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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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