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Join Dr. Degen in his classroom for his latest instructional strategies for reading and writing-- activities providing all students intellectual access to the top performing movements in Language Arts.
Learn about the brain research that supports these strategies.
Over the course of three days, teachers will practice all the key instructional strategies that make up Jesuit's vertical alignment, a playbook that has produced a 95-100% AP pass rate and has verified that 99% of Jesuit juniors are college ready, per SAT scores.
Discover, too, how the department has ceased marking up student essays with tedious notes!
Day 1 establishing an interpretative point of view: reading strategies for developing the analytical voice
Day 2 forming with phrases, constructing with clauses: grammar instruction for enhancing syntax and style
Day 3 engineering the essay: navigating the paragraph and the strategies of coherence and unity; exploring the use of Aristotle's topics of invention
Michael Degen, Ph.D. (CV) has been teaching AP Literature, AP Lang, Pre-AP English, and English III for over twenty-five years. He has presented workshops for numerous school districts throughout Texas and across the Southwest, for the College Board, and for national conventions.
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