book or YA, a quality Teacher Guide aides in the hopeful longevity of the author’s work. Young ones learning to read need reinforcement of sound patterns, plot, character development, and guidance in relating to the key elements of the theme. All for this can be accomplished with cross-curricular activities and by having some plain-old good fun! Middle-graders need to understand their new, thicker, more complex stories. A quality guide leads the teacher step-by-step to enhance the middle-grade child’s literary experience. Teacher Guides crafted for Young Adult literature is more introspective. Hopefully a good Teacher Guide written with the teen reader in mind will lead the young reader and caring adult toward a better understanding of the author’s intention as it relates to the teen reader – maybe even make a critical difference in a young person’s understanding of themselves and the world around them.
How does having a Teacher Guide professionally made by a freelancer, such as yourself, help an author? Who have you worked with and what have the results been?
I bring years and years of experience with all kinds of kids in all sorts of situations along with me when I create a guide. To begin with, I know – first hand – what it is like to be in the academic trenches, so to speak. I understand the budgetary limitations of most programs. I know what it is like to have to quickly scan the objectives of a lesson while balancing the unending demands of day-in-day-out classroom survival. The people who work in these classrooms need help, and a quality guide will give those saints the assistance they desire. I also bring decades of didactic awareness to the page. I speak teacher-eze, which is a connective language all of its own. And, the fact that the author has the thoughtfulness to offer a carefully crafted guide to them as a gift…well, the author and their book may have won their way into that busy professional’s heart forever!
If you access the Discussion Guide tab on my Simple Saturday website at www.debbiegonzales.com, there is list of most of recent guides I’ve made. You can see that there are many different guides created in a variety of formats – from detailed annotations of state-wide academic standards to mixing a Monster Bubble solution. I am happy to say that each one is uniquely created. Each one is special to me.
Jennifer Ziegler was the first author to request a guide for her charming, yet profound YA How Not to Be Popular. For this book I created a Discussion Guide formatted as if kids might be meeting at a coffee shop to chat about the book. Janet Fox’sHow to Get Organized Without Losing It, Julie Berry’sSplurch Academy: The Rat Brain Fiasco, and Stephanie Greene’sPrincess Posey and the First Grade Parade all are game centered, meaning that reproducible games based on story line plot points are featured in these guides. Most recently, I created an in-depth, cross-curricular, multi-media guide for your wonderful Truth with a Capital T, Bethany. And I’ve done are many, many, many more. Each uniquely designed to capture the spirit of the book and the desires of the author. Please stop by my website and review them. You’ll make both the authors and myself very happy if you do!
I know I am not the only author out there in need! How may others contact you for Teacher Guide services?
Please feel free to contact me at debbadee5@gmail.com or through my website at www.debbiegonzales.com. Together we’ll come up with something sensational to meet the needs of the children who read your books and the adults who care for them.
For those of you looking for resource material to showcase your novels, picture books, board books, etc. I can think of no one better and more qualified to trust your book to. We can’t do it alone. We need a team and adding Debbie to your team guarantees a home run!
Goings on in Austin
If you've been hungry lately for a good haiku or when asking yourself what to have for lunch--you answer "brains." Then you MUST stop by BookPeople on Sunday September 12t at noon for K. A. Holt's launch party for Brains for Lunch (Neal Porter Books, Roaringbook Press). Face painting, thriller dance...and brain food will be served.
And hop on over to Cynthia Leitich Smith's newly designed website. As everyone knows, Cyn is the queen of all things kid lit and her newly designed website which is clean, graphic still has something for everyone!
And congrats to Austin's own, Liz Garton Scanlon who has been named a finalist in the 2010 Pen USA Literary Awards.
Happy three day weekend!
