Another busy academic year has ended and much has been accomplished. Thank you to the many teachers who gave their time to help CITE. Whether you attended the AGM, the Social, the conference in April, or encouraged your students to submit something for the InCITE Writing Competition, we appreciate your support.

The summer break is here! Before you leave, please remember to mark your calendar for the next conference: Making Media Matter, hosted by Royal St. George's College on Saturday, April 16, 2016.
We thought it would be helpful for planning purposes to view the 2016 InCITE writing prompt. Here it is - enjoy!

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If you would like to receive regular updates, contact Claire Pacaud.

Check out the range of events hosted by the Brockton Writers Series. One of our CIS authors, Patricia Westerhof, will be reading here in September, 2013.

http://brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com 

Call for Presenters – Saturday April 20, 2013 CITE Conference

The CITE 2013 team is looking for presenters to further thinking and influence pedagogy regarding our conference theme Global Perspectives; Individual Voices. We are seeking presentations of approximately 75 minutes that may focus on the following questions, or suit the conference theme in other unique ways. 

·         How can global citizenship be fostered in the English classroom?

·         How do we encourage our students to find their own voices as part of a global environment?

·         How can literature be used as a way to understand the self in the world?

·         Can you write on global issues without being ethnocentric?

·         Does reading global literature create a false sense of cultural understanding?

·         What does Canadian literature mean anymore? 

For further information, or to submit your proposal, please contact Maggie Hanrahan at mhanrahan@appleby.on.ca

The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 10th, 2012. 

Conference Registration

Online registration will be available in January. Remember to reserve $185 of PD funds for the conference fee.

Department Head / Representative Meeting

Please send your department head OR a representative.

Date:  February 12, 2013

Location: The Royal Canadian Yacht Club 141 St. George St., Toronto (Model Room)  

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

RSVP – eplamer@appleby.on.ca

Proposed agenda items can be forwarded to gdominato@maclachlan.ca

The 2012 Department Heads’ minutes are attached for your review.

 

Possible Discussion: Technology is changing the way we read. Is deep, prolonged reading losing its relevance?

Read Crescent School teacher Robert Costanzo`s view that students are ``surviving English class by sampling, scanning and browsing” by clicking the link:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/so-what-if-kids-are-reading-less-these-days-theyre-better-off/article4637037/

Click on the next link and scroll down to read Colin Brezicki’s view (former Head of English at Ridley College). 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/letters/oct-26-honouring-people-convicted-of-a-crime-and-other-letters-to-the-editor/article4670311/

Colin’s opinion piece entitled “The Vanishing Reader” is also attached.

CITE Social – Beer and Books for all CITE Teachers

Mark your calendars for CITE’s Annual Social (following the Department Heads’ Meeting)

Date: February 12, 2013.

Location: The Royal Canadian Yacht Club 141 St. George St., Toronto (Model Room)  

Time:  5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

InCITE Student Literary Publication

Written and art submissions for InCITE, the student literary publication, are due March 1, 2013 to cpacaud@scs.on.ca. Please also encourage your art department and photography club/class to send entries. This year’s writing prompt is attached.

CITE Website

For more information about CITE, please visit our website.

http://www.ciscite.com

Claire Pacaud - CITE Communications Officer

CITE AGM

Thank you to everyone who made the effort to attend the CITE AGM. A special thank you to Jan Campbell, Director of CIS, who addressed the group and to Tena Laing at The Sterling Hall School for hosting the event. We had 19 CIS Ontario schools represented! Attached are the minutes for your review.

 

CITE Conference

We have a great conference planned for Saturday April 20, 2013 at Appleby College. Jennifer Klein, Professional Development Director of the World Leadership School will give the keynote address. In addition, Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran, and  Vincent Lam, author of  Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, as well as CITE’s own Aggie Maksimowska, author of Giant, will be giving readings from their new works. Please reserve $185 of PD funds for the conference.

Call for Presenters

The CITE 2013 team is looking for creative, diverse presenters to further thinking and influence pedagogy regarding our conference theme Global Perspectives; Individual Voices.  The attached poster can be printed for your school’s use. We are seeking presentations of approximately 75 minutes that may focus on the following questions, or suit the conference theme in other unique ways. 

·         How can global citizenship be fostered in the English classroom?

·         How do we encourage our students to find their own voices as part of a global environment?

·         How can literature be used as a way to understand the self in the world?

·         Can you write on global issues without being ethnocentric?

·         Does reading global literature create a false sense of cultural understanding?

·         What does Canadian literature mean anymore? 

For further information, or to submit your proposal, please contact Maggie Hanrahan at mhanrahan@appleby.on.ca.  The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 10th, 2012. 

InCITE Writing Prompt

Please see the attached poster. Remember that a teacher (rather than the student) must email the entries, and only one submission per grade band is permitted.  Students are asked to ensure that the writing is polished and ready to be published when submitted. The deadline is Friday March 1, 2013.

InCITE  - Art Submissions Needed

In addition to writing, the InCITE publication also features student artwork (don’t worry about trying to match the art to students’ writing). Photography and art images must be sent to cpacaud@scs.on.ca by Friday March 1, 2013.

CITE Website – NEW!

The CITE website has been updated. Professional development opportunities, important dates and electronic versions of the InCITE publications can be found here:  http://www.ciscite.com/ Please email gdominato@maclachlan.ca if you have any questions or information that you would like added to the site.

Claire Pacaud - CITE Communications Officer

Dear CITE Teachers,

Here are some important events to mark in your calendars:

 

CITE AGM

Thursday October 18, 2012

Each CIS school is asked to send a representative.

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Location:  The Sterling Hall School

http://www.sterlinghall.com/page.cfm?p=364

Send agenda items to gdominato@maclachlan.ca

R.S.V.P. epalmer@applebycollege.com

CITE Department Heads' Meeting Followed by Social for ALL CITE Teachers

Tuesday February 12, 2013

Location: Toronto

Details to follow

 

InCITE 2013 Writing Competition

Open to all CIS students in grades 7 to 12. The 2012 InCITE publication can still be purchased for $15 by emailing Ellen Palmer Epalmer@appleby.on.ca

The Prompt:

Using Google Earth, spin the globe, stop it on a random destination, and zoom in for a closer look! Use this location as the setting for your writing. Feel free to fictionalize beyond what can be seen through Google Earth. You might be a resident of the location you have landed upon, a visitor from another country, or a tourist from another planet. You are limited only by your own creativity, but be consistent with the details you see through Google Earth. Please be sure to include the exact coordinates as a subtitle to your submission, so that readers can travel to your destination to see the location that inspired your writing.

 

Guidelines:

Please send us your top entry for each of the following grades:

Grades 7-8, Grades 9-10, Grades 11-12.

1st, 2nd and 3rd place cash prizes for each age group will be awarded.

Student entries should fit one of the following categories:

Poetry (up to120 lines); Short Story, Personal Essay, or Dramatic Scene (up to 1200 words).

Prizes will be awarded at each grade level: $100 (First place), $75 (Second), $50 (Third).

Please encourage artwork submissions related to the theme as well!

The best artwork submitted will be featured on the cover and will win a prize!

 

Submission Information:

All submissions should be sent to Claire Pacaud (cpacaud@scs.on.ca). A representative from each school should send that school’s entries individually as separate file attachments. The filename of the document should indicate the school and grade. In the file itself, include the work’s title, the student's name, grade, and school. 

The submission deadline is March 1, 2013.


Jennifer D. Klein, Plenary Speaker of the CITE 2013 conference, has generously produced this year’s prompt.  Jennifer comes to us via World Leadership School with a wealth of experience in both local and international classrooms. She is the Director of Educational Development for the Research Journalism Initiative (RJI), an educational non-profit that facilitates creative expression among Palestinian young people and the use of their media projects in American classrooms. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, both in Literature and Creative Writing. She has taught college and high school English both in North and Central America. Jennifer has an extensive background in curriculum development and experiential, project-based learning.

2013 CITE Conference

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday April 20, 2013

Appleby College School

http://www.appleby.on.ca/page.cfm?p=1483

Details to follow

 
Claire Pacaud - CITE Communications Officer

Dear CITE Teachers,

Welcome back! Two exciting events are happening this month.

BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES – WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12

September has a fabulous line-up featuring Patricia Westerhof (CITE Teacher), Benjamin Hackman, Leslie Shimotakahara and James FitzGerald.

The event takes place at Full of Beans Coffee House and Roastery located at 1348 Dundas St. West 

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. – writers’ networking with special guest speaker Sheila Barry,  Co-publisher of Groundwood Books

7:00 p.m.  – 8:30 p.m. – readings by authors

For more information click http://brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/

YOUNG WRITERS’ WORKSHOP AT EDEN MILLS – MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17

Four outstanding authors, Carrie Snyder, Tanis Rideout, Angie Abdou and Evan Munday will offer workshops on various aspects of the craft of writing. The event is ideal for Writer’s Craft classes and avid young writers, grades 9-12. It takes place in the beautiful 100-Story Wood – in Camp Edgewood adjacent to Eden Mills. Please see the attached pdf brochure. Schools need to commit by Monday, September 10.

Contact Adrian Hoad-Reddick for more information: ahoad@sjkschool.org

Please email cpacaud@scs.on.ca if you would like to be removed from the CITE distribution list.

Claire Pacaud - CITE Communications Officer

“Oh, to be young, free, and… back to school?!”

Writer/ CITE teacher Norm Reynolds reads from Put Up Your Hand (& other stuff) at Glad Day Books on Sunday September 9 at 2: 00 p.m.  The event is free and is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. Please see the attachment for more information.

Claire Pacaud - CITE Communications Officer