Good morning, everyone.
We’ll get started at 11:00.
Today’s agenda:
·
Explain midterm recs
·
Midterm recommendations
regarding Summer term – one-on-one meetings
Registration for Summer term
begins Wednesday, June 1.
I will be teaching English
11.
·
Return Test#3
Edit, revise during rec
talks
·
Sentence fragment exercises
from homework
Wednesday
·
Begin adjective clauses
Thursday
·
Continue adjective clauses
Friday
I will be in a provincial meeting for Adult
Education on Friday and Saturday. Barbara will be here on Friday.
Midterm Recommendations
Registration for Summer courses
(July-August) will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1st. You can register
through the South Hill website.
https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Registration/Pages/default.aspx
In order to register, you need a
recommendation. Today, we can talk about it, and then I put it into a
spreadsheet for the advisors.
NOTE: I will be teaching Composition 11 and
Literary Studies 11 in the Summer. 8:30-12:00 Monday-Friday, July 4- August 5.
Today, I will give you an interim
recommendation for which English class you should register for in the Summer
term. 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 5 based
on how much speaking you do in class.
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OPTIONS- Stay or move up
EF6- EF6 OR Eng10/EF7 level
CW567- auxiliary course, extra
Government distinction:
English Foundations 7 – graduated adults-
already finished high school
Literary Studies 10 and Composition 10 –
non-graduated adults- did not finish high school yet
In this school, we teach them together with
the same curriculum.
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.
We want the strongest students to have an
opportunity to register first.
If you’re below, you will have wait a while
to register for Summer.
NOTE: 60% is the reasonable cutoff point
for early registration starting tomorrow.
The final passmark for courses in BC is
50%. That is your final mark on the last day.
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.
IMPORTANT: The
minimum average for a recommendation to register early for the next level
starting tomorrow 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. Also, we
will likely have an essay.
You can bring your mark up.
Also, you can bring your mark down.
This is the halfway point.
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, close to the end of the
course. Maybe you had a bad quiz or test. Maybe you missed a quiz or test. You
can do a replacement quiz or test.
REMINDER: When you are going to miss a quiz
or test, you can let me know beforehand. I will arrange a makeup with you.
How to figure out your mark so far:
Quiz 1 x/6
Quiz 2 x/6
Quiz 3 x/6
Test 1 x/6
X2 = x/12 e.g. 4/6=8/12
Test 2 x/12
Spoken 1* x/5 1,3,5
*Based on your demonstrated ability to use
English in a comfortable discursive manner. Do you talk?
X/47 = %
Example student
Quiz 1 3/6
Quiz 2 4/6
Quiz 3 4.5/6
Test 1 7/12
Test 2 8/12
Spoken 1 1/5
27.5/47 = 58.5% 59%
Likely pass, and not high enough for early
reg.
You can figure out your own average right
now, expect for spoken
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