Literacy Event from Today (September 25, 2008)

This morning was the weekly sixth grade team meeting with the principal of my school. At the start of each meeting, the principal passes around an agenda of the things that we need to discuss and important information about the upcoming weeks. Once she presented the agenda to the teachers, we immediately were able to engage in the text and get a feel for how the meeting was going to unfold, and whether or not we needed to get straight down to business based on the amount of information that was to be covered. After glancing it over, we were able to begin discussion about the first item without much introduction, and we all had the background we needed to be able to participate. We all came with the knowledge of what an agenda is, so we were able to quickly dissect it and get started with our meeting