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NCTE-SA Meeting Minutes for January 19, 2006 * Meetings
will be scheduled for Thursdays at 5:30 pm.
The location will alternate between United Action for Youth (on * NCTE-SA
will help (i.e. go to the lecture and maybe help serve food/drink) with
Shirley Brice Heath’s lecture on Wednesday, February 8 from 4:30 - 6 pm in
Jones Commons. Please be there 15
minutes early. This will also be a way
to recruit new members, so we will have membership forms and calendars available
to guests. We may need volunteers to
hang flyers about the lecture--more info to come. - The screening of “Art Show” and
Heath’s follow-up lecture is Thursday, February
9th from 4:30 -
7:30 pm in the art museum if you’re interested in going. * We signed
up for office hours (about two hours per week). Members can obtain the office key in room
N259 LC (ask for Bobbi). Office hours
are a way to recruit new members, but you can also use this time to study or
use the office’s resources (e.g. laptop computer and printer, NCTE publications,
books, one-pagers, ideas for lesson plans, etc.). - The computer and printer may not
be available for another few weeks, but when we
gain access, there will be a sign-up sheet for computer use. You may bring the computer to the office and use it there, but for security
purposes, the computer will otherwise
be stored in Bonnie’s office or in N259. More info to come. * We
discussed the NCTE-SA website, and once we have webmaster access, we will
update it to include: course reviews, professor ratings, book reviews, posts
of one-pagers and/or bibliographies, and information about our tutoring
services * Next
meeting’s agenda: - vote for NCTE-SA officers (those
interested in running need not prepare a speech--we
will have an informal “election”) - discuss a date to reschedule the
movie screening, and vote on a movie.
The ideas so far are: Emperor’s Club, Dead Poet’s Society, Stand
and Deliver, Educating Rita, Mat Hot Ballroom, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland’s
Opus, Spellbound - finalize the NCTE-SA event
calendar through the end of the semester.
Two suggestions for future
events are book talks (anything from what our students might like to what we might like) and a teen
forum where students answer questions
about what they (dis)like about reading, writing,
English classes, school, etc. |