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9:00am EDT

Virginia English Language Arts Supervisors MeetingLIMITED Ball Room Conference Registration (Mandatory) (Friday) Foyer

11:00am EDT

An Assessment of Composition Approaches We Have Known - and Not Always Loved! What now?LIMITED Capitol Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural LiteracyLIMITED Elizabethan Examining Strategies and Patterns for Essay Development in the University Writing CourseLIMITED Georgian Reinvigorating the Bunny: The Basic Skills of Writing Successful Freshman Composition PapersLIMITED Raleigh Writing to Build Resilience: Four Case StudiesLIMITED Drake VATE's Welcome to First-Time Conference Attendees and New VATE MembersLIMITED Foyer Book Store (Friday) Foyer

12:00pm EDT

Conference Welcome and Opening YA Author Gigi Amateau Ball Room

1:00pm EDT

Back to the Real Basics--Authentic Learning in English ClassroomsLIMITED Elizabethan My Kids are Done…Now What?LIMITED Capitol Pictures from the Past: Pulitzer Prize Photographs as Primary SourcesLIMITED Drake Teaching English 101: Using Mentor Texts to Guide Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary InstructionLIMITED Georgian Using August Wilson's Plays to Develop LiteracyLIMITED Raleigh

2:00pm EDT

Can We Talk about Urban Street Fiction for Youth?LIMITED Drake Digital Literacy 101: Using Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony in the Classroom with IWitnessLIMITED Georgian Image and Imagination: Using House on Mango Street and Movement for Personal WritingLIMITED Raleigh Student Selected Reading Assessment: Life After a Reading LogLIMITED Elizabethan Teacher Preparation 101: Basics and Best Practices for the 21st CenturyLIMITED Capitol

3:00pm EDT

Do You Want to Build a Snowman (With Your Librarian?)LIMITED Capitol Engaging the Apathetic StudentLIMITED Georgian Rethinking the 'Basic Rules' of Academic WritingLIMITED Drake Throwing a Wrench at Mechanics - Bringing the Basics to LifeLIMITED Elizabethan Young Adult Lit in the ClassLIMITED Raleigh

4:00pm EDT

Vendor Musical Tables TriviaLIMITED Foyer Poetry Society of Virigina ProgramLIMITED Ball Room

5:00pm EDT

Off-site Dinners with Preservice Teachers Off-Site

7:30pm EDT

Off-site Tour of the Virigina Museum of Fine Arts Off-Site