Principal's Update
September 3-14, 2018
Peek at the Week
Monday Sept. 3-Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday Sept. 4-Kane Smego Presentation (8th grade)
Thursday Sept. 6-Volleyball at EY 5:00Soccer at EY 5:00
Monday Sept. 10-Volleyball at Harris 5:00
Soccer at EY 5:00
Tuesday Sept. 11-Title 1 Parent Meeting 6:00
Wednesday Sept 12-TP Out
Thursday Sept. 13- Fall Pictures during PE
Volleyball at Avery 5:00
Soccer at Cane River 5:00
Friday Sept. 14- Self Assessment Due for NCEES
Technology Corner
Growth Mindset for Teachers
Instructional Focus-Writing
Three types of Writing for Every Classroom
Writing-to-learn: journals, learning logs, writer's notebooks, exit and admit tickets, inquiry logs, mathematics logs
Writing-to-demonstrate-learning: paragraphs, essays, essay and open-response questions, lab reports, research assignments, creative tasks, on-demand writing, project reports
Authentic writing: Articles, editorials, letters to the editor, speeches, letters, proposals, reviews, personal narratives, memoirs, personal essays, poems, short stories, plays, scripts, business plans, proposals, how-to manuals, memos, resumes, emails
What and how much writing should students do?
All students should:
- Participate in a writing-to-learn activity daily in all classes.
- Complete a short paper (one to three pages) each week that will be graded.
- Complete papers of more than five pages at least monthly in ELA classes.
- Complete at least one paper involving research annually in each class.