Arizona English Teachers Association
1285 North Wakonda Street
Flagstaff AZ 86004
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Permit No. 308
ATTENTION: English, Language Arts, Literacy Teachers
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Buried Onions or Buried Treasure?
Today’s Teachers Helping Students Unearth Meaning
2005 Arizona English Teachers Association (AETA)
Annual Statewide Conference
Co-sponsored by the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD)
Office of Professional Development and Academics
October 7-8, 2005
Rincon/University High School
421 N. Arcadia
Tucson, AZ 85711
Buried Onions
Buried Onions is a moving young
adult (YA) novel about the struggle
of a Mexican American teenager to
make sense of his world—a world
filled with difficulties and sadness.
Soto’s metaphor of the “onion”
speaks simply and eloquently to the
pain that grows in the earth.
Students in any culture will
empathize with the young hero who
must find a way to escape the fate
that his family, friends and culture
attempt to determine for him.
Buried Onions or
Buried Treasure?
Today’s Teachers
Helping Students
Unearth Meaning
2005 Arizona English
Teachers Association
(AETA)
Annual Statewide
Conference
Co-sponsored by the
Tucson Unified School
District TUSD Office of
Professional Development
and Academics
Additional Works by Gary Soto
Fiction
 Baseball in April (MS-YA)
 Jesse (YA-HS)
 Taking Sides (YA-MS)
 Pacific Crossing (YA-MS)
 Afterlife (YA-HS)
Poetry
 Canto Familiar
 Black Hair
 A Natural Man
Non-Fiction
 Living Up the Street
(biography)
Register now and don’t
miss out!
October 7-8, 2005
Tucson
Rincon/University High
School
421 N. Arcadia
Tucson, AZ 85711
2005 Arizona English Teachers Association (AETA)
Annual Statewide Conference
October 7-8, 2005
Tucson Rincon/University High School
421 N. Arcadia
Tucson, AZ 85711
Please register by October 1st or your place in workshops, session or meals cannot be guaranteed. All
participants and presenters are expected to register and pay conference fees.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
AETA Membership:
Individuals/professionals
Individual membership outside the U.S.
Full-time students
Conference Fees:
Full Conference before Oct. 1st:*
Full Conference after Oct. 1st:*
$40.00 ___
50.00 ___
20.00 ___
(members) $95.00 ___
(nonmembers) 140.00 ___
(members) $100 ___
(nonmembers) 150 ___
Friday only Conference Package: (members and nonmembers)
Saturday only Package:
Student Registration
$40 ___
(members) $70 ___
(nonmembers) $115 ___
(members) $30 ___
(nonmembers) $50 ___
TOTAL SUBMITTED___________
*Includes both Friday and Saturday continental breakfast, lunch and snacks
Payment. You may pay online by going the AETA website http://www.asu.edu/aeta/ and following the conference
PayPal instruction menu. Or you may send purchase orders and checks payable to “AETA” to:
Jean Boreen, Executive Secretary
1285 N. Wakonda St.
Flagstaff AZ 86004
Name
Phone
Address
E-mail
Level(s)
___Elementary ____Middle/Junior High
School Affiliation
District
Are you participating in the conferences as:
___Presenter ___Facilitator ___Attendee
FAX
____ High School
___College/University
Greetings!
On behalf of the Arizona English Teachers Association, we want to welcome you to our
Fall Conference at Rincon/University High School in Tucson. The theme of this year’s
conference is Buried Onions or Buried Treasure? Today’s Teachers Helping Students
Unearth Meaning, with featured speaker and author of Buried Onions--Gary Soto.
At Rincon /University High School, we will come together to share ideas, to talk about our
discipline, to support and empower each other as well as honor some of our own. As
conference planners, we feel fortunate that we have been able to assemble this group of
presenters and resources. We hope you will see this conference as celebration of good
teaching, innovative ideas, and collegiality. We look forward to the wisdom, insight and
encouragement of one of America’s most gifted authors, Gary Soto.
We are proud to have this conference co-sponsored by the Tucson Unified School
District. We are deeply appreciative of the Office of Professional Development and
Academics and our colleagues at Rincon/ University High School who are sharing their
classrooms with us.
We look forward to meeting and working with you and it is our hope that your conference
will be informative, enjoyable and maybe even a bit inspiring.
Mary Setliff, NBCT, Palo Verde High School
Vonda Douros, Show Low High School
Ann Guido, NBCT, Catalina Foothills High School
For additional information, contact your Conference Co-chairs
Mary Setliff
4321 N. Rio Cancion #217
Tucson, AZ 85718
bjeanbiley@aol.com
Vonda Douros
Show Low High School
500 Old Linden Road
Show Low, AZ 85901
vondadouros@yahoo.com
Ann Guido
3556 E. Presidio Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85716
anieguido@hotmail.com
Special
Conference
Features
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Friday workshops will include sessions on the works of Gary Soto.
Specific books and classroom activities will be discussed. Handouts
will be provided and each session will feature a visit from Gary Soto.
Other special features and workshops will include:
Strategies for incorporating multi-cultural literature. Sessions will
include Native American Oral histories and demonstrate kinesthetic,
visual, and auditory learning processes. Exemplary lessons, including
interdisciplinary instruction will be highlighted and practical
applications following the Arizona Standards and Strands will be
discussed.

Open Microphone for all on Friday 6:30 - 8:00
Stay for the lasagna dinner (5:15) and join us for this “coffee house” event, a casual evening of
coffee, dessert and teachers sharing their own writing.
Bring an original work to read (please restrict reading to three minutes).

Publisher Exhibit (Saturday)
Publisher and textbook representatives will exhibit and demonstrate instructional materials.

Lesson Plan Share
Bring 75 copies of your most successful lesson or teaching idea to share. Submit copies at the
registration desk and collect one from every contributor.

Workshops will include presenters from the Arizona Department of
Education and schools and universities from through the state,
including Arizona DOE Title I, Academic Achievement Division and
Indian Education Program Specialists, Tucson Unified Schools,
Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and University of
Arizona graduate students and professors and outstanding middle
and high school teachers from Tucson to Flagstaff.

Panel discussions will include:
o AIMS and assessment
o Teachers and administrators will discuss responses to censorship issues
o Presentations by La Rasa and participants in the Southern Arizona Writing Project
(AETA) Annual Statewide
Conference
October 7-8, 2005
Buried Onions or Buried Treasure?
Today’s Teachers Helping Students Unearth Meaning
FRIDAY SCHEDULE and SESSION TOPICS
Conference Registration
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2:30-5:00
RUHS Cafeteria
Concurrent Workshops: Series A
3:10 - 4:00
Session A1
Encouraging Student Writers with Gary Soto, Guest Author
Session A2
Sheltered English Instruction (SEI) in the English Language Arts Classroom
Session A3
Using Nature as Text
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Concurrent Workshops: Series B
4:10 - 5:00
Session B1
Vivir en el aqui y ahora! (Carpe diem!)
Session B2
Teaching strategies and Lesson Ideas for Gary Soto’s Collection of
Short Stories--Help Wanted
Session B3
Thinking Maps: Unbury Reading Comprehension and “See” What Lies
Beneath Using 8 Graphic Organizers to Increase Understanding.
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Dinner
5:15-6:30
RUHS Cafeteria
Dinner Catered by Alex Sanchez Catering of Tucson
A Special Presentation by Rincon University High School Student Salsa Club
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A Celebration of Writing
6:30-8:00
Emcee: Roger Shanley, Director of the Southern Arizona Writing Project
Presentation of AETA Teachers as Writers Awards
Members Open Mike Readings
Reading by Gary Soto
Refreshments
SATURDAY SCHEDULE and SESSION TOPICS
Registration, Publisher Exhibits, Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00
RUHS Cafeteria
Concurrent Workshops: Series C
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9:00 - 9:50
Session C1
Using Multi-disciplinary, Multicultural English, Art and History in the Writing
Process
Session C2
The Race Against Run-ons
Session C3
Multigenre Writing in the Middle School Classroom
Session C4
What does Social Justice and Equity have to do with AIMS?
Session C5
Administering Diversity: Addressing Issues of Difference & Inequality
Publisher Exhibits
Opening Session
_________
__
10:00 – 11:00
Auditorium
Welcome by AETA President Lee Brown
Greeting by Conference Chair Mary Setliff
Distinguished Service Award Recognition
Ken Donelson Outstanding Teacher Award
NCTE Developing Leader Award
Concurrent Workshops: Series D
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11:10 - 12:00
Session D1
Hypertextual Essays and Hyper-Plagiarism: A New Challenge for Academic
Writing in the 21st Century
Session D2
Gary Soto on His Work with Featured Author Gary Soto
Session D3
Incorporating Cooperative Learning into Your Teaching of
College Composition
Session D4
Writing the AIMS essay – As Easy as 12323!
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Publisher Exhibits
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Lunch
____12:00-12:50
Box lunch catered by Egee’s.
Book Signing by Gary Soto
Publisher Exhibits
AETA Lesson Exchange
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Concurrent Workshops: Series E
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1:10 - 2:00
Session E1
Promising Young Adult Writers: Book Talks
Session E2
Place Writing: Creating a Guidebook in First-Year Composition
Session E3
TUSD’s Mexican America/Raza Studies Department: Tri-Dimensionalization
and the Nurturing of Chicana/o Transformative Intellectuals
Session E4
Using a Smartboard to Teach Reading
Concurrent Workshops: Series F
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2:10 - 3:00
Session F1
Why You Are Being Forced to Study SEI: A Question of Academic Freedom
Session F2
From “Huh?” to “Oh!: Forming Arguments
Session F3
Transformative Resistance and Latina/o Youth: Towards a Critical
Compassionate Intellectualism (CCI) of Urban Education
Session F4
Collaborative Writing Strategies: What’s in Your Bag of Tricks?
Session F5
Japan Fulbright Memorial Foundation Opportunities for English Teachers
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Conference Closing
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3:00-3:30
A Look to 2006 by President Lee Brown
Final Remarks and Appreciations by Your Conference Co-chairs
Door Prizes
Buried Onions or Buried Treasure?
Today’s Teachers Helping Students Unearth Meaning
Conference Location and Directions
Tucson Rincon/University High School
421 N. Arcadia
Tucson, AZ 85711
Directions
Location
Take I-10 toward TUCSON.
Take EXIT 257 toward
SPEEDWAY BLVD / UNIV OF ARIZONA.
Stay STRAIGHT to go onto N
FREEWAY RD.
Turn LEFT onto W SPEEDWAY
BLVD.
Stay STRAIGHT to go onto E
SPEEDWAY BLVD.
Turn RIGHT onto N SWAN RD.
Turn LEFT onto E 5TH ST.
Turn RIGHT onto N ARCADIA
AVE.
End at RUHS, 421 N Arcadia
Ave.
Viscount Suite Hotel
4855 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85711
Toll-Free: 800-527-9666
Phone #1: 520-745-6500
Fax: 520-790-5114
Website:
www.viscountsuite.com
The Viscount, which is within walking distance of Rincon University
High School, has agreed to be the official AETA Conference hotel and
has made rooms available at the special rate of $76.00 for Friday
night.
To make a reservation, call 800-527-9666 and remind them that you
are an AETA member when you make your reservation.