Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Unnecessary Quotation Marks
Cheryl and I were discussing punctuation at the gang inservice yesterday, and I remembered this site profiling instances of unnecessary quotation marks. Pretty funny stuff.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Meeting Minutes 10/17
Members Attending: Zagst, Benson, Wrobel, Moore, Caccamise, Malley
Hey folks. This morning we meet in the library at 7:45 for a brief department meeting. We discussed the following items:
Hey folks. This morning we meet in the library at 7:45 for a brief department meeting. We discussed the following items:
- The Blog - received email from new members to get them "blog-good" (Lauren has already been blog-good! Great job Lauren!
- Overhead Projector - I promised Jeanie and Veronica my overhead. I will deliver that bad boy to room 206 tomorrow.
- Handling the paper load - We tossed around ideas regarding not being overwhelmed by correcting papers. Some pretty good suggestions were bandied about, but we all agreed this this is one of the
suckychallenging aspects of being an English teacher. - Mia shared the librarian's news that she will soon be ordering any books. If anyone has any titles in mind, let her know.
- CSchlEP is coming up, and we discussed it. We'll need to be discussing approaches we can take to improve student achievement.
TKAM @ Studio Arena
Hello everyone,
TKAM is playing at Studio Arena early next year (jan. - feb.). I would love to teach the novel and take my 9th graders to the performance in Feb. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I know that some of the elementary schools (BPS) have received class sets of complimentary tickets and was wondering if McKinley is in on that too. I'll probably be calling the theater soon so if anyone might be interested in going, please just let me know your student numbers. Also, is there a class set of the novels floating around anywhere that might be available between Dec. and Feb.? I have close to 40 students in each of my 9th grade classes. Thanks guys!
TKAM is playing at Studio Arena early next year (jan. - feb.). I would love to teach the novel and take my 9th graders to the performance in Feb. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I know that some of the elementary schools (BPS) have received class sets of complimentary tickets and was wondering if McKinley is in on that too. I'll probably be calling the theater soon so if anyone might be interested in going, please just let me know your student numbers. Also, is there a class set of the novels floating around anywhere that might be available between Dec. and Feb.? I have close to 40 students in each of my 9th grade classes. Thanks guys!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Wednesday Meeting Minutes
Attendance: Caccamise, W.Benson, Zagst, Bouquard, Wrobel, Moore
Overview of AP Vertical Teams--new staff members need booklet if possible
*Information given to new staff about what vertical team is, has done, and hopes to do
*further discussion on portfolios and assessment
Eng I and II exams
*started planning for midterms as it has already been decided that the finals would be tasks 1 and 4 for freshman and 2 and 3 for sophmores. Junior and senior teachers will also need midterm to be determined by grade-level teachers. Lesley likes the mid-term textbook assessment with take home supplement and some agreed. For juniors, Regents exam sounds appropriate---speaking of which we should probably get to organizing practice exams in the cafe again for tasks 2/3 at least before one of the 1/2 days so we can correct.
Writing Tasks
*some discussion and assign for next time for grade levels to decide what elements of writing they will be focusing on
Problems/Concerns/Info
*Wrobel needs at least 7 language e/f workbooks
*Moore needs teachrs edition 9th gr textbook (i found and will give her today)
*both Wrobel and Moore have expressed concern over lack of definite grade-level guidelines and bench marks.
*Mr. Hughes restated the fact that he has some novels in his room if we need them
Tentative meeting date: oct.17th unless otherwise noted
Overview of AP Vertical Teams--new staff members need booklet if possible
*Information given to new staff about what vertical team is, has done, and hopes to do
*further discussion on portfolios and assessment
Eng I and II exams
*started planning for midterms as it has already been decided that the finals would be tasks 1 and 4 for freshman and 2 and 3 for sophmores. Junior and senior teachers will also need midterm to be determined by grade-level teachers. Lesley likes the mid-term textbook assessment with take home supplement and some agreed. For juniors, Regents exam sounds appropriate---speaking of which we should probably get to organizing practice exams in the cafe again for tasks 2/3 at least before one of the 1/2 days so we can correct.
Writing Tasks
*some discussion and assign for next time for grade levels to decide what elements of writing they will be focusing on
Problems/Concerns/Info
*Wrobel needs at least 7 language e/f workbooks
*Moore needs teachrs edition 9th gr textbook (i found and will give her today)
*both Wrobel and Moore have expressed concern over lack of definite grade-level guidelines and bench marks.
*Mr. Hughes restated the fact that he has some novels in his room if we need them
Tentative meeting date: oct.17th unless otherwise noted
Monday, October 1, 2007
Memo: English Department meeting Wednesday, 10/04
Wednesday morning we will be having our 2nd meeting of the year in the Library. The meeting will start promptly at 7:40 and punctuality will be most appreciated. I am putting together an agenda for the meeting. If you have any news, questions, or other items to share either slip a note in my mailbox or email me at jcmalley@buffaloschools.org.
See you Wednesday morning.
See you Wednesday morning.
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