Is a draft of this scope and sequence available on the ATEG web site?
Jan


On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Craig Hancock wrote:

> Phil,
>     Again, I have nothing against a group that might take on NCTE
> directly.  Our Scope and Sequence project will have an official
> position very different from NCTE's.  >
>     I have read David's book and take issue with his characterising of
> linguistic grammars as simply theoretical.  Many linguists think of
> themselves as functionalists, and many are hard at work on influencing
> and shaping public grammar.  At the moment, this is bearing fruit in
> England and Australia. A group of linguists have always been deeply
> active in ATEG, at times against their own self-interest.
>    One of the joys of my own public education was sentence diagramming,
> which was given to me in what we used to call Junior High. I didn't
> mean to discount the value of older approaches. But there is also a
> rich tradition in teaching writing that has evolved since the sixties,
> and it has to be respected in our attempts to reintegrate grammar into
> the mainstream. Luckily, the understanding is now here to do just that.
> It doesn't have to be an either/or choice, and an attack on modern
> approaches may end up alienating potential allies.
>     But lets agree to disagree when we need to.  I am advocating a very
> rich exploration of language in the public schools.  There's much in
> traditional grammar that we can preserve in the process.  It should be
> a rich and open conversation. Everyone in ATEG who wants to should
> have a look at the Scope and Sequence project while still in draft
> form.  It should be something we are all proud of.
> 
> Craig
> 

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