Monday, March 28, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• What will help me feel confident for tomorrow?
• What is my plan for success on the STAAR Writing Test?

Opening:
1. UIL Sign-Ups - May 21st

• Writing + One 

2. April 19th: Open Mic, Fiesta Parking and 8th Grade Tribute Night

• Committee Members Needed

3. Our Parking Lot Fundraiser for First Friday is April 1st  - This Friday.

4. Grades Posted

• Missing/Zero grades - last call
• Ensure there are no errors.
• Bathroom Passes??

Work Period:
5. STAAR Writing is Tomorrow

• Class Notebook: 3/28 Plan of Attack
• Write your plan of attack for tomorrow.
• Essay
• Revising and Editing
• Find your STAAR Simulation and Practice Revising and Editing Packets
• Are you aware of how to study these tonight?
• Whisper-Ma-Phone - Who'd like to have one available?
• Practice with a sample passage: "Fresh Vegetables"

6. Review the STAAR Rubric

• Reread your Essay
• Do you work to help your reader understand your Main Idea about WHY hard work is important?  
• Do you show more than just WHO worked hard?  
• Do you do more than just DEFINE hard work?

• Have you structured your essay so that each paragraph has a specific purpose that is different from each of the others?

• Do you intentionally use language to engage your reader?  Is the language you use specific and non-repetitive?

Closing:

Write a final draft

• Organization
• Depth of Ideas
• Conventions