English 11 week of January 7

Reading time this week will focus on individual learning goals for reading. Our post test for reading is next week Tuesday!

Monday – finish Simon Birch. Final memoir writings returned.

Tuesday – Work on mid point assessment for Reading Learning Goal.

Wednesday – Identify a Memoir writing to revise. Pull and idea from that selected memoir and complete a timed writing.

Thursday – begin to piece together the two memoir writings. Expectations are

Specific details in Writing

A	B	C	D
Meets assignment requirements and does it in an outstanding way	Meets assignment requirements, is well written, and has an impact on the reader	Demonstrates most of the assignment requirements but with inconsistent quality	Represents a substandard writing because it fails to fulfill assignment requirements
Demonstrates consistent critical and creative thinking	Critical and creative thinking are evident	Details tend to be ordinary rather than critical or creative	Rambles with direction, writer’s purpose is lost.
Ideas are unified, coherent; supporting details are relevant and well chose. Artful transitions are used	Ideas are unified and well developed; supporting details are irrelevant or over-emphasized, common transitions are used	Ideas are general, supporting ideas are lacking or no relevant; transitions are used infrequently or unevenly	Ideas are weak, poorly developed; imbalance between main idea/supporting details; transitions are lacked
Definite voice, the writing comes alive	Voice lacks power and creativity	Voice is detached and little sense of the writer is apparent	Voice is lacking
Mechanical skills are controlled by writer	Mechanical errors are few and minor	Mechanical errors may hinder fluency and clarity	Mechanical errors are frequent and severe.

Friday – Working on  first draft of writing.