Monday, November 4, 2019

Good morning and happy Monday! I'm home with a super sick kiddo today, so I expect nothing but the absolute best behavior while I'm gone. If I come back to your name written down by the sub for any kind of unacceptable behavior choices, please know that you have earned yourself a referral and a call home. It's not worth it - just sit quietly in your assigned seat, do your work, and don't act foolish.

Today, we are going to take our first look at a passage from Romeo & Juliet. We aren't ready to start reading the full text yet, but this is a good way for us to start interacting with the text before we jump in.

Today's assignment is an ActivelyLearn lesson looking at the famous balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet. We will be working on it in class today, but what you don't complete before the bell rings will become homework. This assignment is due tomorrow. If you use your time wisely in class, you should be able to leave today without any homework to complete! You must be logging into ActivelyLearn with your @students.cmcss account by clicking "Log in with Google" and selecting your @students.cmcss account. If it asks for a code, the code is listed in the assignment link in Google Classroom.

Before we begin, we are going to do a little game using Shakespeare's language. Get out a piece of paper and number down the page 1-12. You will be turning this paper in, so make sure your name (first and last) is on the top of the sheet. The winner of this game will get a prize!

A note about "Shakespeare's Life" ActivelyLearn revisions from last week: If you see that your grade for this assignment in PowerSchool is listed as "incomplete," you can complete a revision of your answers in ActivelyLearn. Once you have completed the revision of your answers using the feedback I've provided in ActivelyLearn, you'll need to click this link and submit a regrading request. I will not grade your revision until I receive the regrading request using this link. Both the revision and the regrading request must be completed before 2:30pm on Thursday, November 7 or the grade in PowerSchool will remain as it is now.

⇒Make sure you grab a copy of the Vocab Project Sheet off the shelf at the front of the room!⇐

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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 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 scores.

Zeros however, are a real problem. Students get zeros when they do not turn in an assignment that they should have done. Zeros appear after an assignment is due. If it is an assignment that they can still turn in late, the grade will also be noted as “missing” with an orange symbol. Students have 1 week from the original due date to turn in the work late; however, they are losing points from their grade on the assignment for every day it’s late.

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. Please understand that I have a family and a life outside of school, and roughly 165 student assignments to grade, so sometimes grading takes longer for larger assignments/projects. Please be patient in waiting for these grades to be entered.

Student grades are based on meeting grade-level standard proficiencies. This is not a points or numbers game. There is rarely extra credit offered, and typically is only offered to students who have done the original assigned work – you must show you can do the minimum in order to receive a chance to go above and beyond (extra credit).

Speaking and Listening points are your daily participation points for a total of 10 points per week; this totals around 100 points for each grading period. This can make-or-break your grade, so participating in class activities and discussion, staying awake, and actively working on-task are encouraged to earn these points every day.

I hope this will resolve some confusion. Of course if you have questions about grades please e-mail me.

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