12-17-18 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

12-17-18 Eng 4 PLC
Beams, Kerr, Bolduc

• Theme Rough Drafts
• Noticeable Mistakes
• MLA format
• summarizing articles
• opinion piece- articles help validate opinion
• connect to theme
• define their context in introduction
• Peer Edit Checklist
• share document
• comments on doc
• fill out checklist and give to author
• Theme Reflection
• compete Friday
• upload Essay AND reflection to Backpack
• Prepared Learner
• Cultural Competent Citizen
• Failing students-1st semester
• ESS
• opportunity for grade recovery 2nd semester
• Grades due Jan. 11
• 2nd semester Plan
• Expectations, Protocol, 1st wk, Jan Letter
• Mini-Research- Speech/Presentation-1
• Hamlet- 3
• Senior Footprint- 2
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12-11-18 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

12-11-18 Eng 4 PLC
Agenda/Minutes

• Theme Essay checklist
• before turning in first and final drafts- go through checklist
• Peer Edit checklist- what do we need to edit to fit our essay?
• MAP issues with make-ups?
• Intervention ESS opportunities
• Plan for 2nd semester
• Jan. letter
• Hamlet
• Mini-Research- polls
• visual
• speech component-  standard focus
• Senior Footprint

12-10-18 ENG 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

12-10-18
Eng 4 PLC

• Theme Rough Draft
• identify UI
• bold claim
• highlight 3 parts of theme
• Edit
• Peer Edit Checklist- Bolduc has copy from Dennis

• Semester 1 Final: Send rubric for Thematic Narrative to narrative
• given to Gossett 10-7-18
• Failing Students
• email Luckett /Bolton with recovery options for Semester 1
• ESS option, 2nd semester recovery for semester 1
• intervention: must have a 30% to be eligible for recovery option, average of 70% between Hamlet Essay and Senior Footprint
• send Intervention Plan to Luckett ASAP
• Official letter to parents/guardians send out letter once grades are finalized
• Backpack Artifact
• upload Thematic Narrative when turning in
• Prepared and Resilient
• Global and Culturally Competent Citizen
• Add reflection to Narrative
• add for grade once uploaded- mastery
• create Reflection Document and shoot out on GC
• Explain how the artifact meets the success skill chosen?
• How is this artifact an example of high quality work?
• submit to backpack
• through JCPS Drive
• upload artifacts
• Kid Friendly- Definition of Success Skills
• choose skill to upload
• prepared and resilient

12-3-18 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

12-3-18
Eng 4 PLC
Agenda/Minutes: Bolduc,Kerr,Beams

• Theme Essay Prep
• Prompt clarity
• UI vs. Theme mini-lesson
• "I AM" mini-project- Blue/Gold
• identify characteristics of self- 30 min
• Breakdown of UIs (don't get stuck on words)
• identity
• community
• tribalism- TRUTH
• Basketball-A Love Story- Lebron Enter- loyalty, friends as fam, etc.
• Create theme statement before writing
• 3 points- Arguable, Complex, Unique
• checked by teacher before working
• use formula
• answer prompt with theme 
• Mini-Example needed
• Rubric Clarity
• add MLA Rules
• Write Days
• Outlines available
• make copies for Kerr
• 1st draft due Dec. 14
• Edits- Dec.17-21
• Peer Edits
• use rubric to grade

• MAP Make-Ups
• Bolduc- Dec. 10-11,until Xmas break- during write time
• Semester 1 Fails
• interventions 
• official failing letter sent out in Jan.

11-27-18 Eng 4 PLC/Minutes

11-27-18 Eng 4 PLC  Agenda/Minutes
RM 119
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams

• Review MAP data so far- Round 2
• bring student goal sheets
• scores- improvement or not- 
• more motivation this round
• know what numbers mean
• no benchmark, no MAP??? what happens?
• ??? - creative defense for graduation if can't meet goals
• standard based grading for defense for grad
• semantics- mastered
• reading, writing, speaking
• MAP- defense for graduation
• issues?
• lots of people testing- kicking kids out
• next session to continue

• Edit Unit
• documents uploaded
• organize Google Drive
• create folders
• move assignments into folders
• assignments with Unit
• bad MLA example
• edit format of Beowulf essay

• Theme Narrative
• Rubric- Bolduc
• Example needed
• intro, body
• Backpack
• dashboard information
• at Risk students- Graduation Readiness, CCR Readiness
• conferencing during Narrative Writing
• goals for 2nd semester
• attendance
• behavior
• specific goals for subjects
• can we show students? Gossett?
• NOT show risk level/#
• show growth opportunities

11-26-18 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

11-26-18 Eng 4 Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams

• MAP
• issues, problems
• complete goal setting- set own goal
• PP- go over Blue/Gold
• scores, what it means, etc
• make-ups

• Edit Unit
• organizing Google Drive first
• look over PP- Kerr
• handout- review
• groups- wait to switch new groups after 2nd 
• keep same?  put a low with highs?
• Edit Bad MLA paper
• Edit Beowulf Essay- format
• finish by Tuesday

• Theme Prompt
• Choose 1 of the 3 UI, identity, community, or tribalism, and create a theme statement. Defend your theme with information from the articles read and your own personal experience.  
• 3-5 pages 
• example essay    
• rubric
• format- capitalization, slang, punctuation
• theme statement - formula
• evidence- self and articles (2)   
• in-text citation  
• Editing portion WK 19 Dec. 17-21
• peer edit

• Failed 1st Semester- send out letter after grades are finalized- official letter
• 70% average between research project and footprint
• 2nd Semester- After Xmas-
•  research project and pres. -identity, articles, poll, visuals, speech
•  Hamlet
• Footprint

 

11-19-18 Eng 4 PLC/Minutes

Nov. 19, 2018
Eng 4 PLC/Minutes
    Bolduc, Kerr, Beams

• Recap of Info Text Unit- R12.2/12.7, W12.8
• still going for thematic narrative for summative??
• research 3 articles to defend theme statement
• choice, own bias to support their theme over UI: identity, community, tribalism
• counterclaim- downfalls of UI: identity, community, tribe
• incorporate essay into Edit Unit
• correct format, spelling, spacing, font, etc. 
• add in link to visual component of essay

• Edit Unit- W12.1(A)/12.5   (Theme Narrative -info articles)
• Sideline: Theme Narrative after Edit Unit logistics
• 2 weeks for editing? 
• edit Beowulf essay- 
• content? structure? format?
• Examples needed to edit
• What do we need to cover, review?
• Organization of Google Drive
• Heading- ask SCHOOL, every teacher, to start mandating- students get in habit
• Name
• Date
• Assignment Title
• Tool Bar
• Spell check- red line means word is misspelled
• Spacing- how to
• font
• Links
• live
• embedded in writing
• Google Search
• if you don't know it, LOOK IT UP!
• you can look up anything with the technology you have at your finger tips- it's amazing
• Not everything is laid out, step by step, you have to take some initiative sometimes to look, fact check, investigate
• how to search
• how to navigate a website
• Academic Writing
• Title
• style, format
• "I"- do not use UNLESS narrative
• Quote, paraphrase, do NOT plagiarize 
• in-text citation
• basic MLA work-cited
• credible sources- not yet
• header

• Nov 26-27- MAP
• Nov 28-Dec 4- Edit Unit
• Dec. 5-21 Theme Narrative

• MAP- first week after Thanksgiving
• responsible for make-ups
• Edit Unit
• Example writing- KERR
• Provide rules-  MLA rules
• identify the broken rules on example
• # of rules to fix

• Theme Narrative
• NO RESEARCH: only narrative choose own articles- 3 
• pushing back- use ACHIEVE 3000
• Dec. 5-6 Introduce BLUE/GOLD Day: Narrative Component
• Writer's Workshop-
• Rubric 
• formatting
• theme statement
• evidence