Revision plan updated 11/26/07

The weekend I spent sorting through sources and discarding several. At the suggestion of Dr. O'Rourke, I spent a good deal of time with the journal "Voices from the Middle." Here I found many articles that will better tie in the methods being used by instructors at Northbrook School teach writing. Today I spent a good portion of the time composing paragraphs related to the school's ISAT scores. The school made a concentrated effort to improve test scores and that showed for many years. Recently, though, the scores have once more begun to slide, with 30.6 percent of the students operating below state standards for writing. This is the highest that it has been since 1999. With these scores in mind, I have additional questions for Ms. Pozzi and the writing instructors @ Northbrook.