12/14/18- Sipp, Dennis, Bishop, Wassom
1) MAP successes- several students displayed significant growth
2) Final Essay- high submission rates/discussed possibilities for assessment improvement
3) Next semester (divided January letters)

PLC 12/10

Attendance: Bishop, Dennis, Wassom

Agenda:

1. Class Status
2. Final
3. Next Semester
4. What to improve for next year

• Dennis & Bishop typing OMM essays
• Wassom short story/ lit term review
• All will administer MAP Wed-Fri this week
• All will upload OMM essay to backpack w/ reflection on Monday 12/17

Final:

• Invisible Man district literary analysis
• Print & copy class sets

Next Semester:

• Argument
• Revamp unit-- start with red lining, find new articles, rearrange instruction

Next Year:

• Revamp poetry unit
• Start with Ali, write poetry literary analysis

11/26/18
1) Current Unit Check-in
2) Calibrate Unit Essay: refine rubric, establish slides for writing process

English 2 PLC Minutes 11/19
1) Discuss status of current unit
2) Create additional essay options for term paper (begin essay assessment week after Thanksgiving)
3) Established MAP testing dates: sent to Ellison; reserved technology

English 2 Minutes 11/12

Attendance: Bishop, Dennis, Wassom

• Discussed results of OMM group character project
• Coordinated independent reading focus for weeks of 11/12 & 11/20
• Paced OMM essay writing unit (11/26-12/7)
• Begin with chapter titles activity to review literary devices 
• Daily mini-lessons on writing process 
• To do:
• Brainstorm figurative language review lesson to follow writing unit
• Look at district assessments for use as final exam

English 2 Minutes 11/2

Attendance: Bishop, Dennis, Wassom, Winter

• Discussed using MAP data for grouping students
• Group students according to RIT bands for differentiation
• Discussed pros and cons of MAP testing
• Reported on Group work for OMM
• Brainstormed more ways to incorporate group work into future units

English 2 Minutes (10/22/18)

1) Class Status
2) Pacing thru rest of the week
3) Common assessment (characterization project; administer next week)
4) Next: find additional informational texts to supplement class reading

English 2 PLC minutes: 10/1

1) Discussed class pacing
2) Discussed/created common assessment
3) Research additional informational texts to supplement class reading

Present: Melissa Dennis, Emily Sipp, Ike Wassom, Kyle Bishop

9/28 PLC Minutes

Attendance: Bishop, Dennis, Sipp, Wassom, Roy


Agenda:

1. OMM pacing
2. Revisit OMM assessment

• Everyone will start reading next week
• Find more copies of book
• Dawn printed PDF for copies
• Reworded essay options
• Will all show and explain essay options before reading
• Finish by 3rd week of November

PLC 9/21

Attendance: Dennis, Sipp, Wassom

Agenda: Pacing for next week, Achieve 3000

• Attempted to set up Achieve 3000--  couldn't figure out how to set-up classes
• Paced out Of Mice and Men unit
• Prepared background info lessons
• Created common assessment (critical write prompt) 

PLC 9/7

Attendance:

Kyle Bishop
Melissa Dennis
Megan Winter
Ike Wassom


Item Discussed:

MAP testing
MAP data

PLC 9/10

In Attendance:

Kyle Bishop
Melissa Dennis
Ike Wassom

Wassom & Dennis finished Ali poems today, will wrap up Ali mini-lesson tomorrow
Bishop 1 day behind due to MAP

Created scoring guide for common poetry assessment
Paced out through next week

PLC 8/27

Attendance: Kyle Bishop
                    Melissa Dennis
                    Emily Sipp
                    Ike Wassom


Discussed: Planning, common assesment
       

• Where are we now?
• All will be beginning Maya Angelou mini-unit this week
• Dennis in Library tomorrow, Wassom in library Wednesday, Sipp & Bishop in library Friday
• Up next: 
• Muhammad Ali mini-unit (Dennis will create slides)
• Next meeting:
• Create rubric for poetry assignment
• Plan poetry exam

           
                   

PLC 8/24

Attendance: Bishop, Dennis, Sipp, Wassom, Winter, Roy
Learned about The Valley Harbor
Added Authors and Admins to the English Pages
Discussed Map testing
Discussed the release of EOC scores
Learned how to post on page.