You should see what our PLC is doing....I mean its some darn good work....I am pretty impressed. We are calling it Global Integration....and tomorrow they are reading a science article but doing the English and History way to read....We are putting all for content teachers in the room at the same time as all of the 9th graders and modeling how to read for understanding. Then in Oct we are taking ALL of our 9th and 10th graders to Kill Creek. There will be 10-12 stations, the sophomores will be in charge of the 9th graders to promote leadership and we are doing our typical math and science activities, just like last year. THIS year we are incorporating the English and History. They are reading Thoreau's poem as a model for descriptive writing and then they will have to write a description of Kill Creek. They will also write a persuasive essay at the end of this trip, picking a topic near and dear to their heart. And we have the history of the Sunflower Ammo Plant and the Brown Field, along with some mapping and prediction skills. And some Geo Caching, some Trig, classifications, measuring, area, volume, surface area, sampling populations, etc... This is like a well oiled machine, my team...I am in AWE and so happy to be working with them. And the kids like it sooo much better when everything connects and makes sense. Our goal is, in 4 years, we have incorporated all the core courses, as well as our engineering courses throughout our entire SLC. I think we can do it and I am pretty excited....