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Grades
Grades are updated occasionally. Ask your student to see the work he has done, and compare to Daily Agenda.
Daily Writing (DW)
There are four parts:
Weekly digital sheet for the actual DW. You will get it from the folderon Monday and return in class Fridays after annotating and recording.
Tracking spreadsheet, available in same folder. This will be turned in on the last Friday of each grading period, and we will add to it all year
At the end of each grading period, you will complete the DW Reflection form, also available in the folder.
The reflection form is always due on Friday of the last week of the grading period. This allows students five (5) calendar days to complete it.
Texts/Syllabus
Grades are calculated in four categories that align to CCSS: Reading, Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Language (grammar, etc.). One assignment may earn scores in multiple categories. For example, an essay might earn score of writing, reading, and language, each of a different point value and weight.
Semester one:
Texts:
“An Obstacle” [ CommonLit]
“Technology Haiku” [ CommonLit]
“Life Isn’t Fair. Deal with It” [ CommonLit]
“Can We Stop A.I. from Learning Harmful Biases” [ CommonLit]
“The Road Not Taken” [ CommonLit]
Stereotypes Might Make 'Female' Hurricanes Deadlier" [ CommonLit]
Nine Holiday Haiku [ CommonLit]
Creative Writing (narrative)
Complete the Story (multiple)
Haiku (Four Seasons)
Found poems
52-topic choice writing
Continued with FanFiction in semester two
Language improvement, including grammar, spelling, punctuation, connotation/denotation, tone, sentence creation, subject/predicate, parts of speech, order of adjectives
How to tackle multiple-choice questions
Professional email etiquette
Edgar Allan Poe unit, part one
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Black Cat”
CAASPP Interim exam (near Fall Break or January; dates TBD by State testing schedule)
CAASPP preparation (year-long)
CAASPP exam (spring)
Semester two
Continuing skills-based work from semester 1
“Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Acceptance Speech” (Finding the Meaning of Unknown Words) [ CommonLit]
THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quality Question training
FanFiction
ENDER'S GAME and Battle School simulation
Edgar Allan Poe unit, part two, including composing a story imitating his style
A & E Biography on Poe [Edpuzzle]
“The Raven” [ CommonLit]
“A Dream within a Dream” [ CommonLit]
“Anabell Lee” [ CommonLit]
“Eleanora” (extra credit) [ CommonLit]
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