October+2015

= MTS PD DAY! [|#MTSPDDay] =

** Essay Writing in High School **** Settings. (SY) **
Roy Norris Persuasive research essays are still the bread and butter of humanities writing in the final years of high school and in virtually all post-secondary programs. Knowing how to write a good essay is vastly different from knowing how to teach essay writing. This session will explain one solid approach to this teaching task, developed over the past 20 years. The session will benefit novice and veteran teachers alike, and of course you should not be fooled by the session title; there are many excellent ways to teach essay writing. This is a “listen/read/discuss” session, so you will have to participate if you attend. //Roy Norris is an English teacher at Dakota// //Collegiate and a Doctoral Candidate// //with the Werklund School of Education,// //University of Calgary. Roy has been// //teaching essay writing for over 20 years.// //Code: C2 //