Gretchen,
       The last time I taught the minicourse--a couple of years ago when the
conference was here at Raritan--most of the 20 + teachers were from the
middle level and were taking the class for graduate credit.  A few were from
high school and fewer from college.  The course usually focuses on
strategies for helping students with the basics: identifying passive vs.
active verbs, using verbs effectively, tag questions to identify fragments,
the slots in noun phrases, etc.  The teachers make it clear they want nuts
and bolts, and that's what we try to provide.

Brock

-----Original Message-----
From: Gretchen Lee
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 4/28/01 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: ATEG's Annual Conference and Minicourse

In a message dated 4/28/2001 6:14:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Language arts teachers and
 professors will focus on the question of what grammar is needed in
their
 classrooms and then on how to convey it to their students. >>

Brock,

What is the focus level of the minicourse?  In other words, most of the
grammar workshops that I have taken focus mostly on late high school and
college writers.  Outside of networking and the fun of getting to know
all of
you on a personal level, will there be much for us on the middle school
level?

I got funding for NCTE next fall, and I've been invited to Japan to
present
in August.  I'll have to do some fast talking to get any more funds.
Any
specifics you can send me would be wonderful.  Our budget committee
meets
next Wednesday.

Thanks,
Gretchen in San Jose
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