A Fresh Start

U n iv e rs i ty o f Pu e r to R i c o a t H u ma c a o
August
2006
The English Students’ Association
NEWSLETTER
A Fresh Start:
Meet the New E.S.A Crew and the New English
Department Staff.
This semester the English Students’ Association has a new Board of Directors for the
academic year 2006-2007 and also the English Department has a new
Director, Academic Advisor and B.A. Coordinator.
Interview of the Month
A New Direction
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English:
A Political Tool No
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The Board & You…
The Board will keep you informed of everything that’s
happening with the E.S.A. and more.
ViceVice-President
Here we are one more academic year pursuing our goals and dreams.
As students, we all know it is not an easy task to accomplish them yet
the majority of us know that quitting is just not an option.
As Vice-President of the English Students Association, I formally
welcome you all to U.P.R.H.
Giovanni A. Rodriguez
Secretary
I’m the Secretary of the English Student’s Association. I will always
be at your disposition in any way that I can help you. I hope to see
you all at the activities and cooperating with the association.
Maria Flores
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Treasurer
Assistant Editor
Webpage Master
Public Relations
Mariela Lopez
Brenda Velez
Eduardo Ayala
Yangel Espinosa
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The Presidential Message:
Konishiwa! Hi Everyone!
I carry this beautiful quote in my heart.
“We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise,
and then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.” by Emily Dickinson.
We always tend to look down at ourselves. In our eyes we do not see our skills, our power, and our personal
and academic growth until we are called. I heard the call, a call to touch the sky, a call to reach what I was
always scared to reach. Here I am. It is my duty and responsibility as a student to reach and achieve my
professional goals. As the new E.S.A. president my duty and my responsibility is to help you reach and achieve
your personal and academic goals by assisting your needs with workshops, conferences and activities that will
serve as guidance for the future English teachers. These activities will help enrich the diversity of student
members in their academic and professional goals as well as in gaining and improving their literacy skills.
I want to make a call to the English students and the English professors to join us and to be aware that this
association is a tool to achieve our goals. Our motto is “Helping Create Better Teachers for the Future” we will
help the English students to reach their goals.
As a future English teacher, I am an agent of change. It is my duty to contribute my grain of sand and to
promote an awareness of what is going on in our society.
Let’s reach together and accomplish what we set our minds to do. We can do it! You can count on me!
Omi-Chan
I will be seeing you around and don’t hesitate to join us!
The Newly Appointed...
Director
Denise Rodríguez
Rodr guez
BA Counselor
BA Coordinator
Giovanna Balaguer
Anibal Muñoz
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English: A Political Tool No More
by Luis A. López Santiago
This essay was selected form the class Advanced Composition 2 in the semester of January to May 2006.
The English BA students point of view.
Many educators and researchers have often argued about and explained the reasons why
students resist learning English as a second language in Puerto Rico. Some of them argue
that the political situation of the island is the principal factor for this resistance (in this essay
resistance means the attitude, bad or good, students have towards the learning of a language, in this case
English). The history of the teaching of English in Puerto Rico is surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Between 1898 and 1947, the public school system of Puerto Rico went through six major changes regarding the
decision to use English as a school subject or as the medium for instruction. These changes were established by
some appointed commissioners of that era that thought that imposing English (by the use of it as the medium
for instruction) would make the conquest or “Americanization” of the Puerto Ricans faster. . Some of them
also thought or said that the Spanish Puerto Rican talked when they got here did not sound like a language but a
“patois”. And given this “lack of language”, they thought it was better for Puerto Ricans to have English as their
native language.
While these commissioners were arguing and changing the policy, Puerto Ricans students were having a
hard time and getting confused trying to learn through a language that they did not understand. This indecision
created by commissioners whose only purpose was to conquer Puerto Rico through the language created a lot of
confusion, discomfort, anger and frustration amongst Puerto Ricans. This led to a resistance towards the
learning of English. Puerto Ricans saw English as the conquerors main weapon and their tool to impose not
only their language but their culture as well.
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Times have changed and English is not the medium for instruction in the public school system of Puerto Rico
since 1947. Yet, some people still argue that students’ resistance towards learning English is due to political
and/or historical reasons. They also blame the English language for the deterioration of the “native” language
(Spanish). Most of the arguments focus on a “confusion” caused by the English language because it supposedly
impairs the students’ learning process in their “native” language and English itself. They argue that English
should not be imposed in our students because they do not have the capacity to learn or acquire two languages at
the same time. They argue that this “English imposition” is responsible for impoverishing the Puerto Rican
culture as well. They still see English as the strategy of the political party that defends a permanent union
(statehood) with the United States to bring our society closer to that political status.
Students nowadays are not really aware of this history or they do not see English as a threat. They
recognize English as what it is; a language; a tool needed for their professional development. Students are aware
that English is the language of globalization and that sooner or later they will need it to succeed or rise in this
industrial world.
In a research I recently conducted, I was surprised with the answers of the students who expressed
(through a questionnaire I provided) that they wanted to learn English; that English was really important in their
life. They even want to add more classes and make some changes to their curriculum in order to become more
fluent and be more prepared and confident in English.
As researcher and theorists have stated and proved, human beings have the natural
capacity for
language. They have the awareness and motivation needed to learn other languages. I found that in my
research. But, it is our system that is not providing them the opportunity to gain the knowledge learning
language provides them. We need to have faith in our students and we also have to give them what is naturally
theirs; knowledge.
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Interview of the Month
A New Direction
A Conversation with Dr. Denise Rodríguez
By Omaris Sanjurjo
1. Can you tell us your area of
expertise and how many years
you’ve been teaching?
Of course, I can. At the
Bachelor’s Degree level, I graduated
from our program at the elementary
school level. I taught English as a
second language in the public school
system, here in Puerto Rico, for
eleven years beginning in the rural
area in both San Lorenzo and
Juncos. During these years, I taught
from the first to the sixth grade
levels, and the seventh through the
ninth grade levels before I had
finished my degree.
It was a wonderful
experience where I was challenged
not only in my academic knowledge
and the pedagogy involved in the
sharing of that knowledge, but also
at the deep, personal level. I made
dramatic discoveries about myself,
my students, about teaching, and my
vocation to the art. Today, I look
back at those times and wonder
what my students then would think
if they knew that they had been
teaching me as much, or more, as
they were learning from me. They
formed the teacher and contributed
to the human being I am today.
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At the Masters Degree
level, I graduated from City College in New York City where I
completed the degree in Education in English at the Secondary
School Level with a Concentration
in Language and Literacy. While I
was doing this, I taught Business
English to adults trying to make a
new start in life at the East Harlem
Council for Community Improvement’s Bilingual Institute, for a
time. I also taught English at Taft
High School in the Bronx. This
was approximately an eight year
span of time in my professional
life. Both these experiences yielded
very high dividends for me in the
sense that my grasp of the
knowledge, pedagogy , and human
insight that is inherent to teaching
grew in leaps.
Teaching English to students of
different ethnic and cultural backgrounds is quite a challenge.
After this, I came back to
Puerto Rico, taught in the public
high schools in San Lorenzo, and
was recruited by Humacao University College.
I completed my Doctor’s
Degree in Curriculum and Teaching with a Specialization in the
Teaching of English as a Second
Language at the University of
Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. There
are so many things I can say to describe this part of my career that I
am afraid this interview will be too
long.
It was during this time,
after I had served as a Senator for
the English Department at the
UPRH Academic Senate, that our
present Chancellor, Dr. Hilda Colón Plumey, asked me to join her
administration as the Dean for
Academic Affairs. After that, I returned to the English Department
and started the work towards the
accreditation of our department
and the Education Department, as
a unit, by NCATE.
2. How does it feel to be the
new director of the English
Department?
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Once again, I am facing a
challenge. However, I feel
confident about my role because I
know this institution a lot more
than I used to and from many
different perspectives. I know
that the English Department will
step up to the plate in the many
tasks and responsibilities we share
as a department and as professionals called to service.
My appointment as
Director came as a result of the
consultation process that took
place at the Academic Dean’s
Office. In this process, the
Academic Dean interviews
participants from the different
components of the English
Department that wish to express
themselves about who they would
like to occupy this position and
why. Then the Academic Dean
makes a recommendation to the
Chancellor. Therefore, I think I
can feel the decision was not
arbitrary.
3. How was the English Department before? What is or
was your perception of it?
The English Department
was and still is a very busy
department. Despite the fact that
we usually have to shoulder an
academic overload, we get what
has to be done accomplished
without sacrificing the quality of
our course offerings.
In the past, I have been
in the position to call my
colleagues to service and we have
met the demands of our system,
its accrediting councils and our
academic senate successfully. This
is how I view my department.
4. What do you expect of the would you make for the English
department as their new education in P.R.?
Before I even considered
director? What are your goals
change,
I think I would study what
for the English Department?
I expect my department to
continue working together to
achieve goals that we have
formulated based on our own
studies. I also expect us to comply
with systemic mandates or, if our
unit’s individual academic
character makes that difficult, I
expect our department to provide
the evidence to support our
language planners in Puerto Rico have
discovered and analyze the
implications those findings might
have for our system. The political,
social, and economic role English has
in the global arena has shed a
different light on how it bears upon
our society. We need to understand
that before we consider change.
7. Compare the bilingual education of New York and Puerto
Rico. Which do you prefer and
why?
I’m not too sure the methods
used in Puerto Rico promote or
support bilingualism as it manifests in
our society.
8. What do you expect of the
English Students’ Association?
divergence in a professional,
academic manner. As professional
educators, we owe it to ourselves,
the students, the institution, and
the system to which we made a
commitment to upon
appointment.
5. What is your perception of
the English education in P.R.?
I think that our education
system is based on a theoretically
sound foundation. However, the
adaptation of those theories to our
everyday lives, as well as the
implementation of the methods
and strategies those theories imply
for the Puerto Rican people, has
been and continues to be a
challenge.
6. If you were the Secretary of
Education, what changes
The ESA was created to
maximize the benefits of peer
influence on student development
and achievement. It also provides a
forum for development of skills, in
collaboration and cooperation, that
enable students to exercise their
participation in the society at large.
These and other experiences that are
both co-curricular and extra- curricular
are vital to the formation of our
students which is ultimately the
responsibility of any academic
institution.
I expect the ESA to provide
the forum to contribute significantly
to this shared task for the English
Department students.
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U n iv e rsi ty of P ue r to R ic o a t Hu m ac ao
By Eduardo Ayala
B L AC K D A H L I A
Coming Soon
This movie is inspired by a novel of the most notorious
unsolved murder in California history. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee
Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett),
are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen
B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black
Dahlia". It was an attack so grisly that images of the killing were
kept from the public. While Blanchard's growing preoccupation
with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay
(Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself
attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank),
the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families, who
just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder
victim. All this make us wait till’ September 14 here in Puerto
Rico. The Black Dahlia, a must see thriller on this fall.
Now Playing in Theaters:
John Tucker Must Die
August 31
Crank
August 31
The Wicker Man
September 7
The Covenant
September 7
Jet Lee’s Fearless
September 7
The Last Kiss
September
All The King’s Men
September
The Guardian
September
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The Descent
Snake on a Plane
The Lost City
Talladega Nights
World Trade Center
The Ant Bully
Zoom
Pulse
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The Creative Writing program in English at The University of Texas at Austin offers two-year Master of Arts degrees in poetry or fiction. Our program is complemented by a nationally-renowned department of literature, the UT
English Department, and one of the world's largest archives for twentieth-century literature, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
At UT Austin, original home of the National Translation Center and one of the most important cross-cultural institutions in the country, we recognize that "English" literature is an international phenomenon and not merely a result of Anglo-American practices. The UT Creative Writing Concentration is dedicated to that vision and offers
semester-long workshops taught by writers from around the world.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/graduate_programs/
The Department of English offers three graduate degrees: the MA in English, the MFA in Creative Writing,
and the PhD in English.
The Department is unique for the diversity of its course
offerings and the flexibility in the design of its graduate
programs. In addition to offerings in the traditional
literary periods and Creative Writing, interdisciplinary
areas of particular strength include film studies, media
and technology studies, cultural studies, children’s literature and culture, rhetoric and composition, and
postcolonial studies.
The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
is one of the largest scholarly libraries in the Southeast
and holds a number of important collections in areas of
relevance to students in English.
http://web.english.ufl.edu/
Graduate Programs in English
A leading national center for the study of literature,
language, and writing, the Department of English
welcomes qualified applicants who wish to pursue
advanced study. Students take a varied curriculum
to earn an M.A. or a Ph.D. degree in English and
American literature, emphasizing literary history
and criticism. The department offers creative writing students in fiction and poetry a choice between
an M.A. degree in English with a concentration in
creative writing or an M.F.A. degree.
Students attend lectures, forums, readings, and
discussions. Many advanced graduate students receive support to present their research and writing
at national conventions and publish papers and
creative writing in scholarly journals and national
magazines.
http://english.fas.nyu.edu/page/graduate
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Web Sites for Teachers
http://teachers.net/lessons/
Lessons plans posted by teachers from Kinder to
12th grade.
Join today!
puertoricotesol.org
A.Word.A.Day
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Nudiustertian
(nu-di-uhs-TUR-shuhn)
Adjective
Lessons plans for all classes and Homeworks
http://www.teach-nology.com/
teachers/lesson_plans/
from Wordsmith.org
Answer:
Of or relating to the day before
yesterday.
[From Latin nudius tertius, literally, today is the third day.]
Lessons plans, homeworks and other activities
http://getworksheets.com/
Over 10,500 worksheets, lesson plans, printable,
templates, activities.
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Laugh out Loud!
Resource:
http://www.teach-nology.com/jokes/education.html
A man writing at the post office desk was
approached by an older fellow with a post
card in his hand. The old man said, "Sir, I'm
sorry to bother you but could you address
this post card for me? My arthritis is acting
up today and I can't even hold a pen."
"Certainly sir,' said the younger man, "I'd
be glad to."
He wrote out the address and also agreed
to write a short message and sign the card
for the man. Finally, the younger man
asked, "Now, is there anything else I can do
for you?"
The old fellow thought about it for a moment and said, "Yes, at the end could you
just add, 'PS: Please excuse the sloppy
hand-writing.'?"
An English teacher asked her class to write
an essay on what they'd do if they had a
million dollars. Alec handed in a blank sheet
of paper. "Alec!" yelled the teacher, "you've
done nothing. Why?"
"Because if I had a million dollars, that's
exactly what I would do!"
The Winter Break was over and the teacher was
asking the class about their vacations. She turned
to little Johnny and asked what he did over the
break.
"We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania," he replied.
"That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word,"
the teacher said. "Can you tell the class how you
spell 'Punxsutawney'?"
Little Johnny thought about it and said, "You know,
come to think of it, we went to Ohio."
A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back
to his desk to wait. Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor
noticed that one of the students had attached a
$100 bill to his test with a note saying "A dollar per
point."
The next class period, the professor handed the
tests back out. This student got back his test and
$64 change.
"Johnny, where's your homework?" Miss Martin said sternly to the little boy while holding out her hand.
"My dog ate it," was his solemn response.
"Johnny, I've been a teacher for eighteen years. Do you really expect me to believe that?"
"It's true, Miss Martin, I swear it is," insisted Johnny. "I had to smear it with honey, but I finally got him
to eat it."
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The Poetry Corner
Being Without You
I made my choice, I ended it
I felt I could not stay
Our problems were too great,
I had to get away
I did not want to fight no more
I couldn’t take the risk
Of going back to that dark place
Lost within an abyss
So, I made my choice, I ended it
It was not what I wanted to do
Believe me when I tell you this,
My heart also broke in two
My love was not a factor here,
It was always true
But my reasons made me think that love
Was not enough to be with you
I was wrong; I know it now
I’m sorry for what I did
But my decision was not mine alone,
You helped me make it
But being without you made me realize
How empty my life would be
My profound apologies
For not giving us an opportunity
With out distance I understood
That our problems can be resolved
All we have to do is talk
And try to understand
How to respect one another,
Giving each other a helping hand
With loving care and patience
Our relationship will grow
I know I made a choice
I ended it, I did
But thank you baby for giving us
Another chance
Fore being without you wasn’t easy
Lets just continue with our romance
By Brenda Vélez
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A Love like Rose
Have you ever seen a Rose in a garden?
So beautiful its crimson red color step out from the other
ones.
Have you ever smell a Rose in a garden?
It smells so sweet that intoxicates you.
Have you ever tried to touch a Rose?
It’s smooth and delicate petals, feels like velvet fabric.
Have you ever got hurt by a Rose?
Its thorns can hurt you to bleed, if you’re not careful when
you hold it.
Have you ever seen a death Rose?
Its petals start to wilt and they fell one by one, but the only
things that remain are the thorns.
And Love, have you ever got hurt by it?
At the beginning it is the most beautiful thing a human
being can experience.
It is so sweet that intoxicates you.
It makes you feel like you are in heaven, but if you are
careless with it you can get hurt to bleed by it.
With time love will start to wilt, but the thorns will remained in your hurt as a memory of that unforgotten Love.
By Rocio Fernández
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How Much Do I Really Love
NATURE
D D Garcia
Nothing is more precious than nature
A living piece of art that keep us wondering about the
True meaning of life and the purpose of all the
Unseen mysteries that lies in so many different paths
Rivers, mountains, heaven and earth a great combination of
Everlasting beauty that brings together a perfect harmony of the elements of life
My Darling…
This is what I know now
I wouldn’t live without you
Even if I knew how!
MGR.Star
I am the fire
You’ve tainted my mere existence
I love you with every breath
I’m contaminated by your essence
I dread I’ll love you till death
that burns in your heart.
I am the crimson red
that glows in your veins
I’m scared if I don’t have you
It disturbs me when you’re gone
I’m terrified when I think
That we just might be wrong
I am the air that you
breathe and the star
that you seek.
I am faraway and near
The truth I may not know
To this mystery that haunts my soul
However my heart is telling me
This love, I must let go
I am stern and docile,
strong and weak.
I am the love
I know I love you this much…
Enough to succumb & yield
So much sometimes it hurts
Countless as grains of sand
This love, my soul it lures
and the carrier of your heir.
Seek for me once
Seek for me more than once.
I’ll leave your heart to guide you
Even if it leads amiss
I have no right to hold you
My love,
I’ll say good-bye with a kiss
You will find me
and beyond me.
I am the truth.
I am the lie.
I am the everything you need.
Am I capable of telling you
How much I really love you?
I’ve said it once I’ve said twice
And yet I can’t seem to get it right
OSR
To: LG w/Luv
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More Poetry...
The Poison Inside
Can you feel it?
The poison flowing in your veins
Slowly eating your skin away
Feel your life breaking
In this uncertain road I’m stumbling
The clock is taking away
Every time I take a breath
The poison corrodes you inside
It’s inevitable, you will die
What can we do in this life?
There is nothing to like
I suddenly feel I want everyone to die
Nothing worthy to hold on to
There’s so much that we’ve been through
I feel my life fading away
I just to want to get away
From every kind of pain
Start a new faraway
Along cold night
Were waiting but the sun won’t rise
The poison within our lives
Can you take it or do you want to die?
You feel it inside
As slowly clouding the mind
Creeping inside our hearts
Taking everything in sight
What we hold dear
Is no longer clear
All the black tears
All of these fears
The poison creates
Dark thoughts that make us break
The road full of snakes
This road that we’ve been forced to take
Nothing good can come of it
Darks hearts scheming to kill
Everything we love they want to steal
When we will see the end?
I barely have the strength to stand
Cannot find the cure
Because of this poison our hearts are no longer pure
Our only wish is for a new life
A new start, a clean heart
By Gilberto Vega
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Balance
Without light
There is no darkness that would overwhelm
anyone’s heart desire
Without War
How could we rejoice in Peace
Nor in the victory of every loss in the scheme
Without sky
there would be no ground.
As without humbleness
How can one be proud
Without good
There is no evil
As without rules there are no perpetrators
Without hate there would be no love
And without love we are mere empty shells
So be the light in my darkness
Be the peace in my war
Be the proud northern sky
Teach me every simple thing in life
So hate me, and do so with passion
for that very passion will lead you
to love
Alexander G.
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Poetry in History
Sonnet: How do I love thee?”
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
How do I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee with the purely, as they turn from
Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,— I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett) was born at Cohnadatia Hall
(now demolished) near Durham England in 1806, the daughter of Creole plantation owner Edward
Moulton Barret, who assumed the last name "Barrett" on succeeding to the estates of his grandfather in
Jamaica he was christened in Kelloe church, where a plaque describes her as 'a great poetess, a noble
woman, a devoted wife'. Her mother was Mary Graham-Clarke of a wealthy family of Newcastle upon
Tyne. She is one of the descendents of King Edwards III of England. Resource: Poets.org
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EXPRESS!!!
It’s annoying to come everyday to school and spend 20
minutes looking for parking!
What’s wrong Puerto Rico?
Where’s the money of my
construction quota?
Anonymous
This message goes to all those men who treat the women that
love them like s%@#!!! This is for you, you the one who with
happiness has made my life bits and pieces… But guess what
Big One you’ve made me stronger.
Anonymous
Well, here are the choices of my favorite Bond movies to
see: From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your
Eyes Only, License to Kill, Goldeneye. Here there are…
enjoy. Those are my choices as a Bond fan.
Gabriel Camacho
To all my
friends of the
ESA, I love you
all! Because
you have been
a new reason
for my to live,
you have made
my life happier
one by one and
for always been
there, taking
care of me. I
thank you all
for that!!
Love you Mary
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Gatito, Gatito…
How is it that you’ve
managed to make me
dislike what I so much
loved about you?!
The covenant arise from
the shadows a far to rule,
to shine, to light the path
of the lost ones. For the
priestesses to all let’s rise
again, strong, powerful,
Alive! To those who understand, Blessed be!
Love Charmed
Everyday I think of you, I just wanted you to know.
That everyday when I’ am with you I love you more
and more.
Bb
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"Ultimately,
man
should not ask what
the meaning of his
life is, but rather
must recognize that
it is he who is asked.
In a word, each man is
questioned by life;
and he can only
answer to life by
answering for his
own life; to life he
can only respond by
being responsible."
-Man's Search for Meaning
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N.C.A.T.E. PROJECT NEWS
The Teacher Education Unit Achievement
Institutional
Goals
Objectives for NCATE
ACCREDITATION
1.1 Submit the “Intent to
A. That graduates attain
the excellence, in both
their general and professional education, that will
enable them to achieve
their utmost development;
as well as the ability to
respond to the demands of
dynamic and technologically advanced society.
Seek NCATE
Accreditation” form.
Focus on compliance
to Pre-conditions 4 – 6
A. Design format
to facilitate work
by each department on the
Conceptual
Framework
B. Assign workload to
staff in each
department
C. Align
departmental
conceptual
frameworks to
produce unit
framework
D. Design format
to facilitate
1.1 Periodic Reports
(documenting the implementation of strategies described in
action plans to ensure departments’ progression towards
meeting NCATE standards)
appropriate
deadlines ( beginning
in November ) to
distribute workload
distribute workload in
Systems to
produce unit
AS
G. Compile
official
documents for
pre –
condition # 6
1.3 Compile official
documents for pre –
conditions 1 - 9
Pending input from both
departments
E. Work Schedule with
System
Assessment
1.2 (F) Assessment System contained in the
Conceptual Framework
Draft
D. Description of the Assessment System for each Department
November ) to
departmental
Conceptual Framework
draft completed. Sent to
both departments for
reaction and/or revision
recommendations on May
25, 2006
C. Retreat for both departments to begin process of institutionalizing teacher education
accreditation processes
the Assessment
F. Align
Letter acknowledging
receipt from Dr. Wise,
President NCATE is on
file
in each department
( beginning in
department
Conceptual Framework
Retreat held on Feb. 24,
2006
Comments
B. Work Schedule with
department on
workload
1.1 Intent to Seek
NCATE Accreditation
submitted
1.2 Tentative timeline
appropriate deadlines
to staff in each
Results
A. Conceptual Framework
Grid
work by each
E. Assign
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Expected Outcome
each department
F. Description of Unit Assessment System
G. Documentation of precondi- PENDING
tion 6 ready to submit to
NCATE
1.3. Documentation of all 9
preconditions ready to submit
to NCATE three semesters
prior to visit.
PENDING
To be programmed for
2006-7
To be programmed for
2006-7
The English Student’s Association Newsletter
August
Thursday 24—Grammar Workshop of APA and
MLA Style
Tuesday 29— Grammar Workshop of Verbs
Thursday 31— Bake Sale!
September
Thursday 7— Autumn Poetry
Monday 11— Newsletter September Issue Release
Thursday 14— Writing Contest
Tuesday 26— Comedy Stand Night
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The English
Students’
Association
University of Puerto Rico
@ Humacao
CUH Station
English Department
Humacao, Puerto Rico
00972
Phone: 787.850.9337
Fax: 787.850.9582
I
n 1985, a group of students from the English Department had the
great desire to form an organization in which they could put their
talents to use.
After many efforts and with the help of our professors, the ESA was
born on March 4th, 1985.
Today, twenty years later, we have an organization that is working towards
the advancement of English in Puerto Rico. We are proud that after so
many years we can say that our mission is still the same. We want to help
you become a better student by learning how to speak the English language
correctly.
It’s up to you… Become a member TODAY!!
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