Fresh English: Poetry and Pre-Unit Assessment

Friday, November 30, 2018

Poetry and Pre-Unit Assessment

Goals:
1. Start/finish "I Am" poem
2. Take a formative assessment for our next unit

Agenda:
Read
Formative Assessment
"I Am" Poems
Catch Up Time!

1. Formative Assessment:
Before we begin our next unit, we'd like to know more about your non-fiction reading skills. You did a great job with a very challenging text this week!
Click HERE to take the assessment.

2. "I Am" Poems
Remember the poem template you saw yesterday in Google Classroom?
Open that template and begin your poem.
We are wrapping up our discussion about identity, and this is your chance to think about who you are and what you want from the world.
(If you want to get creative, feel free to add an image. This is a chance you have to express yourself!)

Click to view larger image.

Catch Up Time!
Let's Check Ourselves:

Are you done with Book #4?
Are you missing anything in Power School?
Did you finish the two questions in the gray boxes from the article we read this 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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Friday, November 30, 2018

Poetry and Pre-Unit Assessment

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