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=Welcome to the English Department Wiki!!=

This wiki will be used so the English teachers can post and share their identified learning targets with the other English teachers that teach the same grade level. Along with posting learning targets, teachers can also post formative assessments that require writing that go along with the learning target.

Below is a link to the standards, benchmarks and grade level indicators to be used to create the learning target.

Each grade level for English has it's own page that can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate link on the right side of the home page. General discussions can be posted on this home page.


 * Kristin Martin** -- One idea I learned for assessing writing quickly is to skim through the student's writing looking for one thing they did well (circle it and give it a 1) and one thing they can improve on (circle it and give it a 2). Give feedback why and return it to the student. Then have them work on improving just the one section/sentence you indicated. It's an easy way to assess for a particular skill and it cuts back on your grading.

Okay, so no pressure for me now that Jaime put a Renaissance Unit up... :)

klep---i really like this idea---we have so much grading. i have also copied off parker and grade only certain answers (but the kids dont know ahead of time which one)

klep---I want to use catcher in the rye for my seniors---anyone have stuff??

NOTE TO ALL:

Brian and I posted some stuff in the discussions section about ESL tutoring, my "I can..." statements, and the ESL Department-Wide Writing Formative Assessment. Give them a look. Any feedback is welcome.

With that last one, I seem to be having all sorts of formatting issues. You'll see that the .jpgs of the rubric that I posted are HUGE. I don't know how to delete a post. Rather than deal with those, just go to the post directly below them and download/open the MS Word version of the rubrics (I posted a link to the document that I uploaded). As you will see, the link there is not formatted entirely right either, but at least it will work.

Like I said above, any feedback is welcome.

Thanks,

Seth