The community will provide you with the support you need to continue the challenge and will be cheering you on as you celebrate your accomplishment at the end of the month. Having a welcoming audience giving you insightful, positive feedback is one of the best parts of the SOLSC. Give your readers an opportunity to hear your voice, because yes, you will have readers. Yes, it can be hard, but the biggest payoff often comes from that which is most difficult. Give yourself the time and opportunity to see your potential and put yourself in the shoes of your students for 31 days (in March). We know, you probably think you can’t do it or you may not think you can keep up. Take a moment to scroll through past SOLSC Tuesdays to check out the infinite variety of topics our writing community has shared. Our daily lives are filled with so many worthy moments just waiting to be written about and shared. Have you been thinking about joining the Slice of Life Story Challenge community but don’t feel you have anything to contribute? Well, you are mistaken. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou The month-long Classroom Challenge was launched in 2013 as a response to requests from teachers who wanted to fuel their students’ writing with a Slice of Life Story Challenge experience. Adults, classroom teachers and their students across six continents participate in this weekly challenge as well as in the month-long challenge in March. The individual challenge began on Two Writing Teachers in 2008 and has grown each year. It worked! Thus, the Slice of Life Story Challenge was born. She would keep track of what each student wrote, and at the end of the month she would award those who wrote 25 or more daily entries a writing-related prize.
After using Christian’s piece as a mentor text she challenged her fourth graders to write one slice of life story in their writer’s notebook daily for the entire month of March. That experience gave Stacey an idea: she could use “slice of life” stories to inspire her fourth graders who weren’t writing in their writer’s notebooks with the same gusto as Christian. Stacey realized that was exactly the kind of entry Christian had written. It essentially means to describe everyday experiences with as much realism as possible. Stacey googled “slice of life” and found that it’s a term frequently used in literature and entertainment. Thirty minutes after they lifted up couch cushions and checked under all of the beds, her necklace turned up on her neck! There was something about his entry, this little snippet of Christian’s life. Christian wrote an entire entry about the outrage he felt when his mother made the family drop everything to search for his sister’s lost necklace in their apartment.
In February 2008, Stacey was reading one of her student’s writer’s notebooks and came across a piece of writing about his sister’s lost necklace.
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