Fresh English: Extreme Listening

Monday, April 9, 2018

Extreme Listening

Goals: Update Mrs. R about your reading progress, listen to a news article and answer some questions about it.

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Survey
Article of the Week (Audio edition)

1. Read: 10-15 minutes silent reading from your book.
Remember to return and/or check out the book you have now.
Next review due 4/12.

2. Reading Progress Survey: Complete the FORM.

3. Article of the week (audio edition):
Our AOW this time will be an audio edition. National Public Radio produces great radio content and today we will listen to a news story about a pretty extreme sport from the recent winter Olympics.
I'll play it for you first and then you can listen to it again.
After we listen you will answer the questions on THIS FORM. (Yes this is a listening score.)

4. Done with the listening?

Open your English Journal and write a response to the prompt below based on the news story you just listened to.

Can you think of another sport that attracts a similar type of athlete? Explain the reasoning for your answer.

Need something else to work on?

Open your Comparative Analysis essay (Poe/Laughton). If I've graded it, what do you need to revise? If I haven't graded it, what can you improve before it gets graded?
Read

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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, April 9, 2018

Extreme Listening

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