Fresh English: Character Slide Decks

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Character Slide Decks

Goal: Showing how much you understand traits and motivations of the complex characters in your book.

Agenda:
Read
That quiz that I tried to trick you with yesterday :)
Character slide decks

Quiz:

This is a one question, short-answer, quiz.
Please review the expectations for short answer questions: You must write 2-4 complete sentences. explain your answer, and use correct grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
You will need the password for the quiz. I will give you that in class.
START THE QUIZ

Character Slide Decks:

I have shared a slide deck with your group. (Everyone in your group should already have it.)
It is a template you must change to match a character in your book.
Work together (on different slides) to complete the profile of the character.

Homework:

Finish visual memoirs

Request (by email) any regrades of work you have improved recently.

Read your group novel. You need to be up to your first page goal by tomorrow.

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Gradebook Explained

My grade book is on Power School for you to view. There are some things you need to know.

If you have a blank score or missing score that is not bad. Often scores are left blank when I do not grade an assignment right away. Sometimes blanks mean a student was absent for an in class experience. The point is do not panic about blank or missing scores.

Zeros however, are a real problem. Students get zeros when they do not turn in an assignment that they should have done. Zeros usually appear after I have asked the student several times to get the work finished. Students can sometimes undo a zero by turning in the work late. Some assignments can be regraded. See the button at the top of the blog to request a re-grade.

Often I do not enter many assignments until the end of the grading period when projects we have been working on for a few weeks become due. I try to enter progress grades every few weeks into the "progress category." Note that the progress category is only 10% of the total grade. Low scores on progress grades indicates that a student needs to improve their work before the final project is due.

Grade categories are weighted as follows:

50% Writing & Speaking (Essays, some in class assessments, and speaking assignments.)

40% Reading & Listening (Book reviews and reading progress and some listening assessments.)

10% Progress (writing draft grades, turning in required paperwork, some formative assessments)

Student grades are based on meeting grade level standard proficiencies. This is not a points or numbers game. There is no extra credit, but there may be additional opportunities to show proficiency.

I hope this will resolve some confusion. Of course if you have questions about grades please e-mail me.

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Character Slide Decks

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