Frontrunner Essential Questions:
1. How do I maintain focus during high stakes testing?
2. How do I contribute to a secure test environment?
Back Burner Essential Questions:
1. How do I maintain focus during high stakes testing?
2. How do I contribute to a secure test environment?
Back Burner Essential Questions:
1. How do I arrange my information to maintain the flow of ideas?
2. How do I cite my information in the Outline, the Paper, and the Works Cited page?
Monday 04/21/14
1. Weekly
2. Communication Research Paper 1st Draft due by 2:15 today
2. Communication Research Paper 1st Draft due by 2:15 today
3. HSA begins:
- this important to you, us, our school, and our community
- reading/writing/speaking about poetry, Shakespeare, nonfiction
- graphic organizers to help us analyze our readings
- research writing to help us problem solve our sourcing, organizing, and writing issues
- life strategies hidden in test taking strategies
- cell phones and personal technology is turned off and put in your bag
- your bag goes to the front of the room - no bag . . . I safely lock your technology away
Tuesday 04/22/14 - Friday 04/25/14
1. HSA
2. Communication Research Paper Final Draft due at the end of next Thu. 05/01 and Fri. 05/02
- submit your 1st draft if you haven't already
- you will receive peer editing instructions to follow on your own time
Earn Extra Credit
Work space and computers available here at lunch Tue. - Fri.
CCSS
Writing Standards:
W.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
W.9-10.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Research Standards:
W.9-10.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
W.9-10.8 Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
