Archive of Presenter Materials for 2016 Conference: Close to Home

Friday, October 21, 2016

Breakout Session A: Friday 8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m.

• A2:  Megan Senjanin: The Power of Place
• A4: Tamara Jaffe‐Notier, Carol Friedman: The Case for Reparations
• A5:  Angelo Bonadonna, Norman Boyer, Carol Medrano: Pages v. Assignments

9:00 a.m. ‐ Continental Breakfast, Business Meeting

• Keynote:  Steve Zemelman, Katy Smith: Reading, Writing, and Action–Yes, College and Career Ready But Also Citizen Ready

Workshop Session 1: Friday, 10:30 a.m. ‐ 11:55 a.m.

Breakout Session B: Friday, 10:30 a.m. ‐ 11:20 a.m.

• B3:  Rick De Leon: Online Close Reading and Authentic Discussion using Google Docs
• B4:  Rachel Shore, Josh Piper: Shakespeare to Social Media, and Beyond

Breakout Session C: Friday, 11:30 a.m. ‐ 12:20 a.m.

• C2: Amanda Cardenas, Kyle Etheridge: Evolving the SCOPE of Literacy
• C3: Jessica LaFontaine,Bethany Costello‐Stebelton: Finding Authenticity in Standardization

12:30 p.m. Friday Lunch with the Author of the Year, Melanie Benjamin ‐ Redbird D

Breakout Session D: Friday, 2:00 p.m. ‐ 2:50 p.m.

• D3: Melissa Cunningham: Grammar Reasons: 5 Ways to Make Grammar Meaningful
• D7: Jeanette Gagliardi:  Empowering Writers with Strategies to Increase Elaboration

3:00 p.m. Featured Speaker Bill Curtin ‐ Redbird D (Coffee & Cookies served)

Workshop Session 2: Friday, 4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:25 p.m.

• W2: Carolyn Walter, Elizabeth Kahn, Tom McCann: Real Issues, Real Interest

Breakout Session E: Friday, 4:30 p.m. ‐ 5:20 p.m.

• E2: Kimberly Gwizdala, Jessica Noble, Jennifer Shackleton: Rhetoric for All: Teaching Rhetorical Analysis in the High School Classroom

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Breakout Session F: Saturday, 9:00 a.m. ‐ 9:50 a.m.

• F1: Meghan Kerr, Jeanne Deichmueller: Theorizing in the Middle
• F3: Alicia White, Jessica Burke, Jeramie Okoh, Alexis Phares, Maggie Wallace: Connecting to Home through Artifactual Literacies Projects
• F5: Richard Martin, Becky Holdsworth: Promoting a School‐wide Writing Environment through Writing Centers

Breakout Session G: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. ‐ 10:50 a.m.

• G1: Paul Krogmeier: New Strategies for Close Reading

Breakout Session H: Saturday, 11:00 a.m. ‐ 11:50 a.m.

12:00 noon ‐ President’s Lunch with Keynote Speaker Naomi Davis

• Keynote: B.I.G.: A Global Green Practices Collective

Workshop Session 3: Saturday, 1:30 p.m. ‐ 2:55 p.m.

• W9: James Walter Doyle: Get Your Students What They Need!

Breakout Session I: Saturday, 3:00 p.m. ‐ 3:50 p.m.

• I2: Sean Hackney: The Composition Classroom: Assessing Academic Writing and Webtexts in a Way That Honors the Process of Writing
• I4: Carrie Thomas, Jamie Zarnstorff:  25 Strategies in 50 Minutes