12/15/09

12/8 A-12/15 B

12/8-12/9
J#28 "You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note." Doug Floyd

J#29 "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcom S. Forbes

Mark persuasive essay using the persuasive essay key from the board. See Ms. Batten if you need a copy.

12/10-12/11
J#30 "When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." Confucius

Have four classmates read and grade your essay. Make sure they include their name, their score and an explanation for the score.




12/14-12/15
J#31 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." Aristotle

Exit slip 7
1)What is the highest writing score (6 point scale) you've received on a writing assessment this year? 2)What scores were you given on your persuasive essay about TV censorship? 3)What is your goalscore for the next writing assessment? 4)What do you plan to do to achieve this goal?

Finish peer grading of Persuasive essay rewrite and fill out exit slip 7.

FCAT explorer- catch up/makeup day

12/3/09

12/4 A- 12/7 B

BY TODAY: You should be finished with, and your next explorer grade will be for: completing all skill seminar lessons, 10th graders completing post-test, if sent to you, at least 40 questions of the timeline and then their challenge list corrections, and 9th graders completing their challenge list, then 30 more questions of their timeline.

FINISH

1. Login to www.fcatexplorer.com

2. Login is your last name followed by first initial ex: smithj and password is the number 16 followed by the first 4 letters of your last name, and then the month and date you were born ex: 16smit0322

3. After you have taken the pretest or completed at least 40 questions of the timeline, complete all skill seminar lessons. You will be graded on your completion of each lesson. Try to do well on each as a score is assigned to you for each lesson you complete.

4. If you finish skill seminar lessons today (9th graders have to click on airplane to get to it) start, or continue the reading timeline

5. If you already started the timeline, do not continue until you go to your challenge list and correct each wrong answer. If your challenge list doesn't show, click on any passage, until main menu becomes visible, click on main menu and the challenge list should pop up.

12/2/09

12/2 A 12/3 B

No journal

1. Login to www.fcatexplorer.com

2. Login is your last name followed by first initial ex: smithj and password is the number 16 followed by the first 4 letters of your last name, and then the month and date you were born ex: 16smit0322

3. After you have taken the pretest or completed at least 40 questions of the timeline, complete all skill seminar lessons. You will be graded on your completion of each lesson. Try to do well on each as a score is assigned to you for each lesson you complete.

4. If you finish skill seminar lessons today (9th graders have to click on airplane to get to it) start, or continue the reading timeline

5. If you already started the timeline, do not continue until you go to your challenge list and correct each wrong answer. If your challenge list doesn't show, click on any passage, until main menu becomes visible, click on main menu and the challenge list should pop up.

11/30-12.1

Creative writing

J27 "every generation laughs at the old trend but follows religiously the new." Henry David Thoreau

Think pair share and discuss


Finish
-w8 my improvements
-W9 persuasive essay edited first draft and rewrite
- exit slip 6

Conferences finished