September,+7th+grade

__Present__: Paula Watson, Leslie Ann Little, Colin Mackey, and Heather Karvey

1. We established the first or second Wednesday of the month as our grade-level meeting. It will take place during the time we meet as a PLC/PLT. 2. We examined Bart's four key questions to see how we could apply them to our grade level. 3. After the kind of discussion only English teachers can have (including diagraming question #4), we settled upon these two questions which, we plan, can have "some closure" by year's end:

How can 7th grade English teachers effectively engage students as givers and receivers of meaningful feedback in every stage of the writing process? ** How can 7th grade English teachers expand our students’ social awareness in order to deepen their appreciation of various cultural perspectives? **
 *  1. [Writing]
 *  2. [Literature]