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The Michigan Council of Teachers of English

Presents MCTE Fall Conference - Autumn Assembly 2010

Focusing the Kaleidoscope: Re-Imagining English Language Arts in Michigan

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Friday, October 29, 2010 Original Cover Art designed by Alexandra Sawyer, NMU Art Education Student

Autumn Assembly 2010 Table of Contents Table of Contents----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Map of Sheraton Lansing-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Greetings from the President------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-5 MCTE Executive Committee--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Letter from NCTE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Letter from Michigan’s Governor Granholm ____________________________________________8 Letter from Michigan’s Senator Stabenow_______________________________________________9 Conference Planner-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Opening Session-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Charles Carpenter Fries Award------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Ray H. Lawson Award----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Session 1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11-14 Session 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15-17 Luncheon Program--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 Session 3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18-20 Session 4 _______________________________________________________________________ 21-24 MCTE Past Presidents ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25 MCTE Affiliate Awards --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------26 NCTE Achievement in Writing Awards, H.S. Juniors ---------------------------------------------------------27 NCTE Achievement in Writing Award Winners, Eighth Grade ----------------------------------------------28 NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award Nominee_____________________________________28

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MCTE’s Creative Writing Teacher of the Year -_________________________________________ 28 2010 Conference Donors & Exhibitors --------------------------------------------------------------------------29-33

2010 Conference Notes---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------34

LEXINGTON HOTEL MAP

Lexington Lansing Floor Plan Interior images from Microsoft Clip Art , Microsoft Office, 2007,

images, and http://englishcompanion.ning.com/ . The New Teacher Dollar Store is located in the lobby near the Ballrooms. Pre-service and new teachers, including those with five years of teaching experience or less, are welcome to purchase all items for $1.00.

Our Exhibitors Area, located in the Royale Lobby, is open all day.

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Continental breakfast is located in the Opening Session area, Ballrooms A-F

Greetings from the President of MCTE, Dr. Kia Jane Richmond

On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, I am pleased to welcome you to our fall conference, Autumn Assembly 2010. I selected this year’s conference theme, Focusing the Kaleidoscope: Re-Imagining English Language Arts in Michigan, because I thought the image of the kaleidoscope would be one to which teachers could easily relate. The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of a kaleidoscope as “a constantly changing group of bright colours or coloured objects” and “anything which exhibits a succession of shifting phases” inspired me to jot this poem down:

Kaleidoscope Cranberry- and papaya-colored slivers of light Shift and bounce across the mirrored-glass, Transforming a saffron and crimson star Into a powerfully symmetrical Fractal flower.

Each individual who turns the kaleidoscope -- Risking change And movement And encounters with radiance - Benefits from the experience Of multiple reflections.

I’m hoping that this year’s conference will allow each of us to examine our lives as teachers of English Language Arts. Our students – brightly colored souls who are anything but symmetrical – are, each day, demonstrating a succession of shifting phrases. And we – English teachers who feel the pressure (and joy) in transforming students’ lives – should, each day, take time to reflect on who we are, what we do, and how we can turn the lens to allow for a new shape/pattern in our classrooms. We welcome three special guest speakers to this year’s conference: Pam Muñoz Ryan, Debbie Reese, and Carol Glynn. Each brings with her a unique set of experiences and ideas to share with teachers of all grade levels and specialties. We are grateful to these educators for traveling from

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California, Illinois, and Connecticut (respectively) to be with us today to help us focus on important issues in the teaching of English Language Arts in Michigan. Pam Muñoz Ryan is the NEA’s Author recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award, and the 2010 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award. She has written over thirty books for young people, which range from picture books for the very young to young adult novels, including Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi Leon, Riding Freedom, Paint the Wind, and her new release, The Dreamer, which has been awarded the Boston-Horn Book Honor. Pam will give our morning keynote session. Debbie Reese is a former schoolteacher and is currently a professor in University of Illinois’s American Indian Studies program. She has taught children’s literature, social studies methods, Intro to American Indian Studies, and History of American Indian Education as well as other courses at the college level. A winner of the NCTE Scholar for the Dream award in 2007, Debbie has published and presented frequently on issues related to American Indian life, and her blog, “American Indians in Children’s Literature” offers “critical perspectives of indigenous peoples in children’s and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large.” Debbie will be a featured presenter in both morning and afternoon concurrent sessions. Carol Glynn is a writer, speaker, performer, and Master Teaching Artist from Connecticut. Her book Learning on Their Feet: A Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning across the Curriculum K-8, is a comprehensive resource for body-based learning in core subjects such as Language Arts. Carol was on faculty at the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for four years, and served an actor/workshop leader and artistic director for almost a decade at the Penny Ante Theater. She will be our keynote speaker/entertainer for the luncheon session and will present a morning session as well. I hope that more than anything else you take the opportunity today to talk to each other, to exchange ideas, and to inspire one another to strive for excellence in the classroom and beyond. Each conversation, each exchange of email addresses, each sharing of web resources and books can help you to turn the kaleidoscope toward a new vision of teaching English Language Arts. We once again offer our New Teacher Dollar Store and an Exhibition Area, with author book-signing sessions and door prize drawings. Finally, thank you to the MCTE Executive Committee members for their dedication, hard work, and support in planning and executing this conference. Their names, positions, and emails are included on the next page for your reference. Also, we are grateful for the professional assistance provided by Tara Hart, Sales Manager for the Lexington Lansing Hotel, and her staff. We’re happy to be here again this year! And thanks to NMU student Alexandra (Alex) Sawyer, who designed the beautiful cover art for our program. Thank you all for joining us today. Your participation in support for MCTE is greatly appreciated.

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Kia Jane Richmond President, Michigan Council of Teachers of English Associate Professor of English – Secondary Education, Northern Michigan University

MCTE Executive Committee 2010-2011

President Kia Jane Richmond krichmon@nmu.edu President-Elect Jennifer Swisher j.swisher.carroll@gmail.com Past-President Toby Kahn-Loftus tobykahnloftus@gmail.com Vice-President David Hammontree drhammont@gmail.com Secretary Kathy Morcom morcomka@msu.edu Treasurer Ray Lawson rlawson48309@yahoo.com College Section Chair Sam Caughlan caughlan@msu.edu Secondary School Section Chair

Stasha Simon Stashasimon@gmail.com

Middle School Section Chair Dan Polleys dpolleys@chartermi.net Elementary School Section Chair

Taryn Sabo taryn1014@yahoo.com

Urban/Diversity Chair Julie Mix-Thibault j.mix@wayne.edu Editor of eMET Rita Maddox wjmaddox1@comcast.net Editor of eMET Geneva Scully gscully26@gmail.com Editor of LAJM Nancy DeFrance defrancn.GWPO3.GVSU@gvsu.edu Editor of LAJM Elizabeth Stolle stollee.GWPO3.GVSU@gvsu.edu Editor of LAJM Nancy Patterson patterna@gvsu.edu SLATE Representative Jennifer Swisher j.swisher.carroll@gmail.com MYAF liaison Kia Jane Richmond krichmon@nmu.edu MDE Representative Lynette Van Dyke VanDykeL@michigan.gov Membership Chair Dave Hammontree drhammont@gmail.com Membership Chair Gerald Browning gbrown05@baker.edu Webmaster Rob Rozema rozemar@gvsu.edu MSU Representative Megan Dreffs dreffsme@msu.edu WMU Co-Representative Lindsey Hesslau lindsey.a.hesslau@wmich.edu WMU Co-Representative Megan Emerson megan.m.emerson@wmich.edu REGIONAL COORDINATORS REG I Mary Cox cissycox@aol.com REG II open REG III Kathy Morcom morcomka@msu.edu

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REG IV Davena Jackson dymeadows@ameritech.net REG V Jodi Carlson Caler jlc_1212@yahoo.com REG VI Andrew Schoenborn aschoenborn76@gmail.com REG VII Toby Kahn-Loftus tobykahnloftus@gmail.com REG VIII Sara Matthews Kaye saramk113@gmail.com CO REG VIII Michelle Marceau

mmarceau_house@yahoo.com

REG IX Rita Maddox wjmaddox1@comcast.net REG X Toby Kahn-Loftus tobykahnloftus@gmail.com CO REG X Dan Polleys dpolleys@chartermi.net, CO REG X Stasha Simon Stashasimon@gmail.com REG XI Tom Hyslop thyslop@nmu.edu CO REG XI Lindsay Brindley brindley@eup.k12.mi.us

October 28, 2010 Kia Jane Richmond, President Kathy Morcom, Secretary Michigan Council of Teachers of English 9224 Apple Orchard Dr. 310 Harrison St. Fenton, MI 48430-9064 Marquette, MI 49855-3316 Dear Michigan Council of Teachers of English: I send greetings from the National Council of Teachers of English to you and to all those joining you at your conference on October 29, 2010! The commitment to teaching and learning you demonstrate by offering this professional development opportunity is noteworthy. Ongoing professional development for teachers is key to our mutual goal of improving the teaching and learning of the English language arts at all grade levels. Such opportunities as this conference provide ways for teachers to continue their own learning in order to better support the learning of their students. Research shows that all students can achieve at high levels when they are taught by teachers who are continuing learners, when they attend schools that are safe and supportive, and when the adults in their lives—especially their teachers—care and believe in them. As the only nationwide professional organization of English and language arts teachers, NCTE works to make the teaching of English and language arts more rewarding and more effective for all by publishing books, journals, and position statements; providing professional meetings; and providing special assistance

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to individuals and schools in responding to legislative and censorship challenges. I invite your membership in this important organization. NCTE celebrates the efforts of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English in making this conference possible as well as each participant’s contribution to the event and the development of this profession. Sincerely, Millie Davis Senior Developer, Affiliated Groups and Public Outreach

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Conference Planner: MCTE FALL CONFERENCE 2010 TIMETABLE Opening Session: BREAKFAST, AWARDS, and KEYNOTE 8:15 -10:00 in Ballrooms A-F

Session One: 10:10 – 11:00

Session Two: 11:10 – 12:00 Luncheon and Keynote 12:10 – 1:30 pm. in Ballrooms D-F

Session Three: 1:40 – 2:30 p.m.

Session Four, also Professional Meetings Scheduled: 2:40 – 3:30 p.m. An Important Note about the Excellence in Teaching Awards MCTE sponsors two Excellence in Teaching Awards. The Fries Award, first given in 1967, was named in honor of Charles Carpenter Fries, a University of Michigan Professor and an early president of MCTE. Recipients of this award have served their local communities, provided significant service on state and/or national levels, and have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of education. The Lawson Award, named after MCTE Secretary-Treasurer Ray Lawson, made its debut at the 2002 Annual Conference Luncheon and was awarded to Ray himself that year. Ray exemplifies the kind of teacher who should win the Lawson Award, a person dedicated to the classroom and the profession. Ray has been an inspiration to hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. His leadership and commitment to MCTE and English instruction is irreplaceable and extraordinary. Nominations for these awards can be made by educators, parents, or students, provided the nominee is an active member of MCTE, whose vocation is or has been the teaching of English or Language Arts, K-12. The Fries Award can be presented to any member of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English. By sponsoring these awards, MCTE hopes not only to encourage quality teaching and involvement in the profession but also to acknowledge those teachers who are making a difference in education in Michigan.

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MCTE FALL CONFERENCE 2010 TIMETABLE BREAKFAST, AWARDS, and KEYNOTE 8:15-10:00

SESSION 1 10:10 – 11:00

SESSION 2 11:10 – 12:00

LUNCHEON and KEYNOTE 12:10 – 1:30 pm.

SESSION 3 1:40 – 2:30 p.m.

SESSION 4 2:40 – 3:30 p.m.

Session Room Academic Level

Name Title Description

Breakfast, Awards, Keynote

Ballrooms A,B,C,D,E,F

ALL Pam Muñoz Ryan

Beginnings, Belongings, and My Journey with Books.

Pam Muñoz Ryan is the NEA’s Author recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award, and the 2010 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award. She has written over thirty books for young people – these range from picture books for the very young to young adult novels, including: ESPERANZA RISING, BECOMING NAOMI LEÓN, RIDING FREEDOM, PAINT THE WIND, and her new release, THE DREAMER which has been awarded the Boston-Horn Book Honor.

Session Room Academic

Level Name Title Description

1 ROYALE LOBBY – TABLES IN FOYER NEXT TO BALLROOM F

ALL Pam Muñoz Ryan

Book signing Pam Muñoz Ryan will be signing her books which are available for sale at the exhibit area.

1 Aurora

Coll/Univ Erik Bean, Davenport University

Classic Magazines and Nonfiction/Essay Writing: Hands-On Techniques to Increase Critical Thinking

Using classic (older) magazines, participants will experience as a student experiences the step-by-step process for conducting a traditional classroom group learning activity that reinforces

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thesis defense. This presentation demonstrates how classic magazines provide a time-capsule of information that is intriguing, tactile, and can be used for up to a 75-minute interactive lesson. Participants will be work in teams to use classic magazines to defend a Michigan- related thesis; the winning team will receive a prize. Following the activity, participants will view a six- minute Michigan-focused film produced this summer by Christopher Coppola's Project Accessible Hollywood Motown Film Festival.

1 Reo Pre-K, Elem

Karen Selby, University of Detroit Mercy

Using Oral Personal Narratives in the Teaching of Writing: Adapting the Lucy Calkins Method for Pre-K and Elementary Writers

Lucy Calkins' method of personal narrative can be adapted through the use of oral discussion for students in pre-K and elementary school settings. This presentation features interactive discussion and shared examples of students' work. Session leaders invite participants to develop strategies and a clear plan for using oral discussion to enhance learning and reflective writing with their own student writers

1 Packard

Coll/Univ Robert DeChambeau, Northern Michigan University

Court Cases in the College Composition Classroom: The Real Deal;

A mock trial conducted in the college composition classroom, when done correctly, provides students with an opportunity to develop technical writing skills as well as skills in narrative and descriptive writing. Learn how to run a mock trial in your classroom and lead students through the following activities: drafting the narrative and deciding what crimes will be involved, researching applicable case law, drafting opening and closing arguments and questions to pose to witnesses. I will present my approach to holding court proceedings in the classroom and ask session attendees to try out some of the activities they can use in their own writing classes.

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1 Ballroom A

HS/Alt Dan Baker, Climax Scotts Alternative High School

An 'Alternative' Path to Literacy: Teaching Language Arts at an Alternative High School.

This presentation focuses on the challenge of designing language arts curriculum for high school students with attendance, behavior, or achievement problems in school and/or personal or social problems out of school. This presenter focuses on some potentially rewarding lessons/strategies that are practical yet rigorous and socially relevant. Units such as “Utopia/Dystopia: The Future & the Individual’s Role in Society,” and "Popular Music & Music Videos from the 80s" will be shared. Participants will be provided with several handouts, and time will be provided for questions at the end of the presentation.

1 Ballroom B

Pre-K, Elem, MS

Carol Glynn

Learning on Their Feet: Language Arts through Kinesthetic Learning

Students don’t need to sit in a chair to learn. This idea packed workshop will provide teachers with scores of practical curriculum connected dramatic and kinesthetic exercises to help students learn required Language Arts lessons using their whole bodies. Each teacher will leave with time-tested structures, and concrete ideas, as well as renewed motivation to stretch their teaching techniques to reach their more challenging active students.

1 Ballroom C

MS Salvadore Barrientes, Jr., Scarlett Middle School, Ann Arbor Public Schools

Middle School Boys, Pop Culture & Technology: Making Reading & Writing Relevant

In today’s information-overloaded, instant gratification age, our pre-adolescent boys need us to keep them stimulated and interested about ELA, while at the same time challenging them to think critically about Language Arts and Communication. In this interactive workshop we will explore how we can infuse iTunes, YouTube, and Interactive Educational Websites into our curriculum as a means of keeping our students thinking critically about relevant issues, while keeping in step with GLCEs.

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1 Ballroom D

K-12 Laura Schiller, Oakland Schools

Unpacking the Common Core State Standards Initiative

The Common Core State Standards represent the biggest change in public education in the past 100 years. Learn the most up-to-date information regarding these standards and their implications for curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Join us as we unpack the new Common Core State Standards for English/language arts grades K-12.

1 Ballroom E

MS Susan Griffith, Central Michigan University, and Janelle Woida-LaMirand, White Pine Middle School, Saginaw Township

Go with the Flow: Writing Science Fiction

“Go with the Flow,” a unit based on student voice, connects the study of ocean currents with writing to create narratives that combine both fact and fiction. Lesson plans for both language arts and science will be presented side-by-side to highlight key factors in successful teacher collaboration and to show how the unit unfolded in both the science and language arts middle school classrooms. Participants will try out a strategy for developing inquiry questions, review a method for building a scientific word bank, and apply a rubric created especially for this unit to essays written by eighth graders in Ms. Woida-La Mirand’s class.

1 Ballroom F HS Kiley Burger, Central Michigan University, and Jon Miller, Central Michigan University

Using Google Documents to Get Students Writing

How do you make writing more interesting and interactive for students? Google Documents make the writing process more interactive for students and teachers alike, and it’s free! All stages of the writing process can be completed and saved directly on Google Docs and are accessible from any computer with Internet access. This session will focus on learning how to use and incorporate Google Documents in a classroom setting through hands on experience.

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Session Room Academic Level

Name Title Description

2 Aurora

HS Andy Schoenborn, Mt. Pleasant High School

Writing Into Drama Drama is meant to be seen, heard, and experienced. Using writing to learn, scene imagery, music, and lyrics as poetry we can immerse and engage our students in productions from Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Bard himself. Students can make meaningful connections, read with deeper understanding, and use writing to enter the minds of the characters and the worlds they inhabit.

2 Reo HS Kelly Irish and Jennifer Haberling

How to Say It Better: Igniting Students’ Excitement about Writing

English should be the class students talk about over lunch -- the one they are excited to come to each day. This session will include lessons, reproducibles, and activities to engage your students in writing activities that will use classic texts in contemporary conversations. We will review different genres of writing including the research paper, the persuasive essay, the narrative essay and even the dreaded literary analysis. Participants will leave with ready to use ideas that can be implemented into the classroom tomorrow.

2 Packard

Pre-K, Elem, MS

Michelle Marceau; Caledonia Community Schools // Richard Chiamulera, Northern Michigan University

Growing Small Treasures into Strong and Powerful Memories; //Lessons from Ecuador: Teaching Literacy Skills to Speakers of Languages Other than English

This presentation is inspired by authors such as Katie Wood Ray, Shelly Harwayne, Barry Lane, Lynne R. Dorfman and Rose Capelli with the idea that mentor texts can show us how to begin with a small memory and craft it to grow strong in not only our hearts, but those of others who read our words as well.//Drawing from a recent volunteer teaching experience in Ecuador, this presenter will share strategies and techniques for teaching English Language Arts to K-8 students for whom English is a second language. Participants will write a reflection comparing and contrasting their own experiences teaching literacy skills with those of the presenter. Session attendees will walk away with handouts and plans for helping ESL students in their own classes.

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2 Ballroom A

Pre-K, Elem

Claudette Daniels, Pierre Toussaint Academy

The Benefits of Poetry in an Elementary Classroom

Poetry is the golden thread which should be woven throughout each educational day. Participants will experience the academic and social benefits of daily infusion of poetry. Claudette Daniels is a dynamic instructor, who uses poetry as a foundation to cultivate a classroom community. She will demonstrate how poetry can be used to foster a love for reading and writing, which will ultimately empower students to become active agents of social change. This demonstration will help teachers use literature to support students as they construct personal meaning from texts. Participants will leave awakened with strategies to weave poetry into their classroom communities.

2 Ballroom B

HS, Alt Daria Plumb, Riverside Academy, Dundee Community Schools

Commando Classics: Helping Teens Understand (and Maybe Even Enjoy) Classic Literature

When working with teens who are reluctant to read the classics, you need to employ covert, commando tactics; in other words you need to sneak in, hit 'em with the entire plot of the story, and get out before they realize what happened. In this presentation I will discuss how I blend non-traditional materials (graphic novels, picture books, films, television shows, summaries, music, artwork, etc.) with more traditional English class fare in order to teach classic literature to my alternative high school students. I will highlight easy-to-adapt tips and strategies, such as how to: • Make connections between classic literature and pop culture • Utilize visual media • Select nontraditional supplemental materials • Incorporate folk literature • Create units/text sets I will also provide a variety of resources and materials that teachers can use to become “commando teachers”.

2 Ballroom C

ALL Debbie Reese

Making Informed Choices: American Indians in Children's and Young Adult Literature

FEATURED SESSION: This session will feature a discussion of depictions of American Indians in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

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2 Ballroom D

K-12 Laura Schiller, Oakland Schools

Unpacking the Common Core State Standards Initiative

The Common Core State Standards represent the biggest change in public education in the past 100 years. Learn the most up to date information regarding these standards and their implications for Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction. Join us as we unpack the new Common Core State Standards for English/language arts grades K-12.

2 Ballroom E

HS Cynthia Stephens, Jared W. Finney High School

Tools for the Reluctant Writer

This session will focus on strategies and tools to use in the middle/high school English classroom that engage the reluctant writer. Using research from the 2010 "Writing to Read" report and experience from an urban teacher's perspective, participants will leave this session with practical tools to facilitate a safe and enlightening environment in which students can engage in collaborative learning.

2 Ballroom F

MS Beth Nazario, Emerson School

Diversity and Differentiation with Graphic Novels

The popularity of graphic novels has increased exponentially recently, and many titles are useful for the classroom. This presentation will go over several titles that may help bring new perspectives to your curriculum. We will discuss creating content and activities dealing with effective communication, empathy, reading comprehension, inferential learning, and critical thinking. Activities and coursework are geared towards many different activities such as skits, written assessments, artistic expression, movement, and the natural world.

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Session Room Academic Level

Name Title Description

Luncheon Ballrooms D,E,F

ALL Carol Glynn

Breaking Through to Learning: Effective Kinesthetic Teaching, Without Losing Your Mind

Look up synonyms for the word ‘teach’ and you will find instruct, edify, lecture, and inculcate. Look up synonyms for the word ‘play’ and you will find engage, amuse, absorb, and cooperate. Carol Glynn will joyfully help break through perceived limitations of effective teaching to focus directly on playful, dramatic and kinesthetic strategies to engage with students while learning required curricula, without consuming all your time or your sanity

Session Room Academic

Level Name Title Description

3 Aurora

MS/HS Amy Kilbridge, Ingham Intermediate School District

Writing and Learning: A Toolkit for Content Area Writing

Amy Kilbridge and Theron Blakeslee, Ingham ISD Content Consultants, have created a toolkit of strategies for writing in the content areas. During the presentation, teachers will have the chance to try the strategies themselves and learn to teach them effectively to students. The philosophy behind the toolkit is that teachers can use writing in their classrooms to help students absorb content, demonstrate understanding of content, construct meaning, communicate information, ask questions and clarify thinking. Participants in the session will be given a copy of the writing toolkit, including a packet of resources so that they will be ready to try the strategies when they get back to their classrooms.

3 Reo ALL Pam Muñoz Ryan

Momentum Is More Important Than Inspiration:

Author, Pam Muñoz Ryan, shares how her stories move forward and discusses research and writing process. Novels: ESPERANZA RISING, RIDING FREEDOM, BECOMING NAOMI LEON, PAINT THE WIND, and THE DREAMER - based on the childhood of poet, Pablo Neruda.

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3 Packard

Coll/Univ Matt Mangan, EMU and Salem High School , Plymouth Michigan // Kim M. Davis, Saginaw Valley University

Facebook: A Tool For 21st Century Literacy// More than Reflections: Using Blogs as Interactive Tools to Teach Writing Across the Disciplines, Audience, and Primary Research

Students can use social networking sites, such as Facebook, to become "literate" for their future communities. We are at a point where traditional teaching practices may not suffice to guide students towards literacy in the twenty-first century. I will demonstrate how multi-voiced journals incorporated into Facebook can be an invaluable teaching method. I will also describe the intended audience, how to use it, why to, and the role of the teacher in the process.// Blogs can be used for more than journaling and responses. This session will include a discussion of how they can be used in the writing classroom: 1.) to promote students’ critical thinking about sociocultural issues and the audiences impacted by those issues, 2.) to increase their understanding of how writing differs across disciplines, and 3.) to teach students how to conduct primary research.

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Ballroom A

MS Lois Atkins, Dorothy Grotenhuis, and Rebecca Hoekstra, all from Riley Street Middle School, Hudsonville Public Schools

Connecting Content through Reading and Writing

How do you engage an 8th grade student into learning about the Civil War? By connecting content areas in the reading and writing process. Discover how the history and English teachers at Riley Street Middle School are captivating students in the classroom while providing a life-long learning experience.

3 Ballroom B

MS, HS, Coll/Univ

Julie Mix-Thibault, Wayne State University, and Shenika Hankerson, Wayne State University

On Students’ Own Turf: Inventing Strategies for Teaching Rhetorical Analysis for Critical Reading and Writing, Building on Students’ Media-Visual Oriented Worlds

The concept of rhetorical analysis may be a daunting one for many students to understand, because it is new to them. To address the issue, we will use media selections and visual/sensory imagery (via pictures and objects) that speak to the elements of rhetorical analysis and involve students in experiencing the elements of rhetorical analysis (discernment of audience preferences, tone, context/situation, purpose/aim, ethos/logos/pathos, and others). Participants will learn how the elements are internalized “painlessly” and profoundly. Thereafter, we will suggest how students can articulate and apply the elements in a cogent way.

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3 Ballroom C

ALL Debbie Reese

Making Informed Choices: American Indians in Children's and Young Adult Literature

FEATURED SESSION: This session will feature a discussion of depictions of American Indians in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

3 Ballroom D

HS Danielle Filipiak, University Prep High School, and Wendie Holeman, Henry Ford Academy-School for Creative Studies -- with Keith Greene and Jeffrey Walker.

Raise Your Voice: Using Critical Lenses to Breathe New Life into Abandoned Spaces

In this session, two urban educators share strategies for employing critical pedagogy in the classroom, where youth speak back to and problematize texts like Beowulf, the media and their communities. This presentation highlights a photojournalism project students completed that captured issues such as homelessness, blight, violence, health, food and education in Detroit, where they used critical lenses in an attempt to make sense of and reclaim their abandoned and harshly stereotyped community.

3 Ballroom E

Coll/Univ Marsha Millikin, Saginaw Valley State University

(Dis)Lodging Basic Writer’s Paralysis: Contesting Space, Contested Knowledge in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

College-level writing assignments are often like Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” with respect to content, arrangement, style, and other conventions. This presentation examines student/instructor rhetorics enacted as the instructor “teaches” the rhetorical triangle, rhetorical appeals, and the concepts of audience, purpose, and context. In this workshop participants will be asked to examine the “Letter’s” 14th paragraph and to analyze the logos, pathos, and ethos as well as King’s audience, purpose, and context.

3 Ballroom F

ALL Shannon Zoet, Michigan Campus Compact, and Faye Schuett, Schoolcraft College

Michigan Campus Compact: Academic Service Learning

Academic Service Learning links the classroom experience to community engagement and encourages students to make a difference in the world while learning. This interactive session demonstrates how communication, critical thinking and writing skills are advanced through service and shares a “Trash Walk & Talk” exercise to introduce ASL learning to students. Speakers will share educational resources at Michigan Campus Compact, a coalition of 42 state colleges/ universities building civic engagement into campus/ academic life.

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Session Room Academic

Level Name Title Description

4 ROYALE LOBBY – TABLES IN FOYER NEXT TO BALLROOM F

ALL Carol Glynn

Book signing Carol Glynn will sign copies of her book Learning on Their Feet: A Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning across the Curriculum K-8.

4 Aurora

Coll/Univ Gail Ryder, Siena Heights University

Directions for the Imagination: Multiple Intelligences Meets Grammar

Get students excited about grammar! This interactive presentation involves activities and exercises designed to help students use grammatical structures more effectively in their writing. We will explore the rich intersection of Gardner's work on multiple intelligences and Harry Noden's book Image Grammar. Attendees will participate in several of the exercises and receive links to additional resources.

4 Reo HS Elizabeth Nelson, Greenville Public Schools

Getting Them into Books!: Starting a High School Literacy Program to Help At-risk Learners

High school students are required to read more and at higher levels than ever before with the new ELA curriculum. This presentation will focus on how to start and sustain a literacy program in your high school to help meet the needs of at-risk learners. In this session, you will hear how I initiated a literacy program that raised scores, identified at-risk readers, provided teachers with strategies, and got high school non-readers into books.

4 Packard

HS Rosie Nedry, Chippewa Hills Mosaic School

Imagination Unchained! Reluctant writers with little or untapped imagination may blossom in the guise of an inanimate object. Students who routinely respond to prompts with, “I don’t know what to write” are encouraged to “become the object” and develop a narrative following short story guidelines. Participants in this session will review models of the activity, receive a beginning list of topics, and have an opportunity to express their creative

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abilities with sample writing. While used for grades 9-12, this activity could be adapted for all grade levels.

4 Ballroom A

MS Dana VanderLugt, Baldwin Street Middle School, Hudsonville Public Schools (With Jen Haberling and Lois Atkins)

Workshop Wonders and Worries in the Secondary Classroom

Once upon a time, each student in our classes read from the same novel, dissected the same passages, and busied themselves with the same activities. But this fall, the ELA department in our two middle schools began to make the shift in our curriculum from large-group instruction and class novels to workshop-focused, individualized instruction. Today, we’ll discuss how this change in philosophy has changed the landscape of our reading and writing curriculum -- and the knowledge we have gleaned about conferring, assessment, scheduling, and management. We’ll share what has worked and what has not -- and also invite session attendees to join us in that conversation. Attendees will leave with resources and a reading list that has been valuable to us as we’ve embarked on this pedagogical journey.

4 Ballroom B

HS Jeff Blakeslee, Canton High School

Creative Ideas and Technology in the Secondary English Classroom

This presenter will give a plethora of practical PBL and Universal Design for Learning ideas to reach secondary students. If you want creative ideas and tehniques to take back to your classroom on Monday, come to this session! Get some truly off-the-wall lessons that students talk about years after they have graduated.

4 Ballroom C

Coll/Univ Michigan Writing Projects – Laura Roop, University of Michigan; // Michigan Conference on English Education – Nancy Joseph, Oakland University

MWP – Meeting; // MCEE - Meeting

Professional meetings: MWP – This meeting, focused on updating and sharing, is open to site leaders and teacher-consultants from the 11 NWP sites in Michigan.// MCEE - Michigan Conference on English Education invites interested educators to discuss recent curricular and policy issues and plan for the year.

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4 Ballroom D Elem May Anna Kruch, Past President, MCTE, 35-year educator

Nurturing Critical Learning in Science: Doodle Writing and the Water Cycle

Presenter will lead participants through a complete writing workshop lesson via the 5 Es model: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate. Handouts include all related workshop materials along with a list of URLs for access to Michigan Science GLCEs, MDE’s Writing Across the Curriculum in Science document, ELA/Literacy K-2 Core Common Standards Alignment with Michigan GLCE (June 2010). The workshop will conclude with success stories and Q & A.

4 Ballroom E

MS/HS Mike Wilseck, Central Michigan University // Amanda Paulus, Northern Michigan University

Reading, 'Riting...and Racquetball?// Re-Writing the Classics-The Twenty Minute Play

Now that there is a focus of using writing across the curriculum (since writing has been proven to enhance student learning, this presenter will show how writing can be used in what most people deem to be the least academic class of all...the physical education class. Writing can be used to do just that in a class that is usually regarded as purely "hands-on" and physical. The presenter will discuss ways to help students to use writing to increase learning in the physical education classroom.////Session attendees will be exposed to a lesson plan involving the re-writing of a classic piece of literature, specifically The Crucible, by students. This lesson plan has broad application throughout the English/Language Arts field since it combines multiple intelligences and asks students to get to the heart of the action, conflict and resonating themes in order to condense a play to twenty minutes.

4 Ballroom F HS Iman Ismail, Fordson High School, Dearborn Public Schools

Recycled Stories: Motivating Struggling Writers through Mentor Texts

This presentation focuses on how mentor texts can be used to motivate struggling writers to view texts from a critical perspective. Excerpts from W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, along with children’s books such as Dear

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Mr. Blueberry, Fortunately, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See will be used as participants engage in an interactive quick write and pair-share writing letter learning experience. Teachers will leave this session with specific strategies to use in their own writing classrooms.

THANKS TO ALL OUR PRESENTERS AND SPEAKERS FOR MAKING THIS AN ENGAGING AND REWARDING MCTE CONFERENCE!

NOTE: Please be sure to turn in your evaluation form. This feedback is helpful for both reflection and future planning.

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2010 Toby Kahn-Loftus 2009 Mary Anna Kruch 2008 Fred Barton 2007 Fred Barton

Michigan Council of Teachers of English - Past Presidents

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2006 Maureen Baker 1965 James DeWitt* 2005 Jill VanAntwerp 1964 Annette Wonnberger 2004 Susan Steffel 1963 Evelyn Burke* 2003 Julia Reynolds 1962 Charles Hohner* 2002 Gregory Shafer 1961 V. Erie Leichty* 2001 Ron Iwankovitsch 1960 Dorthy Sonke* 2000 Mary Harmon 1959 Thelma McAndless* 1999 Rita E. Paye 1958 Neil Ringle 1998 Diana Mitchell 1957 Robert Freier* 1997 Mary C. Cox 1956 Robert Limpus* 1996 Marilyn Wilson 1955 Carlton Wells* 1995 Barbara Rebbeck 1954 Mary Swan* 1994 Gary Christensen 1953 Helen Hanlon* 1993 Ellen Brinkley 1952 George Sanders* 1992 Rosetta Dickey Bonita Wentland* 1991 Basil A. Clark 1951 Mildred Webster* 1990 Patricia J. Cianciolo 1950 Ruth Barns* 1989 Barbara A. Quirk 1948 & 1949 Cari Wonnberger* 1988 Shirley Henry 1946 & 1947 Eva Marie Van Houten* 1987 Jean E. Brown 1942 to 1945 A.K. Stephens* 1986 John Dinan 1940 & 1941 John Weimer* 1985 Mary Ellen Van Camp 1938 & 1939 Mentor Williams* 1984 Ronald Kar 1936 & 1937 C.D. Thorpe* 1983 Sheila Fitzgerald 1935 Karolena M. Fox* 1982 Robert Root Jr. 1934 Louis Bredvold* 1981 Susan Tchudi 1933 Robert Grandville* 1980 Mike LoPresto 1932 Marquis E. Shattuck* 1979 Ladene Schoen 1931 Floyd Whitner* 1978 John E. Fox* 1930 A. L. Hegener* 1977 Rollin Douma 1929 Russell Sharpe* 1976 Kathleen Drzick 1928 Norma Solve* 1975 Michael Lamb* 1927 Ruth McPhail* 1974 Stephen Tchudi 1925 & 1926 Charles C. Fries* 1973 Delores Minor 1924 George Starr Laser* 1972 Jean Malmstrom 1971 Mary Campbell* 1970 Frank Ross 1969 Stephen Dunning* 1968 V. Marie Taylor * 1967 Henry Maloney 1966 William Butt* * deceased 2010 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award 2009 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award

Michigan Council of Teachers of English

NCTE Affiliate Awards

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2009 NCTE Affiliate Website Award 2009 NCTE Affiliate News Letter Award for our eMET: “The Michigan English Teacher” 2008 NCTE Affiliate Journal Award for LAJM’s issue, “Digital Technology,” Fall/Winter 2007/2008 2008 NCTE Fund Teachers for the Dream Affiliate Award 2008 NCTE Leadership Development Award* 2008 NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award* 2006 NCTE Fund Teachers of the Dream Affiliate Award 2005 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award 2005 NCTE Fund Teachers of the Dream Affiliate Award 2004 NCTE Affiliate Newsletter Award 2003 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award 2003 NCTE Membership Recruitment Award 2003 NCTE Leadership Development Award 2003 NCTE High School Teacher of the Year Award 2003 NCTE Affiliate Newsletter Award Honorable Mention 2003 NCTE Fund Teachers of the Dream Affiliate Award 2002 NCTE Fund Teachers of the Dream Affiliate Award 2002 NCTE Affiliate Multicultural Program Award for LAJM’s issue, “Diversity, ” Spring 2002 2001 Membership Award — Largest Number of New NCTE Members Recruited 2001 NCTE Fund Teachers of the Dream Affiliate Award 2000 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award 2000 Membership Award — Largest Number of New NCTE Members Recruited 1998 Membership Award — Largest Number of New NCTE Members Recruited 1997 NCTE Affiliate Journal Award — Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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NCTE Achievement Awards Program, 2010

2010 State of Michigan NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing Winners NCTE State Coordinator: Julie Mix-Thibault, j.mix@wayne.edu

High School Student Teacher

Berkley High School Nicole Lieberman Natalie Taylor Dexter High School Maggie Grundler Debora Marsh Divine Child High School

Kali Hankerd and Lindsay Weiss

Kay Campagnoli

Edwardsburg High School

Madeline Smous Lisa Emanaker

Herbert Henry Dow High School

Liam Zanyk-McLean Mark Pickering

Interlochen Arts Academy

Benjamin Barg Karen Libby

Lahser High School Emily Bodden and Sarah Dugas

Maggy Higgins

Marian High School Rachel Girty Mary Jane Samberg Mercy High School Shannon Carpenter Steve Morgan Midland High School

Gala Klotz, Katherine Van Bebber, and Lisa Warner

Kelly Murphy

Northville High School

Vivian Abraham and Erin Donohoe

Julie Jensen

Pioneer High School Michael Huang and Jeffrey Menk

Kathy Arden

Seaholm High School

Natalie Collins Kyle Hall

St. Joseph High School

Colby Wittman Joyce Hunter

Wylie E. Groves High School

Marie Lhota and Jennifer Shi

Susan Mundy

NCTE Promising Young Writers Program

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Michigan’s Winners for 2010

NCTE State Coordinator: April Baker-Bell, adbk80@aol.com Middle School Student Teacher Detroit Country Day School: Helena Chen Charles Duggan Hillside Middle School Kyra Dahring Melissa Ziegler

OTHER AWARDS

Michigan’s NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award Nominee -- Kenneth Winter Congratulations to Kenneth Winter, nominated by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, for the NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award, which is given to honor individuals, groups, or institutions that merit recognition for advancing the cause of intellectual freedom. Kenneth Winter is a veteran journalist and adjunct faculty member at North Central Michigan College. Kenneth shares his expertise in journalism and passion for the First Amendment rights of all writers with teachers and students across the state of Michigan. MCTE’s Creative Writing Teacher of the Year – Theresa (Terry) Petrongelli Congratulations to Theresa (Terry) Petrongelli, English teacher from Harrison High School, who was awarded the “Creative Writing Teacher of the Year” by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English. This award was presented to Terry at the 48th Michigan Youth Arts Festival Educators of the Year banquet, held at WMU in Kalamazoo. She is also listed as MCTE’s High School Teacher of Excellence for 2010.

Note: If you or someone you know is selected as a recipient of an educational award, please let an MCTE executive board member know. We want to celebrate your successes!

Many Thanks to our Donors

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The following groups and businesses have generously supported the Michigan Council of Teachers of English and Fall Conference Participants:

NMU English Department and NMU School of Education

Williamston Greenhouse, Najy El Haddad, Williamston, Michigan

Trophies, Awards, Plaques, etc. Made in Michigan. Shipped Worldwide.

Cornucopia Books 99 Wolfe Lane, Suite 4,

Ortonville, Michigan 48462 248-627-2626 Phone 248-627-7528 Fax

cornucopiabooks@hotmail.com

Cornucopia Books, Cam Manilla & Janice Smith

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Red Cedar Writing Project, Top-of-the-Mitt Satellite, MSU

Lansing Mall 5132 W. Saginaw Hwy 245 Lansing, Michigan 48917 Elaine Brockhaus

UNITED ART AND EDUCATION

P.O. Box 9219 Fort Wayne, IN 46899-9219

Jessica Saddington Schuler Books & Music

2820 Towne Center Blvd, Lansing, Michigan 48912 Whitney Spotts, Promotions

Much gratitude especially to MARY ANNA KRUCH and JENNIFER SWISHER-CARROLL for donating various autographed books and gathering door-prize donations. Also thanks to David Hammontree for working with exhibitors. Many thanks to TOBY KAHN-LOFTUS for organizing the New Teacher Dollar Store.

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Tuesday Books- Justine Daily, Beth Phelps, & Theresa Bolish Grossman

Williamston, Michigan

Wayne State University’s

Exhibitors

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Michigan Virtual University University Corporate Research Park 3101 Technology Blvd., Suite G Lansing, Michigan 48910-8546 517.336.7733 http://www.mivu.org/

Cornucopia Books 99 Wolfe Lane, Suite 4, Ortonville, Michigan 48462

248-627-2626 Phone 248-627-7528 Fax cornucopiabooks@hotmail.com

Carrying all of the latest professional texts, as well as literature, and poetry selections -- including the books of speakers Pam Muñoz Ryan and Carol Glynn.

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Conference Notes