- As I said in the last post, students can re-take the terms quiz. (Summative)
- Students handed in an illustrated poem of 30 second length today. Those requirements earned most a 100%. I made the poem a formative. I will balance out its weight later in the MP to count for more than homeworks and such.
- I entered multiple poetry formative assignments in as one grade. I had been collecting scores to guide my teaching all along. I did not feel each assignment needed to be entered on HAC. The score is a snapshot of how much the student was understanding the lessons taught. Some students did not take the assignments seriously, though.
There are summative grades coming:
- The analysis of their own poem.
- The group presentation.
- The essay which they will write from the group notes.
Teaching this unit to the Common Core methods of analysis has been challenging. (The snow days did not help.) But I feel confident that I have given students the skills necessary for their group presentations. With the notes of four brains working together, I am confident that students will have what they need to explain the message of the poem and how the writer used form, sound devices, and language to communicate his/her message.
