Go Mathletes!
We are reading through the Call of the Wild as we watch the Yukon Quest Race. Brent Sass has been injured and is out of the race while Alan Moore has completed and won the quest. We will watch the rest of the mushers come in over the next few days.
If scholars have not had a chance to finish reading their chapters in their cohorts, here is the link for them to be able to read the text online:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/215/215-h/215-h.htm
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Your scholars are becoming quite skilled in writing essays.
The week of February 24-28 we will be adding a responsibility and making a
change in order to get them ready for the testing at the end of the year.
Currently they write on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursday they
bring in their rough draft, handwritten on loose leaf paper. Thursday is our
peer editing day where each scholar edits two other papers and completes a
form. The forms are then stapled to the rough draft and the scholar takes it
home to reflectively grade his or her own paper using the same form and then
rewrites the essay with corrections on Thursday evening. Starting the week of
the 28th scholars will be TYPING the FINAL draft of the essay at home. They
will hand in their essays at 8:00 a.m. on Friday stapled to the top of their
rough draft and peer editing sheets (like they currently do). The change is
that they type the final piece. For the testing at the end of the year they are
required to type an essay. They need to be practicing their typing skills each
week.
If you do not have a printer available to you, your scholar
can save his or her essay in word 2007 format and print out the essay Friday
morning, but it has to be done BEFORE 8:00 a.m. If they meet the teachers at
the door and let them know that they need to print an essay, they will allow
them to my room.
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