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in school.

Today, in an age of
mechanical technology apd
advanced methodology,
things have changed.There
are audio-visual aids,
automated markers and
scientifically researched
materials. There’s also more
opportunity for kids to
express themselves and to be
creative.

Today the teacher gives
the kids several short, simple
sentences: It was morning. It
was cold. It was sunny. A
girl jumped off a bus. She
was holding a plant. Etc.

The student is asked to
construct the complex
sentence — to combine the
elements according to
principles learned in
workshops and laboratories.

ple? Probably not.

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THE NEW LEARNING
Creating a new
world with words

By CAROLE STAFFORD

Grammar. That’s what they called it when I was
The teacher would stand at the
blackboard and write a long, complex sentence
and we'd have to parse it — dissect its parts and
explain the relationship of each to the other. It

was dry and they drilled us daily. Some of us
learned it; some of us didn't.

‘Writing 44’,
program of language in-
struction introduced to
North Vancouver secondary
schools this fall, bucks
tradition in many ways.

“In the past, teachers of
English have tended to be
teachers of literature,” says
Dr. Leo Marshall, assistant

a unique

superintendent (program
and development) for School
District 44.

“This program provides a
clear separation between
literature and writing and
thus. we're putting a much
more conscious focus on the

actual act and art of
writing,” he said.
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