Today, as a warm up, you wrote me a mid-unit "check in" that addressed the following questions: What troubles, concerns, weaknesses, or questions do you have about your writing? What do you feel you need to work on? What do you think are your strengths as a writer? What is working and not working for you so far in this unit? These little pieces of feedback will help me (and hopefully you too) during our conferences next week when I meet with you all individually. Next, we went over the rubrics again that were handed out on Monday (scroll down to Monday's post and download copies there if you need them). To further familiarize you with the Six Traits rubric, we read a student example of a personal narrative, got into small groups and scored the piece using the rubric. Afterwards, we discussed our results, explained why groups scored it the way they did, and also examined some of the discrepancies in the scoring (for example, one group might have given the essay a "2" for Ideas and Content, and another might have given it a score of "4"). We talked about why that was, and what the writer could have done differently in the piece to improve scores in any of the traits. You will be doing a self assessment on two of your pieces in which you will be scoring yourself with this rubric, so make sure to be familiar with it! REMEMBER, BLOCK DAYS THIS WEEK ARE WRITING WORKSHOP. BRING IN YOUR DRAFTS AND BE READY TO PARTICIPATE!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
English 9 - Tuesday, October 28
Today, as a warm up, you wrote me a mid-unit "check in" that addressed the following questions: What troubles, concerns, weaknesses, or questions do you have about your writing? What do you feel you need to work on? What do you think are your strengths as a writer? What is working and not working for you so far in this unit? These little pieces of feedback will help me (and hopefully you too) during our conferences next week when I meet with you all individually. Next, we went over the rubrics again that were handed out on Monday (scroll down to Monday's post and download copies there if you need them). To further familiarize you with the Six Traits rubric, we read a student example of a personal narrative, got into small groups and scored the piece using the rubric. Afterwards, we discussed our results, explained why groups scored it the way they did, and also examined some of the discrepancies in the scoring (for example, one group might have given the essay a "2" for Ideas and Content, and another might have given it a score of "4"). We talked about why that was, and what the writer could have done differently in the piece to improve scores in any of the traits. You will be doing a self assessment on two of your pieces in which you will be scoring yourself with this rubric, so make sure to be familiar with it! REMEMBER, BLOCK DAYS THIS WEEK ARE WRITING WORKSHOP. BRING IN YOUR DRAFTS AND BE READY TO PARTICIPATE!
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