New Unit- COMING OF AGE

Please make sure you click on the tab "Coming of Age" to find the daily powerpoints and supplemental materials.  You will probably hear me say this a lot- but this is one of my favorite units!  The entire unit plan will be updated before Wednesday, January 5th, 2010.  For now, this is the overview:

Unit Assessments

Unit Essay
Essay Prompt:  Compare and contrast Holden Caufield and Huckleberry Finn’s journey through their coming of age.  Use one (or all of the four subcategories) of the coming of age unit to prove your point.  In addition to using Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, you must use at least one of the supporting texts to support your stand.

How am I going to be assessed?
Your essay will be graded on the state scoring rubric.  You have been given a packet outlining in detail the expectation of each strand (ideas and content, fluency, conventions, voice, word choice, and citing sources).  In your packet, you also have the scoring sheet that will be attached to each draft (rough and final).

Unit Journal
Description:  This is a formative assessment.  Unit journals will include your quote entries and responses, journal responses, cornell notes, inquiry questions, and summaries.

How am I going to be assessed?
Unit Journals are collected every Friday.  At that time the expectation is that you will have three quotes per week and a response for each (six per two week submission).  The expectation is that the journals are also in cornell note format and include summaries and inquiry questions for each day we take notes (which is each time we meet!).  You must also prove through your writing that you are engaged in the class by connecting ideas from the text with your own personal opinions.  But now you ask, how will my writing be graded?  The above is a checklist of things that will affect your grade because these are expectations, but your writing as always will be graded on the state scoring rubric!

What happens if I miss the mark, or as you say, “am not proficient?”

As you all well know by now any work in this class that receives a 70 percent or below (or in terms of the scoring rubric 3 or below) does not prove proficiency.  You have the opportunity to retake these assignments.