Fresh English: Review and revise writing

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Review and revise writing

Goals: Review and revise writing

Agenda:
Read
Review writing
Revise writing

Review Writing:
Open your Extreme Sports essay. Lucky you. I'm behind on grading them so you get another chance for improvement.
Highlight and copy your essay. (Just your essay, not the directions, or other things.)
Go to www.peergrade.io/join I will give you the class code in class.
Sign in with Google.
Pick the "Live Session"
Paste in your essay as "text"
No, your peers aren't giving you grades. They are giving you feedback, anonymously. (But I still get to see who said what. It's not anonymous for the teacher.)

Revise writing:
Review your feedback and spend some time improving your essay.

Reminders:
Be sure your charting from 5/11 is complete in your English Journal.
Read. Book #11 is due 5/21. That's next week!

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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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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Review and revise writing

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