‘C2- Wednesday, August 27, 1980 - North Shore News

SAN FRANCISCO (UPD -
Writing is back in school as a
skill to be taught to children
and practiced by them
before they get to college.

won

Entering. freshmen were
traumatized when asked to
write a four-page paper on
any subject, or even to write
a few paragraphs on what

ack to basics in the class

got left behind. They could
not write.”
First-graders in some

California schools are now
learning

to construct

One
Americans grew up with
“language arts” in what was

generation of

once called “grammar”
school. Teachers stressed
“creativity” but not
mechanics of writing.
These were the students
who horrified their college
professors because they
could not construct sen-
tences and paragraphs.

Can .you believe we're
back again? True, it does
seem as if we just got nicely
into summer, but we hope
you're glad to see us, even if
we're harbingers of autumn.

We're not surprised to be
here, because all summer
the office has been buzzing
with plans, contracts and
schedules, all geared to

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school fare, as usual. Those
constantly new titles don't
just spring out of the earth
like mushrooms, you know.
And new titles there are.

the .

they did during summer
vacation.

“Writing was not taking
place in the grades,” says
Shirley Bockrath, a teacher
who now helps _ schools
resume the teaching of
writing skills. ~

“In ‘language arts’ they
were concentrating on
listening and speaking skills.
Somehow the English lesson

Your new brochure will be
atriving at your door about
the same time as this does
and you'll have _ several
weeks in which to make your
decisions. September 22 is
the BIG DAY when nonr-
academic courses begin.
“BEING A WOMAN IN
MY VERY OWN WAY?” is
the rather cryptic title of one
of the new courses, which is
designed to help you develop
skills, insights and con-
sciousness of all the
potential you possess, but
don’t let that description

complete sentences. They
capitalize the first word of
each sentence and all proper
names.

Second and third-graders
learn to identify nouns,
adjectives and verbs and use
them correctly.

In the fourth grade they
are expected to master the
“topic sentence.” By then,
they are writing fairly

Night School set for new year

dismay you. It's not a
psychological trip into your
psyche.

It’s) a down-to-earth
journey involving fashion
and make-up, how to make
the right decisions when it
comes to your personal
priorities, how to improve
your self-image, to come to
the full realization that
there's no such thing as “just
a housewife” — that all of us
have what it takes, as long as
we become aware of it. If
you're a bit puzzled by all of
this — fine, come on out and

complex pieces, putting onc
solid thought into cach
paragraph of a composition.

By the time they reach
high school they will be
learning to do_ research,
using the thesaurus to find
better words, and will
probably put out a class
newspaper.

“We have done pilots
around California,” Ms. -*
Bockrath said m an in-
terview. “The children love
it. They cannot believe their
own capacity for writing.

“They also enjoy the fact
that they are little editors,
correcting their writing just
the way an editor would.”

The program Ms.
Bockrath promotes is Scott,
Foresman’'s “Language: skills
and Use” series. It is a
thoroughly prepared set of
lessons for the elementary
grades.

find out more!

“MUSIC THEORY” is a
course that will prove to be
incredibly useful for all of
you who love music, want to
learn to study music, or
already have studied it but
didn’t have any theory. Its
importance can't be over-
emphasized. It gives you a
good firm basic foundation
for all the musical listening
and/or playmg you'll ever
do

' Next week — new cooking
courses, crafts, art,
religion...

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