Fresh English: Novel Project Ideas and Book Reviews

Monday, November 14, 2016

Novel Project Ideas and Book Reviews

Goal: Generate project ideas and write book reviews

Read:
What will be your second book for this six-weeks?

Novel Project:

On Thursday I showed you some examples of creative novel projects and we reviewed the guidelines for the Reading the Novel-Next Steps Project.
Today you will let me know what your INITIAL IDEAS are.

Book Reviews:

Now that you are done reading your group novel you are able to review the book.
Write it in your English Journal
Use the four paragraph structure I showed you in September.
You can see an example HERE.
I'd like to be posting your reviews to Goodreads, but I don't know if you will be able to do that or not with your sandi.net accounts. You are welcome to try it, but write the review first in your EJ.

Reminders:

Tomorrow we visit the counselors. Bring a book.

Thursday is your unit test.

Finish your book review.

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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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Monday, November 14, 2016

Novel Project Ideas and Book Reviews

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