Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Schedule for the end of days!



April 24:   Catch up day.

April 27, 29:  In class practice test.

May 1:   Actual writeplacer exam.  (Plan on being here for at least 2 hours?)

May 4:  Writeplacer results, portfolio meetings, last day of class.

May 6:  Portfolio meetings.

May 8:  Portfolio meetings.

May 13:  Final portfolio meetings and tying up loose ends.




Monday, April 20, 2015

On line class today!

Please continue to compile portfolios and complete re-writes.

See you Wed-

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Make a list of what you think should be in our final portfolio-  Work with others to look through in class work, essays, and etc, that we should use to compile evidence for our grades.


List:

Diagnostic
Essays with stars:
Victim/Creator
Goals
C/C
Practice Tests
Self-Affirmation
Essay Drafts
Notes
Journals (15)
Journal assignments from the book-  (3)
Journal Quiz-
Fish Cheeks TS questions
Mother Tongue TS questions
Paper planes/ directions/ in class work
TS TERMS vocab
Interview Questions TS
Inference Tests-  2
Tutoring Attendance
Attendance
Final Project



Next Monday-  On Line Class.  Don't be here in person!



Monday, April 13, 2015

We're finishing up our testing....

We'll start working on final projects on Wed, and we'll end the class with one more practice test, our actual test, and then final meetings.

Final Test is Friday, May 1st.

Our last day is Monday, May 4.  We will be meeting on that day and finalizing grades....

Monday, April 6, 2015

Practice Accuplacer...



Final Essay Practice: 

Two class sessions to plan, draft and complete a typed essay in mla format about the following prompt:

What piece of advice were you given that you’ll always remember and why?

This is graded by a computer:  It looks for a mix of sentences, complicated, longer sentences, multi-syllabic words, paragraphs of length, transition words to show supporting details, number of words, spelling, grammar, no contractions, (isn’t = is not) slang,  intros and conclusions.

Friday, April 3, 2015

C/C editing groups... continuing stars

1.  Compare contrast essay groups...


2.  Drafting and revising to earn stars...

3.  Submit C/C essay if ready...