If your report card comment included the instruction to complete Credit Recovery, this is the section you need to work with. Credit Recovery assignments are due by August 30th, 2016.
Credit Recovery Pt. 1
You will read a series of poems (links below):
Child Development (by Billy Collins)
On Turning 10 (by Billy Collins)
Forgotten Language (by Shel Silverstein)
Listen to the Mustn'ts (by Shel Silverstein
and analyze them on the basis of the Traits of Communication:
Examine the poems. Decide what the two poets are saying about childhood and adulthood. - this is your analysis Make sure that you have proof for your choices.
Choose a way to present your analysis of the poems' themes (childhood vs. adulthood).
Create your analysis.
Formats you could choose include but are not limited to:
write a short essay about your thoughts on the theme of the two poems.
do a podcast of yourself explaining your thoughts on the theme of the two poems.
do a video recording of yourself explaining thoughts on the theme of the two poems.
create a slideshow presentation of your thoughts on the theme of the two poems.
Credit Recovery Evaluation
Your work will be evaluated out of a mark of 35. You will be marked on how effectively you use the Traits of Communication to understand and analyze the four poems above. Each Trait (Ideas, Word Choice, Organization, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions and Presentation) will be marked out of 5 marks.
The Outsiders
Well, everyone, we've completed reading the novel the outsiders and we've watched the film in class (even if we had to watch some of it on VHS - let's hear it for the retro experience!). Now it's time to show everything you've learned.
There are two parts to this Show-What-You-Know Project. See the documents below for details.
The Final Evaluation for this course has two parts. A Final Exam (5% of the final grade), which will take place during the scheduled exam period (date TBA, but sometime between June 14 and June 16), and a Final Evaluation Project (15% of the final grade). As such, the Final Evaluation counts for a total of 20% of the final grade for the semester course.
The Final Evaluation Projects will be presented, in "museum walk" format, on June 6th, 7th and 8th, in class. All students are expected to attend all of these days, as participation in other students' presentations and reflections on the work of other students as well as their own work is part of their grade for the Final Evaluation Project.
The last two days of that week, June 9th and 10th, will be focused on giving students the time to write their debrief of their Final Evaluation Projects and to review for the Final Exam.
Using NoodleTools
NoodleTools is a paid service; membership is covered by Yukon Education. NoodleTools allows students to collect and properly cite information while working on research projects. It also allows them to save their own thoughts and analysis on the information they find and to organize it, as well as to keep a To Do List to organize their work and share their work with their instructor for support.
Students using NoodleTools to collect and cite their sources should share their project with user "robincarrey". Students in the period 1 class should share with drop box EN0803 FinalEval Me2We Students in the period 2 class should share with drop box EN0804 FinalEval Me2We
If / when students share with the teacher, the instructor can comment on their work and offer advice and guidance.
Using Databases
Yukon Education has several database memberships students can take advantage of when they are doing research. These databases can provide a great starting place to find trustworthy information, very much narrowed down from the vast quantities of data that can come off of general search engines like Google.
THE easiest way to access these resources is to go to the PCSS Library Catalogue page, because then students can get in under the school IP umbrella. However, they can also access these resources from home, using the Yukon Education username and password on the Student Resource page they got as part of the exam package. Students can also access the resources directly off of the web and use the Yukon Education usernames and passwords.
The most useful of the resources for this project would be: