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Meeting and Portfolio Schedule:
Fall 2010

Updated: 05.19.10
Please Note: Instructors are permitted to cancel their own HSU classes in order to attend mandatory Composition Program meetings. In all but a very few, very rare circumstances, attendance is a condition of employment. Please contact your Composition Director with questions.

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Fall TA Orientation Sessions
Thursday, August 12 | 10:00-4:00 | FH 234
Friday, August 13 | 10:00-4:00 | FH 234

Classes Begin: August 23, 2010

Labor Day Holiday: Monday, September 6

Comp Program Meeting #1
Friday, September 17, 2010 | FH 234
8:30-10:30 = Comp Curriculum Committee
10:45-11:45 = All Faculty
12:00-1:00 = TAs

Comp Program Meeting #2
Friday, October 8, 2010 | FH 234
8:30-10:30 = Comp Curriculum Committee
10:45-11:45 = All Faculty
12:00-1:00 = TAs

English Council San Diego: October 13-15

English 200 Portfolio Reading = Friday, October 22?
(Don't worry: if you haven't been tapped to read, you don't have to attend.)

Comp Program Meeting #3
Friday, November 5, 2010 | FH 234
8:30-10:30 = Comp Curriculum Committee
10:45-11:45 = All Faculty
12:00-1:00 = TAs

Veterans Day Holiday: Thursday, November 11

NWP Annual Meeting Orlando: November 18-20
NCTE Annual Convention Orlando: November 18-21

Thanksgiving Week Holiday: November 22-26

Portfolio Timeline

Wednesday
December 8
Portfolios Due to Instructors. Please make arrangements to collect your students' portfolios in person; please DO NOT ALLOW students to submit their portfolios to the English Department office. Thank you.
Thursday
December 9
High Noon
Ether: GoogleForm
Failing 100A and 60 Student Names Posted

Thursday
December 9
10:00-2:00
FH 234

Misery-Loves-Company Communal Scoring Session (mandatory for TAs, new lecturers, and lecturers returning from haiatus; optional for lecturers). Come for norming at 10:00; stay until your batches are finished or until 2:00, whichever comes first. Tracy will be available to keep participants normed, answer questions, and search for norming benchmarks.
Thursday
December 9
Midnight
FH 201
Scored Portfolios to Collection Boxes in the English Department Office
Friday
December 10
8:30-closing
TBA
Portfolio Reading

Saturday
December 11
9:00-11:00
FH 234

Adjudication Session

Saturday
December 11
11:00

Completed Batch Control Sheets (intact originals, please) due to Tracy

Saturday
December 11
11:00
E Portfolio Information due to Barbara via GoogleForm
Saturday
December 11
after 4:00
Bulletin Board
across the Hall from FH 201
Portfolio Scores Posted
TBA
English 40 Reading
Monday
December 13
9:00
FH 201
Retrieve E-Portfolio certificates from office mailbox

Tracy Duckart | Acting Director of Composition, Webmistress | 707.826.5958
Barbara Goldberg | University Writing Center Director, Developmental Writing Coordinator | 707.826.4442
Nicolette Amann | Writing Confidence Course Leader | 707.826.3318