Notes From Collaborative Planning Meeting

Friday, March 30, 2007

Roger Shanley

• Early conversation stressed use at the individual teacher level based on successful units or activities…my use of character sketch for literature links
• Discussion of varied content areas brought concept of “translation” as focus I might use to shape curriculum

~related concepts were perception, intertextual collaboration

• My planning focused on use of character sketch for seniors and variations on past use

~consider continuation of early steps of drawing person, speech, environment, action, others’s action and speech, appearance

~send to Dan Kester / Curtis Simpson for photograph of student

            --use software for “aging” of photograph to show 20 years in future

--various writings and literature focusing on self as related to community, aging aspects (interviews of lineage / relatives)

            --implcations of multigenre research and writings

            --implications of multiple intelligence theory

--self as metaphor, using imagery based on intelligence (self as musical score)

                                                --implications for rhetorical triangle

• Possible modifications to current curriculum

--less reliance on senior anthology

--content changes�"new texts:

            ~Bel Canto

            ~Interpreter of Maladies

            ~Zero to The Bone

            ~Fast Food Nation

--process changes

            ~Taba questioning strategies

            ~creative problem-solving (Parnes)

            ~community based interviews

            ~partnership with CTE student

--product changes

            ~digital music as metaphor of self

            ~animation / claymation for storytelling

            ~digital storytelling with audio / video portions

            ~digital portfolios

            ~senior time capsule

--learning environment changes

            ~CTE building use for collaboration

            ~community for interviews

            ~University of Arizona

            ~governmental offices for lineage work