Spring Break through Thursday, March 28

All Received Research Papers have been graded.  If you believe there is a 'missing' mark for your grade, please e-mail me.

Students will be given one final opportunity to improve their Quarter 3 Research Paper grade.  Drafts will be available on Wednesday, March 27 before school starts and throughout the day.  Follow these steps to improve your grade:

1. Retrieve your marked draft from Quarter 3.
2. Create a new Google Drive file for the new draft.
3. Make the changes suggested and any other ones that you find on your own or through peer-editing.
4. Highlight ALL OF THE CHANGES YOU'VE MADE TO THIS NEXT DRAFT. This may be done electronically or with a real highlighter- whichever is easier for you.
5. Paper-clip BOTH drafts together and re-submit.

I will be checking that you made ALL of the suggested changes, as well as some you found on your own or through peer-editing.  Only a one grade-level change will be allowed per-student.  The upgrade will look like this on your Edline report:

• Incomplete>Below/Not Met
• Below/Not Met>Approaches
• Approaches>Meets
• Meets>Exceeds
• Exceeds>Outstanding (only a small difference, but it's yours if you want it)
• Outstanding...'maybe just read your book.

Homework for Quarter 4, Week 2...

Finish Reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Be ready to participate in a character activity on Monday or Tuesday)

F451 Activity due by Friday, April 5 (click here to see the grading rubric)
***Activities with presentations or films that need to be shown will be due on Thursday, April 4 in class
Enrichment: Listen to the audio guide of Ray Brabury speaking about his book at the NEA Big Read website!