This is another exchange that represents a follow-up to the cRD discussion, Jennifer in NJ asked:
I’d also like to know how this fits into the new weekly schedule as of 2013. Ben is saying this can last a whole 50-some minute period…..
I replied:
The only thing is to make reading a novel a separate thing we do for a week or a month. Using this idea, we would do the two week schedule and then do cRD as a kind of snowplow thing whenever we want to read a novel (that’s what Susie teaches – snowplow means snowplow; you literally plow through the book), but now with Compact R & D we would have those pauses for the one paragraph impact days and it would slow the reading of the novel down but there is nothing that can be done about that. I guess that is my answer on how it (doesn’t) fit into the 2013 schedule.
If you are new here and don’t know what the 2013 schedule is, go read that category – Weekly Schedule 2013. It’s a nice thing to use. It’s boss. It’s fab. It’s rave. I think. It’s a big fat schedule that you can plug into that will take you through a nicely contiguous kickass week of CI with honestly very little effort. OK, I’ll say it even though I made it up – it’s B.A.