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=Welcome to the 2017 Write to Literacy Conference!= 9:00-10:00  || Learn about making online videos of your lessons. Making videos will allow you to support your absent and struggling students and will also enable you to collaborate with teachers all over the world. Putting your lessons online is easily within your reach, and, oh yeah, it's really fun to do. || 10:10-11:10   || Gain insights and examples of how Donald Graves’ seven conditions for effective writing can magically transform your classroom. Writing can be the best part of the day for all students! || Take a closer look at texts through fresh eyes by focusing on what your students already bring to the table. Together we will explore how analyzing individual words in and out of context can facilitate critical literary analysis. || Do certain things anger, annoy, bother, drive you up the wall, enrage, exasperate, gall, get your back up, harass, incense, inflame, infuriate, raise your hackles, burn your butter and rub you the wrong way? Stop whining and refocus your energy into action! In this workshop, explore ways to turn your irritations into positive advocacy. Learn the ins and outs of creating an action plan, that is easy to sustain in your busy everyday schedule. || Sometimes the writing prompt inspires students to write with passion and voice, no matter the length or word count. Help your students with these prewriting exercises to narrow their focus and ensure their message is on-point and their ideas are coming through. || Accurate summary is the foundation of thoughtful response. Let's use observation as texts to teach students to work through accurate summary and get to thoughtful response. || 11:20-12:20   || Getting your students interested in the subject matter can help them become stronger writers. Come learn how examining mentor text and developing research-based argumentative writing can ignite your students’ voice. || Change writing from a chore to a joy by using dynamic teen mentor texts to inspire authentic writing. || Do your students view revision as a painful process akin to removing a limb? In this interactive session, explore the use of revision protocols that your students can use to give each other real and useful feedback that supports them as they reexamine their own writing in ways that help them revise. || Tired of students’ terrifying roller coaster narratives that just don’t leave you…terrified? Uplifting dance competition wins that don’t uplift? Using mentor texts and our own revised drafts, we will explore how connotative language and purposeful figurative language help students create mood and tell stories that deeply affect the reader || Using writing to analyze and understand non-fiction text. ||
 * Room  ||  Session 1
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Grand Salon  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Opening Session: ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">mistersato411: How Teachers Can Make Online Videos, and Why They Should **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dan Sato
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Room  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Session 2
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Altadena  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Magically Delicious! Creating the Conditions for Exciting and Effective Writing in the Elementary Classroom ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dawn VanLandingham
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Panorama City  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Not Your Momma’s Literary Analysis: Activating Prior Knowledge and Putting the Students in Charge ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Kaylee Bieraugel
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Tujunga  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Being in the Room Where It Happens: A Way to Stop Complaining and Start Doing ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ron Harris, Darci McGrath, and Janin Spoor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Van Nuys  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Going Beyond Stories: Using Personal Narrative to Write Arguments **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tasha Beaudoin
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">La Crescenta  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The World Is a Text: Using Observation to Teach Accurate Summary and Thoughtful Response **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Kylwona Moton
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Session 3
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Altadena  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Get Them Hooked! Using Tasty Topics to Help Students Develop Argumentative Texts ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reyna Hallett
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Panorama City  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Teen Mentor Texts **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Aja Higgins
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Tujunga  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Moving from Peer Editing to Peer Feedback: Using Protocols for Authentic Peer Response **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Jenn Wolfe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Van Nuys  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The Sneering or Endearing Sun: Creating Mood in Narratives” **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">  Robbie Schwartz
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">La Crescenta  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pursuing Your Happiness and Other Important Stuff **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Heather Hayes