Last week, students completed their outline for whether or not schools should be responsible for the bullying that occurs off-campus. This was a learning experience for a lot of students and many of the concepts were new (ICEing evidence, MLA formatting, including evidence in the counterargument, etc.). I gave students multiple opportunities to discuss this within their groups and partners, in addition to providing individual feedback to each student throughout the process. With that said, their outline was graded based on growth. They might have started with little to no understanding; however, if they listened to the feedback, employed the strategies, and completed the full outline, they earned full credit. I truly believe in feedback and having a growth mindset that rewards hard work, effort, and learning from one's mistakes. Students also started writing their essays, in the same fashion.
This week, students will finish writing their essay and go through the peer editing process. Peer editing is more about critiquing their peer's writing and less about the feedback that they receive (although, this is important too). It is important to be able to recognize the elements of writing in other's work and to be able to give feedback that is insightful (doing is one thing, but teaching is a whole new level of deeper and more critical thinking to aide with understanding). While this process has been LONG and not the most fun (for the students or me, ha), this process will stick with them and each essay hereafter will be a lot easier for all of them--I promise!
Bullying: Essay / Roadmap (Body Paragraph)
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Tuesday
Bullying: Essay / Roadmap (Counterargument)
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Wednesday
Bullying: Essay / Roadmap (Conclusion)
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Thursday
Bullying: Essay Peer Editing
*Chromebook needs to be brought to school and fully charged!
Friday
Bullying: Essay Final Revision DUE by 11:59 p.m. to Google Classroom!
*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.
