May+7,+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 || Egipto || Gross || Jacoub || McGlenn || Sagapolutele || Harris || Patton ||

1. ECAP sequence due Friday 5/11 2. Discussion of Persuasive Research Unit 3. Discussion of English department goals
 * submit Intermediate or HB sequence as our final sequence
 * are they finalized?
 * ECAP Symposium 5/30 - Anthony and Sophia Presenting
 * how are things going so far?
 * what techniques, scaffolds, interesting lessons are you using/planning to use?
 * vertical alignment
 * standards matrix and assessments

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:

-We are going to submit the copy that Jenn made for ECAP this Friday. -Anthony and Sophia are presenting at the ECAP Symposium on May 30. You can get a sub for the pullout.

-Some are starting to write this week, however, most are at the charting and marking the text. -(Anthony) Intro, academic summary, academic summary and opinion. <--- This is the make up of the final product. (paragraph by paragraph) -(Maxine) Intro, two paragraphs about each article, opinion/persuasive, conclusion. She thinks that we need to keep it how it always has been because it is tied to standards. -Anthony showed a Prezi about the Persuasive/Research Unit. (look above at the link) -Sophia wants to do a Socratic Seminar with her students. -Vicki wants to have a dialogue with her students where the students are role playing.

-Some of are filling out the matrix that James discussed at the last English Department Meeting. -The matrix is tied to common core standards.