Everything's Better When We Co-Llab-Or-Ate! - 10/31/11

We talked more about our Ethnography/Artifact Essay assignment, and what we could consider as an artifact. Randall shared some material he found. We also discussed the Argumentative Essay, and how it would apply to English 11.

English 11 PLC - 10/24/11

Joey was putting together the October newspaper, so we decided to work on our individual Ethnography/Artifact Essays over the coming week. We'll get back together next Monday to discuss what we came up with.

English 11 Way Fab Collab - 10/17/11

We met together as a department for a little over half the time and discussed the Argumentative Essay as created (and very well) by Sarah, Angie, & Randall. Angie put together a proposal which drove the discussion. It outlined potential documents that would apply to 10th, 11th, and 12th grades respectively, as well as a list of potential continued efforts for future wrangling.

As a group we continued the discussion as it applied to English 11.

E11 Collaboration - 10/03/11

Continued looking at and compiling examples to use with the Ethnogrophy/Artifact Paper, and Shauna brought in a great example of how she uses SOAPSTONE with President Obama's Back-to-School speech.

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Whoops-What We've Been Up To

Sorry everyone-we've slacked on this. I swear it's not payback for nobody using the wiki last year, because that's not how we roll. Kyle, we especially apologize to you. You are the beard to be feared, and we shout out much love to your creation.

Where we've been: over the summer we met as a grant group and decided on a course of study for the year. We've started with the Ethnogrophy/Artifact Paper, and have spent the three Mondays we've had together reading over examples, looking at possible video connections, and making applications to our own curricula. We also looked at an existing rubric developed by another teacher and assessed its potential utility.