January+23,+2012

media type="custom" key="10428220" Meeting location: room 103

Meeting begins: 8:00am media type="custom" key="10428226" PLC Members take turns recording and posting (see below) the minutes from today's meeting: media type="custom" key="10428230" Collaboration Meeting Agenda:
 * Bethe || Cadwell || Devine || Duran || Gross || Jacoub || McGlenn || Sagapolutele ||

**Announcements**: 1. Complete LAS testing 2. Update Google doc with all quarter information including final grade
 * gather all booklets
 * place labels on student answer books. students without labels need to be bubbled in.
 * sort them by grade level, then alphabetize (not by period #) and place in envelopes
 * return all envelopes and testing materials to Anthony Devine (1104) by Thursday

** Discussion **

3. Quarter 3 Expository 4. (if time) Discussion of Chapter 6: Scaffolding
 * review/revise prompts
 * continue spiraling AP/writing plan techniques
 * Does our rubric make sense? Should we all use the same rubric?
 * How do we teach expository (adding intro and conclusion)?

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:

--Turn in LAS testing to Anthony by Thursday and make sure to organize the tests so that Anthony won't have to later. --Make sure to enter in all final grades on the Google Doc. --We looked through the Expository prompts as a review of what the next quarter will look like. We changed the Benchmark, Week 4. We are going to make Week 4 the Benchmark and fix the Benchmark. Look for changes. --Copy Narrative grammar to the Expository Rubric and add a preposition component. --Under the Organziation and Focus change the rubric to include details and support. --At each level we are doing three paragraphs for each assessment. --Starting the Expository Unit during Week 2 of Quarter 3. --Scaffolding discussion will wait until next week.