Wondering how much the Y2 documents are different than the Y3 docoments. Meaning...I know you added all the information for Y3 so that is very much different. But...the information that is there for Y2 did that change at all?
I printed out Y2. Will I be able to add the new stuff from Y3 to our Frameworks and Poetics Document and have pages match up? Or did you edit and change around the information that we already have?
Thanks,
Barb Spanier
I'd loved to know this, too!!! Yikes, the school year is looming (no pun intended) and what to do about P and F is still on my to-do list! Thanks!
You DEFINITELY want to print out Poetics and Frameworks information from the year-plan that you have. Yes, it does change significantly from year to year... and I'm working on reconciling all four years so that they use the same version of Poetics/Frameworks. However, since that's not done yet, you will find yourself with a lot of headaches if you try to use a Y3 or Y4 version of Poetics or Frameworks in Y2. My own students just read their Poetics and Frameworks assignments on the computer, if that helps!
Christy Somerville
It seems to me that the first 79 pages of Poetics are almost identical in year 2 and 3 (the only 2 Poetics years I have to compare). I made the mistake of printing pp. 1-85 of year 3 after reading this post, THEN decided to compare since it all looked so familiar. Am I wrong that they're nearly identical? The appendices are different since the genres are different, but those first 79 or so pages look very much alike to me.
Yes and no, Bonnie. A LOT of the text is the same, but each year we updated various explanations and definitions, added new sections and removed or combined others. So, if you print one version and try to use it in another year, a lot of it will be close... maybe even identical. But there will also be a number of small discrepancies which you may find quite frustrating. Let me put it this way... even though I wrote Poetics and Frameworks, and I'm teaching all four year-plans at once this year (to four different classes), I still don't dare to teach everybody from any one year-plan's version of Poetics & Frameworks. Instead, I've created a master version that I'm painstakingly reconciling with four different class plans each week. So far, I've caught a LOT of differences between the four versions... and I'm only into the second week!
I hope very much to reconcile all versions of Poetics and Frameworks while I am teaching through all four year-plans during this school year, so hopefully there will soon be an update available (at least for DE customers!) which is one P&F document for all year plans and all year plans for one P&F document. But since we aren't quite there yet, I'm still advising everybody to 1) Read Poetics and Frameworks on the computer, if possible, and 2) If you MUST print the whole thing, print off the version that goes with the year you are using!
Anyway, that's my advice. Obviously you will need to do whatever works best for your family, but I hope these thoughts are helpful at least. :-)
Christy Somerville
Thanks for the clarification. That makes me feel better about having printed before actually checking for myself
Bonnie
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