Fresh English: Making Connections and Improvements

Friday, December 14, 2018

Making Connections and Improvements

"I find your culture of surveillance disturbing."

Goal: Reflecting on the issues in our reading and/or improving your rhetorical précis.

Agenda:
Read
Making Connections
Rhetorical Précis

Making Connections:

The "elf on a shelf" has become a popular holiday tradition, but what does it say about a culture of surveillance?
Open your English Journal and respond to the prompt below.
How does the picture on the blog today relate to the concepts we have been reading about in Undercover Parent and Big Brother Meets Big Mother?

Share and select:

Who had an excellent explanation of the image?

Select a great explanation from your table and submit it here.

Improve your précis:

Open your English Journal
Review the précis you started yesterday.
How can you improve it?
Is it four sentences that follow the structure on the chart?
Does the fourth sentence mention her tone? (Lots of you forgot that part.)

Reminders:

Read your book.

Finish your précis if you did not get to finish it today.

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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, December 14, 2018

Making Connections and Improvements

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