The Secondary Section is pleased to welcome you to NCTE's Annual Convention. This year's Secondary Section program is diverse and exciting. Conventiongoers will enjoy the full spectrum of bold new work in poetry, literature, drama, composition, non-fiction and technology. With over 200 interactive sessions and activities, your greatest challenge will be to decide which secondary sessions to attend!
~Wanda Porter, Chair, Secondary Section Steering Committee
2009 Annual Convention Program - Search the online version-available soon
Secondary Section Speakers
Nancy Pearl
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 5:00pm
Secondary Section Get-Together
The New York Times calls her “the talk of librarian circles.” Readers can’t get enough of her recommendations while bookstores and libraries offer standing room only whenever she visits. Since the release of the best-selling Book Lust in 2003 and the Librarian Action Figure modeled in her likeness, Nancy Pearl has become a rock star among readers and the tastemaker people turn to when deciding what to read next.
Having worked as a librarian and bookseller in Detroit, Tulsa, and Seattle, Pearl's knowledge of and love for books is unmatched. In 1998, she developed the program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," which spread across the country. The former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book, Pearl celebrates the written word by speaking at bookstores and libraries across the country and on her monthly television program Book Lust with Nancy PearlÊon the Seattle Channel. She is a regular commentator about books on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and NPR affiliate stations KUOWÊin Seattle and KWGSÊin Tulsa.
In 2004, Pearl became the 50th winner of the Women’s National Book Association Award for her extraordinary contribution to the world of books. In the moments when Pearl finds herself without a book, she is an avid bicyclist and happy grandmother of two. She lives in Seattle with her husband Joe. (source: http://www.nancypearl.com/biography)
HIGH SCHOOL MATTERS!
Make plans to attend the High School Matters event!
Where do all the high school teachers meet? High School Matters! This 
fast-paced session will feature three mini-keynote presenters and over 20 outstanding teachers who will lead roundtable discussions on a variety of topics. Participants will choose two different roundtables that meet their specific interests and needs, add their voices to the conversation, and leave with valuable materials for immediate use. This mini-workshop will be interactive, vibrant, and filled with cutting-edge information.
event!Where do all the high school teachers meet? High School Matters! This fast-paced session will feature three mini-keynote presenters and over 20 outstanding teachers who will lead roundtable discussions on a variety of topics. Participants will choose two different roundtables that meet their specific interests and needs, add their voices to the conversation, and leave with valuable materials for immediate use. This mini-workshop will be interactive, vibrant, and filled with cutting-edge information.Make plans to attend the event!Where do all the high school teachers meet? High School Matters! This fast-paced session will feature three mini-keynote presenters and over 20 outstanding teachers who will lead roundtable discussions on a variety of topics. Participants will choose two different roundtables that meet their specific interests and needs, add their voices to the conversation, and leave with valuable materials for immediate use. This mini-workshop will be interactive, vibrant, and filled with cutting-edge information.
Moderator: Kay Parks Haas, Olathe District Schools, Kansas
Joyce Carol Oates
Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 12:30pm
Secondary Section Luncheon
Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgia for the time and place of her childhood, and her working-class upbringing is lovingly recalled in much of her fiction. Yet she has also admitted that the rural, rough-and-tumble surroundings of her early years involved "a daily scramble for existence." Growing up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York, she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementary grades. As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of drawing and painting before learning how to write. After receiving the gift of a typewriter at age fourteen, she began consciously training herself, "writing novel after novel" throughout high school and college.His books include: The Importance of a Piece of Paper, Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (New Directions), A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes, C-Train & Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land.
In 1978, Oates moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she continues to teach in Princeton University's creative writing program. Shortly after arriving in Princeton, Oates began writing Bellefleur, the first in a series of ambitious Gothic novels that simultaneously reworked established literary genres and reimagined large swaths of American history. Published in the early 1980s, these novels marked a departure from the psychological realism of her earlier work. But Oates returned powerfully to the realistic mode with ambitious family chronicles (You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart), novels of female experience (Solstice, Marya : A Life), and even a series of pseudonymous suspense novels (published under the name "Rosamond Smith") that again represented a playful experiment with literary genre. (resource: http://jco.usfca.edu/life/index.html)
To purchase tickets for this event, see the convention registration form.
Other Secondary Level Events
| Session: A.44 - 9:30 am to 10:45 am 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Policy, Politics, and Social Justice | | Level(s): Secondary (9-12) | |
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Title: Hiroshima: Understanding Ethics through Primary and Secondary Source Documents as Well as Original Writing
Students read and analyze 'Hiroshima' by John Hersey as well as additional primary and secondary source documents about nuclear or other large-scale hostile events to shape their ideas about the ethics of warfare. Students also create original works on the subject and have inter-school discussions about current ethics dilemmas. |
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| Session: B.33 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Writing | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12) | | Strand(s): Rainbow Strand |
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Title: Reading Between the Lines: How Teachers Use Culturally Mediated Writing Instruction with Adolescent Students
This presentation is about secondary teachers looking for ways to support student writers who are learning English. In a research project funded by the National Writing Project, we are documenting how teacher researchers are enacting 'culturally mediated writing instruction.' We have identified at least five kinds of support: interpersonal; conceptual; visual; linguistic; and textual. This presentation will explain and provide illustrations of these dynamic support structures and tools.
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| Chair: | Angela Beumer Johnson, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio |
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| Session: B.39 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Teacher Education | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12), College/University | | Strand(s): CEE Strand |
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Title: Video-Based Response and Reflection: A Process of Discovery
An interative process of videorecording, viewing peer feedback on secure websites, and reflection over the course of a year-long, pre-service internship is described. The impact of this process on the development of dialogic instruction in secondary classrooms is discussed among instructors and interns, who will share their work. |
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| Session: B.41 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Literature | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12), College/University | |
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Title: Crossing Lines and Blurring Boundaries with Poetry
Presenters will share their ideas about how poetry helps us cross lines and blur boundaries by describing their unique collaborations connecting university English education students to secondary students around the study of poetry. |
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| Session: B.53 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Teacher Training | | Level(s): Secondary (9-12) | | Strand(s): Research Strand |
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Title: New Literacies and Adolescent Motivation
This study is a quantitative analysis of survey results given to secondary students (N=300) about their in-school and out-of-school literacy practices. This research, grounded in New Literacies Theory, gives insight into student perceptions of technology integration into the English classroom and how it affects adolescent motivation to read and write. |
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| Session: C.33 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Writing | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12) | |
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Title: Creative Writing: A Craft to Be Learned
Young Gordon Korman is the exception to the rule. More often than not, secondary level students look at writing as a chore, and a generic one at that: all writing is 'just' writing. They often don't realize its great potential, much less think of themselves as 'writers.'
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| Presenter: | Matt de la Peña, author, Random House Children's Books, New York, NY, 'A Working Class Approach to Writing' |
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| Session: C.36 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Classroom Demonstration | | Room: | Topic: Reading | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12) | | Strand(s): CEE Strand, WLU Strand |
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Title: From Byway to Highway: Moving Effective Secondary Workshop Instruction from the Classroom to the District
Middle- and high-school teachers often hesitate to bring workshop instruction into their classrooms. The presenters will demonstrate some reading workshop structures–specifically, conferring and guided reading-with a small group of high school students and discuss a district-wide model for spreading exemplary class work to an entire district.
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| Chair: | Dorothy Barnhouse, Literacy Consultant, New York, New York |
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| Session: D.01 - 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Adolescent / Young Adult Literacy | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12) | |
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Title: Featured Session--A Change Must Come: Finding Innovative Ways to Use Popular Culture in Secondary Classrooms
The purpose of this presentation is to provide teachers with examples of how educators can incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy in the classroom as a means to improve teaching and learning for all students.
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| Chair: | Jamal Cooks, San Francisco State University, California | | Presenter: | Lovelyn Marquez-Prueher, 2008 Recipient of the NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Award of Distinction, Middle Level, Torrance, California, 'Culturally Relevant and Responsive Education' | | Zanetta Robinson, 2008 Recipient of the NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Award of Distinction, Middle Level, St. Petersburg, Florida , 'Culturally Relevant and Responsive Teaching' |
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| Session: D.04 - 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Teacher Education | | Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels) | | Strand(s): CEE Strand, Rainbow Strand, WLU Strand |
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Title: Cultivating New Teachers for Diverse Classrooms
In this session, four teacher educators of color present ways to prepare early childhood to secondary literacy educators from a diversities perspective (Genishi & Goodwin, 2008), valuing students of color and their backgrounds (Ladson-Billings, 1996) as they seek to promote change and embrace social justice. |
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| Session: D.40 - 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Classroom Demonstration | | Room: | Topic: Policy, Politics, and Social Justice | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12), College/University | | Strand(s): LGBT Strand |
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Title: We Can Do More: Sustaining and Enhancing Efforts to Integrate LGBT Voices into Secondary English Curricula
Join us in deepening attention to LGBT issues by taking small safe steps to make your curriculum more inclusive. We'll introduce participatns to 'Gay Straight Alliances Speak Out,' our new online student writing anthology, and experiment with writing prompts that generated the pieces. We'll end by focusing on a short text involving a transgender character. |
Registration and Housing Information
The 2009 NCTE Annual Convention will be held November 19-22, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Philadelphia Marriott.
The 2009 NCTE Annual Convention will be held November 19-22, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Philadelphia Marriott.
Note: In addition, convention participants can register to attend an all day workshop on Monday, November 23 or a two-day workshop on November 23-24.
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