English I
Lisa Pogue, Royse City High School
Agenda, Week of January 25, 2016
Homework - Students should be working at home to complete their Article of the Week, Responses. Article of the Week, or AOW, will replace SSR, this six weeks. We will be reading three articles in class. If students respond to all three, their test grade will be a 70. Students can choose an additional three articles to respond to for an additional 10 points each. Recording document for this test grade is here. We will go over the expectations in class and this document will be posted in the google classroom.
This week we are working on improving our writing techniques for our short answer responses. While it's hard to believe, but our End of Course, or EOC, exam is right at two months away. The exam is 45% writing and 55% multiple choice. Each class is working at a different pace as I try to move them past "formula" writers to proficient writers. With writing, it's hard to schedule day by day lessons as I'm using their needs to guide my instruction.
We will take our Unit 3 Unit Exam on Wednesday, January 27th. Since the short answer response is worth 9 points of their grade, students can best prepare for the exam by reviewing the notes on SAQ's in their interactive notebooks AND taking the time to write a quality response on their test.
Parent Information
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our classroom supplies. The "toolboxes" are almost complete. I think the kids are excited about having some variety in the classroom. THANK YOU SO much for your support.
Please check your studen'ts parent portal regularly, or sign up for alerts. Several students already have missing assignments.
For your information, I have provided a link to the Released STAAR EOC English I test. I think it is important for you to see the rigor that is required of the students; keeping in mind most students will have only 5 hours to complete the test. Often the students complain about the amount of "work" in English class. I think once you see the exam, you will understand why we "work" so hard.
2014 STAAR English I EOC Released Test
2014 STAAR English I EOC Answer Key
If your student is not scoring well on the Unit Assessments, or the SAQ and Essay grades that I will be adding this six weeks, I would encourage your child to attend Thursday Night Academic Support for additional assistance.
As always, feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Tutoring This Week
Thursday: 8:00 - 8:30 am
Thursday: 4 - 6 pm
Friday: 8:00 - 8:30 am