Homework for June 4

Red Class

1. Draft the first paragraph of the Introductory Reflective CEI Essay for your Portfolio Scrapbook, which includes the 5 Star Quote.
2. Scrapbook Portfolio Progress check next class: 10 artifacts with a reflective paragraph for each!

Yellow Class

1. Draft the first paragraph of the Introductory Reflective CEI Essay for your Portfolio Scrapbook, which includes the 5 Star Quote.
2. Scrapbook Portfolio Progress check next class: 10 artifacts with a reflective paragraph for each!

Blue Class

1. Draft the first paragraph of the Introductory Reflective CEI Essayfor your Portfolio Scrapbook, which includes the 5 Star Quote.
2. Scrapbook Portfolio Progress check next class: 10 artifacts with a reflective paragraph for each!

Read Up and Write On!

Homework for June 3

Green Class

1. Draft the first paragraph of the Introductory Reflective Essay for your Portfolio Scrapbook, which includes the 5 Star Quote.

Red Class

1. Draft the first paragraph of the Introductory Reflective Essay for your Portfolio Scrapbook, which includes the 5 Star Quote.

Read Up and Write On!

Scrapbook Porfolio, Phase 2

At this point in the process, students should have completed the following tasks in working toward their final Portfolio Scrapbook:

1. Identified the 10 necessary artifacts representative of required work samples, and

2. Drafted a reflective paragraph for each.

The next step will be to write an introductory reflective essay in which they respond to two Essential Questions:

What have a learned this year?
How have I shown what I know?

Similar to the culminating activity at the end of last year, students will need to identify a singular quote (which we'll call a "5 Star Quote"), from either one of the readings we have read in class together this year, a famous quote, or lyric from a song that they feel captures the spirit of what they have done this year in ELA class.

The due dates for the project depend on which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11
Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

Read Up and Write On!

A Gentle Reminder from "The Magical Unicorn of Success"!

Only fifteen(!) school days left, and only a handful of classes together remaining, so PLEASE come to each ELA 8 class with the intent of working completing your Portfolio Scrapbooks!

The due dates for the project depend on which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11
Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

Read Up and Write On!

Whether in Washington, D.C. or Greece, NY...

Whether students will be travelling to Washington, DC, over the next three days, or staying with moi at school in Greece, NY, the assignment remains the same: working towards completing the Portfolio Scrapbook Project. The emphasis leading up to the class trip has been to insure that ALL students understand the expectation so that, whether here (Greece) or there (DC), they can work towards completing the project independently.

The steps from here on out are pretty straight-forward:

1. Identify 10 artifacts.

2. Draft one reflective “paragraph” for each artifact--one representative of each of the ten required examples.

3. Develop scrapbook page by combining both the artifact and the reflective paragraph.

4. Organize all 10 entries into a single “book.”

5. Develop a cover and “make the project your own.”

The due dates for the final products are once again dependent upon which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11
Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

I am looking very forward to having the opportunities to review your final Scrapbook portfolios and having you share it with others!

Read Up and Write On!

Digging for Artifacts.... Scrapbook Style!

Over the next ten days or so the scheduling here will get pretty... interesting. With many students going on the eighth grade class trip to Washington, and the remainder working form a modified schedule, after Tuesday's "regular" Day 2, things will be a little unstable.

The focus of our classwork leading up to the June 2 will be the reflective Portfolio Scrapbook. By giving the students an opportunity to productively work toward progressing on this project, I am hoping to have them go into the class trip "break" with a sharp understanding of what is expected, as well, as a head start on its completion in the form of (minimally) a drafted Scrapbook Entry.

The due dates for the final products are once again dependent upon which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11

Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

I am looking very forward to having the opportunities to review your final Scrapbook portfolios and having you share it with others!

Read Up and Write On!

Student Portfolio Scrapbook

Following the tremendous success of our recent Poetry Chapbook project, students have begun working on their culminating activity for the year, a reflective Portfolio Scrapbook. Like Indiana Jones, students will be searching through their own histories to re-discover artifacts demonstrating their strengths and weaknesses.

Preliminary work was begun in classes today, with students being given the criteria and a graphic organizer on which to layout the ten artifacts which will demonstrate their strengths and weakness. At our next classes, we will begin drafting what will become the reflective paragraphs which combined with the artifact (work sample) become a Scrapbook Entry (an example of which can be seen here.

The due dates for the final prodcuts are once again dependent upon which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11

Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

I am looking very forward to having the opportunities to review your final Scrapbook portfolios and having you share it with others!

Read Up and Write On!