Fresh English: CA Healthy Kids Survey

Friday, May 4, 2018

CA Healthy Kids Survey

Goal: Take the California Healthy Kids Survey

Read.
Take the Healthy Kids Survey. CLICK HERE
When you finish, work on your Extreme Sports essay.
Your final draft is due Monday.

Essay Improvement Sites:

Visit the Hemingway App to get suggestions for revisions
Visit Paper Rater to get more revision suggestions
Use the Docs add-on SAS Writing Reviser to learn even more about your writing. In your Doc click "add-ons" then "get add-ons" then search for SAS.
You can also try https://readable.io/ to see how readable your writing is.

Things to do when you are done:

Is your Extreme Sports essay done?
Do you have a nonfiction article to go with book #10, and have you read the article?
Is your book checked out?
Today is the last day of the grading period. Do you need to request a regrade on your Poe/Laughton essay?
Do you want me to offer another socratic make up? I might if enough people ask me to.

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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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Friday, May 4, 2018

CA Healthy Kids Survey

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