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Prince William County CTE Provides Rubin to English Department
Prince William County Schools in Virginia, a trusted Rubin partner, uses our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration video library across the district within CTE courses.
Now PWCS, under the guidance of CTE specialist Shawnell Carmichael, has shared Rubin with the English department to assist with digital literacy skills. Rubin covers writing topics like email etiquette, resumes, thank-you notes and how to sign your name in cursive.
Rubin is built for the CTE classroom but also addresses critical writing and literacy themes. PWCS has an overarching goal to collaborate across departments, and Rubin serves that purpose well.
“We are preparing students for life beyond high school,” said Carmichael. “This cannot be a sole job of a CTE teacher. English is also an ideal place to support employability skills for college and career.”
Here’s an example of a Rubin Emerge lesson that addresses literacy skills.
How to Remove Pronouns
Use the search function and look for the following pronouns: this, that, these and those. Ask yourself, “Could the reader become confused by the pronoun? Is so, delete and replace.
- “Sally gave me this to say thanks” becomes “Sally gave me the present to say thanks”
- “I wrote that to prove a point” becomes “I wrote the grammar lesson to prove a point”
- “These events are a good way to meet people” becomes “The networking events are a good way to meet people”
- “I did a lot of those at my internship” becomes “I did a lot of visits to client sites at my internship”
Additional pronouns to find: he, she, it, we, they, who, them, him, her, us
Identify the pronouns in this email:
Subject line: Did you get it?
Hi Jane,
Good morning.
Did you receive it yet? I sent all of them over to your office earlier this week.
When I called, she said the mail had not arrived, and I need to know ASAP if you have all of it.
Please let me know,
– John Doe
Complete your work
Submit a corrected version of the email from Step 2 by replacing at least four pronouns with nouns of your choosing (any noun you want).
Below the corrected email, list the four pronouns you removed.
Use the examples in Step 1 as a guide to correct the email.
Prince William County Schools in Virginia, a trusted Rubin partner, uses our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration video library across the district within CTE courses.
Now PWCS, under the guidance of CTE specialist Shawnell Carmichael, has shared Rubin with the English department to assist with digital literacy skills. Rubin covers writing topics like email etiquette, resumes, thank-you notes and how to sign your name in cursive.
Rubin is built for the CTE classroom but also addresses critical writing and literacy themes. PWCS has an overarching goal to collaborate across departments, and Rubin serves that purpose well.
“We are preparing students for life beyond high school,” said Carmichael. “This cannot be a sole job of a CTE teacher. English is also an ideal place to support employability skills for college and career.”
Here’s an example of a Rubin Emerge lesson that addresses literacy skills.
How to Remove Pronouns
Use the search function and look for the following pronouns: this, that, these and those. Ask yourself, “Could the reader become confused by the pronoun? Is so, delete and replace.
- “Sally gave me this to say thanks” becomes “Sally gave me the present to say thanks”
- “I wrote that to prove a point” becomes “I wrote the grammar lesson to prove a point”
- “These events are a good way to meet people” becomes “The networking events are a good way to meet people”
- “I did a lot of those at my internship” becomes “I did a lot of visits to client sites at my internship”
Additional pronouns to find: he, she, it, we, they, who, them, him, her, us
Identify the pronouns in this email:
Subject line: Did you get it?
Hi Jane,
Good morning.
Did you receive it yet? I sent all of them over to your office earlier this week.
When I called, she said the mail had not arrived, and I need to know ASAP if you have all of it.
Please let me know,
– John Doe
Complete your work
Submit a corrected version of the email from Step 2 by replacing at least four pronouns with nouns of your choosing (any noun you want).
Below the corrected email, list the four pronouns you removed.
Use the examples in Step 1 as a guide to correct the email.
