Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30
We will be on Zoom for this week. Hopefully
we will be back next week.
When we do the classes on Zoom, we usually go
about an hour. Then I will give you homework.
** Please change your Zoom name to your real
name so that I know who you are.
Today’s agenda
·
Return Test#3 – paragraph about “The
Hockey Sweater”
·
Midterm recommendations
Explain fully
“Interim
Recs”
Tomorrow we will continue with sentence types – adjective clauses
The next few days will be uncertain and confusing.
Nevertheless, we will continue as best we can.
Midterm Recommendations
Registration for Third Quarter courses (February to April) will
begin today. You can register through the South Hill website.
https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Registration/Pages/default.aspx
I do not yet know which courses I will be teaching in the Third
Quarter.
As soon as I know, I will tell you.
Today, I will give you an interim recommendation for which English
class you should register for in the Third Quarter. This interim recommendation
will be based on the quizzes and tests you have done so far this term. Also, I
have given you a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you do in
class.
REMINDER:
Quizzes are worth about 25-30% of your mark.
Tests are worth approximately 50-60% of your mark.
Spoken is worth approximately 10-15% of your mark.
The South Hill English department strongly recommends that
students who are marginally passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.
Therefore, the minimum average required to receive a recommendation to register
early for the next level is 60%. This is to prevent students who are not ready from
registering in a class that may be too high for them.
NOTE: 60% is the reasonable cutoff point for early registration.
The final passmark for courses in BC is 50%.
You can move up to the next level with 50%, but I don’t think that
is strong enough. You have to get better at your English.
INMPORTANT: The minimum average for a recommendation to
register early for the next level is 60%.
The final
passmark is 50%.
We have four weeks left in our course. You can change your mark
significantly depending on the quizzes and tests yet to come. We have about 3-4
quizzes and 3-4 tests yet to come this term.
You can bring your mark up.
Also, you can bring your mark down.
You will have an opportunity to replace one of your quiz marks in
the next few weeks. You will have an opportunity to replace one of your test
marks in the next few weeks. Maybe you had a bad quiz or test. Maybe you missed
a quiz or test. You can do a replacement quiz or test.
** When you are going to miss a quiz or test, you can let me know
beforehand. I will arrange a makeup with you.
Today, I will meet with everyone seperately on Zoom to talk about their
midterm recommendation.
This is your current average based on the quizzes and tests
we have done so far: X%
You should register for the next level.
You should not register for the next level.
I will not do any insturction tomorrow. I will be spending
classtime meeting with students and giving midterm recommendations.
I will talk you everyone one by one. It might be a boring waiting,
but not much else we can do.
We will have a regular class tomorrow.
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