Brock,
I have just searched around the NCTE website, but I
could not find a link to the convention next year in
Baltimore. As a member, I probably have this
information somewhere in my "backfiles" but cannot
find it now. Do you know if there is any information
online, such as the theme, submission forms, place?
I hope to be able to go to this conference (finally
within a realistic travel radius), preferably as a
presenter, preferably on a grammar-related topic, so
if anybody out there has any suggestions, I'd love to
hear them.
Thanks,
Helene
--- "Haussamen, Brock" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear ATEGers,
>
> The NCTE convention was held this year in Milwaukee
> the weekend before last.
> ATEG's session was scheduled at a miserable
> time--4:45 pm on Saturday--and
> yet about 40 people showed up for a discussion on
> "Grammar Education for
> Teachers and Students." I spoke about ATEG and the
> position of grammar in
> the current English mainstream, and then we all
> discussed approaches to and
> difficulties with teaching grammar. I am grateful
> to Jeff Glauner for
> helping with discussion. Jeff's roundtable on
> grammar the previous day was
> heavily attended. But aside from one other
> roundtable and a session someone
> told me about on "Grammar with Humor" (!), we were
> the only sessions on
> grammar out of several hundred programs.
>
> Next year's NCTE convention will be held in
> Baltimore, on their usual
> weekend, the one before Thanksgiving. The deadline
> for convention proposals
> is January 19; information can be found at ncte.org.
> I encourage ATEG
> members to consider grammar presentations. After
> attending this convention,
> I have a better sense of the tensions between the
> NCTE program and grammar,
> ones that Martha Kolln has been expressing for years
> (but you have to be
> there, and read the literature, to really get it).
> In brief, grammar is
> perceived as contrary to encouraging students to
> write fluently, and
> contrary to cultural diversity. Program proposals
> that take an integrative
> approach on these two fronts might stand a chance.
> Some approaches or
> topics you might consider if you are interested in
> offering a grammar
> program include: Showing students how to discover
> the rules of grammar for
> themselves; Using grammar in the classroom to
> appreciate diverse
> dialects/languages; Using grammar to help students
> read
> poetry/Shakespeare/literature; Options for
> Revisions. I and Martha and
> others will be proposing a session on our 3S report
> as a work-in-progress.
>
> Brock Haussamen
>
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