Monday, February 24, 2020

Good morning and happy Monday! It's District Writing Assessment week (try to contain your excitement 😑) so today will be spent looking at the exact rubric that will be used to grade your DWA. Today in class, you'll read an exemplar (sample) essay and use a rubric to score the essay.

We're doing this because I want you guys to be super familiar with what's expected to score a 4 on your essays. Each one of you (yes YOU!) is capable of writing a level-4 essay on your DWA and one of the best ways to prepare is to study the rubric. What you do in class today is due at the end of class; you will NOT take this home for homework.

If you are absent today, you do not need to make-up this assignment. Instead, click here to take a look at the rubric on your own. You'll want to focus on the 4-column for each of the listed categories.

Tomorrow is ACT practice test day and you'll be spending the morning in your 1st period class while the upper classmen take their test. During this time, you will have 2 assignments posted in Google Classroom and on the blog that you'll need to complete. If you finish those and there is still time leftover, you should be working on your assigned IXL skills since those are due 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 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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