What's my grade again?
The number scale you will find on most of your assignments.
What is a 1-4 point scale?
The BEST way to communicate with Ms. Doty.
What is face to face?
This will keep your writing and classroom tasks throughout the year.
What is a comp book?
Terms defined and analyze in context of our curriculum and unit.
What is Academic Vocabulary?
i-Ready assignments and work time.
List the four scoring categories.
What is formative, summative, reading and academic responsibility?
The database that gives your classes, schedules, emails and ways to access classroom resources.
What is StudentVue?
The name of the curriculum and textbook for 8th grade English.
DAILY DOUBLE: List two books we may read this year.
What is SpringBoard?
The Outisders, Giver, F451, MND
Text-dependent question that help guide interaction with the text.
What are Key Ideas and Details?
Essay, presentation, performance, tests.
What are summative assessment assignments?
The standards adopted in 2014 that help measure student performance.
What are Common Core State Standards?
1) Use your #.
2) PLUG IT BACK IN.
For any extra time you have in class it is important to have this.
What is a reading book?
Language and grammar instruction connected to in-context writing.
What is language and writer's craft?
I cannot make up work in this category.
DAILY DOUBLE: what % of my grade does this make up?
Academic Responsibility. 5%.
The % breakdowns of grading categories+ names.
What is 65, 25, 5 and 5%? Summative, Formative, Reading, Academic Responsibility.
Service Oriented, Optimistic, Active & Respect
What does Skyview's behavior model S.O.A.R stand for?
Units we will cover throughout the year.
Narrative, Explanatory & Argumentative
What are 3 types of writing you will compose throughout this year?
Formative Assessments.
Classwork, work at home, Socratic Seminar prep/discussion.
A 3.0 score on an assignment. (3 parts)
What is meeting standard? 84%.
Direct or indirect meaning of a literary work. AKA: What is the message?
What is a theme? (Hint: you should have talked about this with your parent/guardian)
1) Talk to a friend.
2) StudentVue
3) Google Classroom
4) Ask Ms.Doty
If you are absent, what are three ways you can figure out what went on in class?
an assignment that is used to provide assessment data about a particular learning outcome.
AKA: it measures your growth
What is an embedded assessment?
Mastery of standard, Approaching/meeting standard, below/rising, little understanding/attempting.
Description of Achievement (grading scale)