CH 5 and 6 of Jago

It was quite nerve-racking reading what Jago had to say about students writing. It was hard to think that Jago could be and almost most definetly is right about teaching some students how to write well might not work at all for another group of students. Am I really going to need to think of a new way each year/semester how to teach this type of group how to write well? Blah. The beliefs she wrote down to "keep her focused" was pretty... well focused on good writing. I liked how at least, if anything else fails, and you start to get overwhelmed with having to find another way of teaching writing, that you can at least fall back to these 4 standards.
I also loved the idea of the 5-day plan. I liked a lot the letter to the parents/whomever at home, to get involved with a childs writing. I know that my parents never helped me with my writing, even though my mom went to college to be a teacher. I also liked the explanation behind the peer "response", not peer revision. I liked the sheet she gave the students, not focusing on the grammar as much as the content, did the main point get across the paper?
Ironically, in chapter 6 jago talks about how you cant give all the revising to the kids though/ you can just put them into groups and assume that they are going to teach themselves. i thought it was good to point out this extreme, because while studying to be a teacher we read/ discuss a lot of things, such as this idea of students learning from each other, but that we also have to remember that we must teach them also. I liked how she ends with writing about she still does write in red ink, and critique... I knew i was still going to do that. suck it up kids! she writes exaclty what i thought, that we're not saying ur (the student) is a bad person, just that your writing needs work... maybe i need to be more sensitive.