Fresh English: Keep Watching

Friday, April 20, 2018

Keep Watching

Goals: Continue viewing/note taking the Everest documentary.

Agenda:
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Nutrition Survey
Continue Everest Documentary

Nutrition Survey:
PLHS is interested in what you think about food services at school.
Please complete THIS BRIEF SURVEY.

Periods 1-2 and 5: We will continue watching and taking notes on the Everest documentary we started yesterday.

Period 3: We are meeting in the PAC to see a one act play from the drama class. Please go straight to the PAC and find me, or I might mark you absent.

Reminders:
If your Poe/Laughton essay is graded you can revise it and request a regrade. (See button above.)
If it is not graded you can work on it and improve it before I grade it. (Currently grading period 3.)
Be sure you have picked an article to go with book #10 and added the link to your EJ.

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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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