Sunday, February 25, 2007

AP Vertical Team Minutes - 2/22/7

We met in my room and discussed the section on syntax. It is a rather extensive section, with many different things going on. We came to the following understandings:

  • While reading the section, much of the information served as a needed refresher, and a few terms were completely new to us (or at least me).
  • We feel that while it is not so important to have students memorize the terms, there are many syntactical and rhetorical techniqes that we could help them utilize.
  • As a department, we need to further discuss what grammar & syntax needs direct instruction and reinforcement, and we need to determine some sort of plan for department implementation.
  • We also decided to spend at least one more week on syntax. For this Wednesday we each are planning on bringing rough ideas to start to establish
    1. essential grammar stuff & when to introduce/reinforce
    2. an overall plan for some of the syntax stuff, including lesson plan ideas
See you Wednesday at 7:30.

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