First Summer Professional Development Meeting

Ok, today we outlined three goals for our meetings and going into next year.

1. Portfolios - We would like to identify common writing pieces that highlight skills we want our students to develop for each grade level.

2. Review AP Language Curriculum & Build - Look over Mia & Cheryl's AP Syllabus and
Align Grade Level Curriculum and plan from there.

3. Align Curriculum by Grade Level - Starting from junior year and working backwards.

Here's What We Did:

Essentially, for two hours, we looked at Mia & Cheryl's AP Language Syllabus & discussed things we need to see addressed over English 9 & 10 to support AP Language. We decided that a few skills that need emphasis and alignment are:
standard editing makrs
process of editing, peer revision strategies
multiple choice strategies
annotation emphasis & strategies (especially since students will not have their own books) with an emphasis of strategies
Vocabulary - we discussed this at length and came up with no definitive answer as of yet
we discussed working in open book tests & using opening exercises to help out with attendance
Utilize common acronymic strategies to approach literature and nonfiction
Identified the common writing pieces in AP Language syllabus that we need to address....

Next Meeting We'd Like to Accomplish
List English III types of writing
Identify and list English II Tasks for the Portfolio