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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hyattsville, University Park, Mt. Rainier, College Park,
Greenbelt, Riverdale Park, and many neighboring communities enjoy the benefits and opportunities provided by the Hyattsville Middle School Creative Performing Arts Program. One major within the program, Creative Writing, is inexplicably slated to be cancelled. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Please
join the HMS PTSO in contacting our elected officials and select PGCPS staff, stressing the importance of the program and your desire to see Creative Writing reinstated as a major effective immediately. To help you in this effort, we provide sample language
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Meeting to speak or simply demonstrate your support. For more information and to register to speak, visit: www.pgcps.org/board/</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Subject: Reinstate CPA Creative Writing Major at Hyattsville Middle School</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am extremely upset to find out that the Creative Writing Major at Hyattsville
Middle School (HMS) had been eliminated. The Creative Writing Major had been an important and successful part of HMS's Creative and Performing Arts Program for years. Past students have received honors and awards for their work. Creative writing is not only
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reinstate the program to ensure a seamless start to the 2017-2018 academic year. Please contact Dr. Maxwell to let him know that you support the reinstatement of the Creative Writing Major. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Dannielle Glaros</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">alonzo.washington@house.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Anne Healey</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Delegate, District 22</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">anne.healey@house.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Paul Pinski</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">paul.pinsky@senate.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Jim Rosapepe</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">jim.rosapepe@senate.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Ben Barnes</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Delegate, District 21</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">ben.barnes@house.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Barbara Frush</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Delegate, District 21</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">barbara.frush@house.state.md.us</font></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Talking
Points, Questions and Answers</span></b></p>
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for the reinstatement of the CPA Creative Writing Major at Hyattsville Middle School
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be concise and clear about what you want</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be passionate and make it personal to you and your child</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Back up your position with facts and data.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Consider what matters to your audience</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don’t be rude</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be positive. Couch this as building on the successes of HMS.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Immediately reinstate the Creative Writing Major at Hyattsville
Middle School, and open the application for Fall 2017.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Creative Writing major was eliminated according to John
Ceschini and Anita Lambert</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The application is not available on the PGCPS website</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There was no formal communication or public input leading
up to the decision</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There was no formal communication after the decision was
made</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Creative writing is a discipline that includes Poetry, Plays,
Movie and television scripts, Fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories), Songs, Speeches, Memoirs, and Personal essays</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Movies and Television is a $300 billion industry; publishing
is a $30 billion industry</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Creative writing majors are part of Master of Fine Arts programs
at Ivy League schools (Brown, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell), top State schools (Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Virginia), top private Universities (Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt)
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Writing and the CW Major to our children, and why should we save it?</span></u></p>
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and writing to students and families</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Teaching CW takes special knowledge, skills, and dedicated
time. It can’t be taught in other courses.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CW develops skills for self-expression, effective communication,
empathy, critical and analytical thinking, and improves vocabulary.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CW, like other forms of art, are important outlet for kids
who may not have other talents like music, theater or visual arts.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CW can lead to future professional opportunities</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A CW Major allows like-minded students a venue to learn from
each other and push each other to improve.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A CW Major as part of the CPA draws students from diverse
background and enriches the school as a whole</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why is an elective in
Creative Writing insufficient?</span></u></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">An elective is a hobby, a major is a commitment to excellence</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Electives are limited by student and faculty schedules and
not guaranteed</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Electives cannot substitute continuous learning, improvement,
and concentration over a two-year period.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Limited opportunities for electives and the lack of rigor
in electives</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Electives are only available to HMS students. It would increase inequity if
other schools do not start a CW program</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Responses to PGCPS rationale
for ending the Creative Writing Major</span></u></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We wanted to align the CPA curriculum
across the county.” </span></p>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Different schools have different programs and there is nothing wrong with that.
Since Thomas Pullen and Benjamin Foulois both have K-8 arts program, why doesn’t Hyattsville Elementary and Hyattsville Middle School 6<sup>th</sup> graders have that same opportunity? Additionally, Pullen has Computer Arts in addition to Media Production.
</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The CW Program has a waitlist and is highly successful with students receiving
honors and awards. Why eliminate a successful program?</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eliminating the program would eliminate the only intensive PGCPS program that
promotes excellence in reading and writing. This is counter to PGCPS emphasis on literacy.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What evaluations have been done on the program? What were the results?
</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“It would be unfair to schools that don’t have a CW program”
</span></p>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Many schools have special programs unique to them or few others. For example,
Russian Language is taught at Greenbelt ES, University Park has Italian but other local elementary schools do not have that opportunity.</span></p>
</li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We encourage other schools to develop a CW program. CW programs would also help
English Language Learners (ELL) to put vocabulary and grammar into a cultural context that would help in language mastery.</span></p>
</li><li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eliminating the CW program does not increase fairness since NO ONE would have
the opportunity to excel in creative writing.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“There is not a CW program in high school where students can go after middle
school.” </span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why does that matter? Students have a chance to learn skills not taught elsewhere
</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why not create a CW program in high school VPA programs?</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stimulating early interest in writing is important, and students
can pursue higher education and careers after high school.</span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> W</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ell
over 500 colleges offer either a BA, BFA or MFA in CW.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CW enable students to communicate effectively and creatively. This will help
students in any high school course work that requires writing such as English, History, and many other classes.
</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">High schools have other CW outlets – literary magazines, newspapers, theater/drama</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“CW is not part of the defined set of disciplines identified by Maryland State
Department of Education.”</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CW fits in all Fine Arts definitions</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although the Maryland College and Career Ready Curriculum (CCRC) Framework for
English Language Art does not use the term “Creative Writing,” an entire section (Section W3 CCR Anchor Standard) is dedicated to the discipline of creative writing and related competencies. The rubric states, “Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.” (</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a id="LPlnk899539" href="http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/share/frameworks/CCSC_Writing_gr6-8.pdf" previewremoved="true"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><font color="#0563c1">http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/share/frameworks/CCSC_Writing_gr6-8.pdf</font></span></a></span><br>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Anne Arundel county has it. Montgomery County offers it as part of a Middle
School TAG curriculum.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We need to add keyboard to HMS CPA.”
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adding keyboard would be great, but it is not a replacement for CW</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">HMS has a keyboard elective</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If a student wants keyboard major, he or she can apply to Pullen.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The
HMS community values the Creative Writing major</span></p>
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<p>Bart Lawrence</p>
<p>Hyattsville, MD<br>
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