AE Research Report Rubric- Current event and Fiction

Paragraph 1-  (20 pts)

-Share a brief synopsis of your independent reading book that you’ve read.

- Complete the paragraph by mentioning the “real life” current event topic that is involved in your story.  Write a sentence or two about why this topic is important to your plot and its’ characters.

 

Paragraph 2- (20 pts)

• Transition into how this topic is related to the real world. Identify a current event and write about it. Summarize and inform.         

 

Paragraph 3- (20 pts)

• Your using 2 different articles that you have found, so keep going here.. Dig further

Paragraph 4- (25 pts)

• Analyze and reflect on the current event that you have located.

Paragraph 5- (15 pts)

-Review your story’s topic that you connected to the current event. 

- Conclude your paper with a strong statement or claim. (We’ll be reviewing this in class)

 

**The visual part of the project will be worth 50 pts.  There will be a separate rubric to this shared next week.

Single Gender Ed- Great website- thanks Peter!

http://aubreyhodgeeducationportfolio.weebly.com/uploads/9/7/4/7/9747337/faqs.pdf

Should kids be forced to play sports- Socratic Seminar on Friday!!

Our first article for our Socratic seminar... check it out below:

http://grownandflown.com/push-kids-to-play-team-sports/

Socratic Seminar Friday!

Let's get ready for our Socratic Seminar... Comment on your thoughts about Single Gender Education.

Avroch's Awesome AE Poetry Slam Party: Wednesday, April 27th

Next Wednesday, we will start our Poetry Slam Party!
Your first job is to pick a poem from the following list:
http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous_poems/top_100_famous_poems.aspx


After you pick a poem, start analyzing, reading and memorizing it- Make It Your Own.

Next Wednesday we will be judging who our Poetry Slam King or Queen will be!

You will be graded and judged on the following items:
-Fluency (how do you sound when you're reading the poem?)
- Memorization (were you able to memorize a part of the poem?)
-Overall presentation
-Analysis (were you able to show that you understood what the poem meant?)

Good Luck to everyone, and have fun!

Socratic Seminars on Thursday

This Thursday, we'll be having our first Socratic Seminar in Reading AE..
Our first reading group will be having a discussion about the Pro's and Con's of Homework.
Our second group will be focusing on the Pro's and Con's of Single Gender Education.


For extra credit, please bring an article of your own in order to site during The Seminar.
Don't forget to 'dress your part'!

Themes collage