May 18 & 22, 2015 (Science Aug testing on May 20)

Post date: May 18, 2015 12:24:23 PM

We only have NINE Green days left (not including Finals Week), and I'm trying to get us through two more Embedded Assessments. :-)

We'll pick up where we left off, pre-Smarter Balanced testing...

See the last Springboard-centered lesson plan that we had, here.

Monday May 18, 2015

We:

• will check the work that we've been waiting to check
  1. Into the Wild annotation checks
  2. all of the activities that we've done (4.1 - 4.7), and
  3. I'll be reminding you that you were assigned No Red Ink work a few weeks ago, to be completed by today - 5/18/15);
• will work on Activity 4.8, also starting the 4.8 writing prompt - to be finished at home; and
• will work on Activity 4.9.

Homework:

finish the 4.8 writing prompt

Activity 4.9 & 4.10 (will be easy, as you've already read and annotated the book)

we are skipping 4.11 and 4.12

read and lightly annotate 4.13, 4.14, 4.15

Next time, we will:

finish work related to 4.13 - 4.16 and start drafting the Embedded Assessment: Writing a Personal Essay

first draft due on Tuesday May 26

On May 26 & June 1, we will do heavy duty peer editing and revision. KEEP ALL DRAFTS and be ready to incorporate any of your Work Your Weaknesses fixes. I will be looking for your avoiding them!!! :-)

The week of June 1, 3, 5, we will do work in preparation for the final Embedded Assessment, as well as the vocabulary and grammar for the Final.

I will have all the Finals info on its own page by the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend.