Belcourt Launch of the C3WP

On Monday, August 13th, Kelly Sassi, Angie Hase, Ben Scallon, and Denise Lajimodiere met with the entire staff (about 40 teachers) of Turtle Mountain High School in Belcourt, ND to introduce them to the College, Career, and Community Writers Program. First, everyone wrote about the strengths of their students as writers and the challenges they face. We then listened to the Director of the National Writing Project, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talk about the importance of argument writing today. You too can listen to the clip here.

Ben Scallon then lead us through the mini unit on routine argument writing. Angie Hase set C3WP in a context.

Angie Hase introduces the mini unit on writing and revising claims.

Then we met with just the ELA and social studies teachers--a cozy group of 10--to go over our grant commitments, read and discuss some short readings about principles of argument writing, and walk through another mini unit on writing and revising claims. We ended the day with a reflection about how the students will work with argument in the teachers' classrooms this year.