Monday, January 27, 2020

Happy Monday, everyone! We will be finishing up "Animal Farm" this week. You'll see that Mrs. Hollis, our wonderful librarian, will be in the classroom this week. She is an amazing educator who knows a lot about literature and Animal Farm, so utilize her for help understanding the text - she's an incredible resource.

Before you start reading today, please go to Google Classroom and take a short quiz over chapters 6 & 7. You can't use any notes, the text itself, Google, or anything else to help you. It's a pretty easy quiz if you read, though. 😃

Once you're done with the quiz, open up the Animal Farm PDF and find chapter 8. For homework tonight, you'll be completing another "Bookmark" sheet like you did for chapters 1 and 2. This sheet will be due Wednesday by the end of the day.

Honors/STEM only: Please check your classroom tab for information on the Socratic Seminar you will participate in next week. There is a video to watch; you will either be watching it as a whole class on the screen or watching it independently - Ms. Fowlkes will explain this. Make sure you get your Socratic Seminar questions sheet done and turned in by the end of the day Wednesday.

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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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