Thursday, October 17, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• Unpack an Embedded Assessment for key knowledge and skills
• identify choices made daily
• brainstorm and categorize ideas
• draft a response about a significant choice

Opening:

1. Tear off last TWO pages of your test.

• Give me the last, lined page.

2. Score and Review CBA

• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Review TEKS tested
• Create a summary of strengths and weaknesses
• Attach summary to Reading test and place in working folder
• Place any additional ELA papers (including loose pages in notebooks) into your folder.

3. Update and Share your Working Folder cover in your small groups.

• What changes have you started to notice that you hadn't thought about?
• Who else gets involved in these changes?
• Does everyone have the same opinion about the changes in your life?

Work Period:

4. Preview the Composition Test Prompt that you kept out of your folder.

5. Put your name on it.

6. Read the "Read" box to yourself.

• Jot down thoughts on the quote.
• What's it say?
• What's it mean?
• What do you think about when you read it?

7. When you read the "Think" statement, what other thoughts come to mind about the topic of failure and success?

• Jot them down.

8. What is the prompt?

• What must you do?  Circle the VERB
• What must it be about? Underline the nouns

9. Examine a model from last year's STAAR.

• What makes a great essay?
• What's its purpose?
• Who is the audience?
• How is it organized?

10. How do you brainstorm?

Closing:

11.  Take time to brainstorm and even draft tonight in preparation for the essay test tomorrow.  You may even prepare a draft and bring it in tomorrow.