Asides

There is a method to my madness! Congrats to all the students who re-tested after coming to our study session. Every single student who studied with us got a 90% or a 100% on the re-take! We are working on learning effective study skills, such as how to break down your study guide into essential questions, which can be used to make flashcards. I trust that the more of these sessions you attend, the more capable you/your student will be at making their own study tools on their own in the future. My goal is to slowly release these scaffolds once the students are able to do this for themselves.

 

• FYI: 7th grade is having a study session afters school Monday, with a retake on either Wednesday or Thursday (their choice). This is for the test listed in gradebook as “Narrative writing”. Just a warning though, if you do not come to the session, I do not permit re-takes. Evidence has proven that the scores do not increase without additional help understanding/clarifying content.

Above and Beyond Points (10 extra credit points) will be offered to publish in the anthology.  We will be doing a second revision next week (for 7th grade), and work on making our imagery more descriptive, and preparing our work for publication.

* Please remember, the deadline to get the permission slips in is December 22nd. We need to have at least 30 permission slips in order for me to submit the anthology. Thanks so much for you support! I really want to make this happen, so please, do your part and get your parent’s signature to be part of our class anthology.