Last week, students had their first 5-day week! It was a long one, but they were troopers. For most of the week, students learned how to be good digital citizens in today's tech-focused world. They learned about leaving a positive digital footprint (they were shocked to see how much information is on the internet--I am sure you heard about this).
Students also took the MAP assessment to assess their reading comprehension skills at the end of the week. This district assessment is given three times per year (fall, winter, and spring) in the hopes to show growth. When students are at or above the 8th-grade level according to RIT scores, typically one point of growth is all that one will see (click here to see score norms). For students that completed the test, their scores are recorded in Parent Portal. The mean scores for my classes are as follows: Period 2 RIT 234.2, Period 3 RIT 236.2, and Period 4 RIT 233.0, and students across all classes have a RIT range from 217-258 (last year the RIT score was used to place 8th-grade students into 9th-grade honors--students needed to have a 227+).
This week, students will finish learning about being a good digital citizen through lessons that discuss fair use, copyright, and cyberbullying. We will also start our ELA Reference Notebooks (this is what the composition notebook is for). While they take a little while to set up, the notebooks pay off because it becomes a reference that they can use throughout the year in all of their classes and even beyond middle school (some of my former students are still using them in high school).
Digital Citizenship HyperDoc: Rework, Reuse, and Remix Due
Digital Citizenship HyperDoc: Cyberbullying
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Tuesday
Digital Citizenship HyperDoc: Cyberbullying Due
ELA Reference Notebook--Goals and General Information
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Wednesday
ELA Reference Notebook--Writing Section
Back to School Night--I am so excited to meet all of you!
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Thursday
ELA Reference Notebook--Writing Section
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Friday
ELA Reference Notebook--Writing Section
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
AR Log Check (Log/Signature)
*Students need to be reading an AR book that has a reading level of 3.5+ for 30 minutes 5 nights per week. Students need to earn 30 points at every checkpoint (10/16, 12/11, 03/19, and 05/28). Please see the Accelerated Reader Roadmap for more information.
