Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Secure Test Browser

New Link PERIOD 1 Performance Task: https://ca.cambiumtds.com/student?session=CA-FB6F-424

Period 1 Use this link for the Performance Bask Task Wednesday, February 22, 2023: 
Period 1 Use this link for the computer based test: https://ca.cambiumtds.com/student?session=CA-D080-443T

Period 2 Secure Test Browser Link.  Use this link if you are testing with your own laptop computer.

Period 2 Day 2 Performance Task Link: https://ca.cambiumtds.com/student?session=CA-1410-447T

Period 4 Click here to access the secure test brwoser if you are using your own computer: https://ca.cambiumtds.com/student?session=CA-1813-368T

Period 4 Day 2 Performance Task Essay: https://ca.cambiumtds.com/student?session=CA-A0AA-375T

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Share your Poem, We Real.....

 Use the pallet link to share your version of "We Real Cool" . Be sure you have a title for your poem, and include your name in your posting. Include a gif that related or a picture. You will have the chance to revise! Period 2 Link here: https://padlet.com/lguy2/we-real-poems-modelled-after-we-real-cool-7vs8b4x4g1nq0c06

Period 1: Here's the link to upload your version of We Real Cool here: https://padlet.com/lguy2/period-1-s-we-real-poems-modelled-after-we-real-cool-5u86cahoq6bqi9lw 

Period 4 Poems Modeled after "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks Link here: https://padlet.com/lguy2/period-4-we-real-poems-modelled-after-we-real-cool-emty9y40qx6p7e39

Period 6 Poems Modeled after "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks here: https://padlet.com/lguy2/period-6-we-real-poems-modelled-after-we-real-cool-ybagdgr2wj3o1qrg

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Winter Break Mastery Learning and Grading Opportunity

 You have the opportunity to raise your grade one full letter grade only: F to D and D to C by completing a Winter Break Reading Assignment. 


The Winter Break Reading Assignments involves selection of a Grade Level Text that is 240 (200 for tenth graders) pages in length or more.   I must exclude texts that may be whole class reads: For example: The Great Gatsby; The Godfather; The Kaepernick Effect; The Fall of Rome; Solo or any texts by Kwame Alexander; or Angie Thomas.  The text preferably should not have a film adaptation. Click the link to indicate your intention: https://forms.gle/ceUUZ776MZJvh97t9


You will select your text sometime between Monday December 12 and Thursday, December 15th, 2022. Ms. Guy is available during Advisory, after your Final Exam, provided there is time, and afterschool on Tuesday-Thursday for half an hour to one hour. 

Once selected; you will read the text, reading at least 80 pages per week, and writing Dialectical Journals as modelled from previous exemplars.  You must have a total of 24 journals–10 per ten pages or so of reading. 


You may handrrite (preferable) your journals, or type them. They must be at least 300-500 words long per entry. They may use response starters such as: See the Guide to Dialectical Journals


This reveals…..about the character

I predict…….

This setting impacts…….because…….

I wasnt expecting…………..

And others…….


Take screenshots and email them if Schoology is not available. Your journals will be due each week of Winter Break on Friday. However, Schoology may be available for this very reason. Once we return, you will have an assessment (text) that may be multiple choice; short answer and analytical essay or a combination of all three.  You may be asked to also do a presentation to demonstrate reading and speaking and listening skills.  Your parent or guardian will be asked to sign off on the assignment, due date and expectations. 


Monday, November 14, 2022

Weeks Objectives and Agenda

 Good Morning! Today, I am not feeling well. I DO know that I do not have COVID (I tested) but I will avoid direct instruction and talking and engaging in discussion. To that end, you are to work to finish two goals: Submission of Final Draft of Declaration of Independence. 2. To read and annotate the AoW & complete a PAPER SOAPS Analysis. 

Objectives:  To use rubric to finish and upload student model of Declaration of Independence. 

To use annotation and active reading strategies to demonstrate understanding of texts including Article of The Week: Too Much Pressure by Collen Wenke 

To identify Ethos, Logos, and Pathos is a range of readings. 

To understand the Puritan legacy/impact on American Literature and the Salem Witch Trials 

To discuss learning targets; grading profiles to see how we can move beyond a focus on points to a focus on learning. 

Good Morning! First order of business, is finishing, re-reading and uploading your Declaration of Independence. Once that is submitted consider:  Do you think our current society places too much pressure on us to be successful? If yes, how do you think we respond to the pressure to succeed? 

Friday, September 9, 2022

The Cold Equations

 Warm-up & Questions to Consider: What does it mean to be cold?  What jobs are careers can you think of where obedience is of extreme importance?  What does the phrase, "Obedience is better than sacrifice" mean, and do you agree with it? Why or why not? Link to pdf of text: The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin pdf Link to online Audio and Full Text: https://www.drabblecast.org/2013/07/15/drabblecast-289-the-cold-equations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhklTqm1TzQ