In attendance: Ed Jones, Dan Katz, Mary Zedeck

The purpose of this meeting was to set the project in motion including faculty vision of the project, how the two courses might be effectively integrated, possible texts, and to schedule future meeting dates.

Dan’s current f2f course includes: 1st half – reader response, fostering discussion, and literature in the classroom, 2nd half – writing process approaches in the 7-12 classroom.  This is Dan’s current syllabus.

Texts/authors that were discussed: In the Middle by Nancie Atwell and Richard Beach

Action Items:
Ed and Dan will each spend time in each other’s f2f classrooms to get a better feel for how to integrate the content
Ed to send Dan and Mary his current f2f syllabus

Future Meetings:
9/24/13, 10-12pm, JH, Dan and Ed
10/3/13, 10-12pm, TLTC, Dan, Ed, Karen, Mary, and Grace
10/10/13, 10-12pm, TLTC, Dan, Ed, and Mary