P2 EF710 Class 16

 

I want you to be set up for success.

“I was keeping up with the flow of traffic.”

traffic court- parking, speeding, cell phone

A lot of cars have cameras now.

 

Yes, officer. No, officer.

 

 

-ticket with a fine, lose points on your license

- may affect the cost of your insurance

 

We learn our lessons the hard way.

It hits us in the pocketbook. $$

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·         Attendance

·      Talk about midterm recommendations

·      Talk about optional replacement test and/or quiz

·      Begin “Parallelism”

·      Test 3- “I Confess” paragraph (final 60m)

·      HW   Prepare “Dead Man’s Path”

 

Thursday

·      Begin “Dead Man’s Path”

·      “Parallelism”

 

Friday- end of 4^th week

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 4

·      Begin final kind of sentence “Compound-Complex Sentences”

 

 

 

*Tuesday, March 10

Opportunity to replace one quiz, test, both or neither

 

** Optional replacement quiz and/or test **

 

A few people have asked me about rewriting quizzes and or tests. Maybe you had a bad quiz and or test or missed a quiz and/or test.

 

In my classes, I offer an optional replacement quiz and/or test for anyone who would like to do one.

 

NEW CHOICE:

On the day before the midterm recs, OR the second last class, you will have an opportunity to replace one of the quizzes and/or one of the tests that you wrote.

 

Again, this is optional. You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.

 

So far we have done some five quizzes:

 

Quiz#1        X/6

Quiz#2        X/6

Quiz#3        x/6

Quix#4       x/6

Quiz#5        x/6

You have your marks for those.

You may have one quiz that you were not satisfied with.

One is one. Not two, not three. 1=1

You choose which one you want to replace.

 

You will do the replacement quiz during regular class time, as usual. We will do it the final (25m) at the end of the class.

 

The replacement quiz will be a new quiz. The replacement quiz will be a mix of all sentence styles.

e.g. If you want to replace your Quiz #2, the compound sentence quiz, the replacement quiz will not just be on compound sentence; it will be on all of the sentence styles. The replacement quiz will be six sentences, as usual- mix of simple, compound, complex.

 

**The replacement quiz will be a mix of all of the sentence styles: simple, compound, and complex.**

 

Your old mark will be replaced with the new mark. It will not be the higher of the two marks.

 

**

Replacement test

Exactly the same situation with the replacement test. It will be a paragraph on a new topic.

 

EF56 **No replacement opportunity for the essay

 

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #1

T1 4/6

T2 2/6

T3 4/6

T4 5/6

You can choose to replace T2.

Replacement quiz- 4/6

*Great outcome.

 

You have a choice- do your replacement test the day before midterm recs or the second last day of the course.

 

 

Essay 1 – Tuesday

 

 

 

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #2

Q1 4/6 3/6

Q2 4.5/6

Q3 4.5/6

Q4 5/6

Q5 5/6

 

You choose to replace Q1.

Replacement quiz 3/6

*Less-than-ideal outcome* The average for your quizzes goes down.

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #3

Q1 2/6

Q2 1.5/6

Q3 0/6 3.5/6

Q4 0/6

Q5 2/5

 

Q3 or Q4- you decide Q3

Replacement quiz 3.5/6   The average for your quizzes will go up. You’re getting closer to pass. You will feel better.

 

 

Think carefully about if you would like to replace one of your quiz and/or test marks.

 

**

*Wednesday and Thursday, March 11 &12

Midterm recommendations

 

 

Midterm recommendations

 

Quarter 4 – registration will begin after Spring Break

 

Q4 (April-June)

 

You will need a recommendation from your instructor.

 

What course should you register for in Quarter 4.

 

I will give out midterm/interim recs Wednesday, March 11th and Thursday, March 12^th.

-half the class 11^th, other half on 12^th- alphabetical order

 

Interim recs based on quizzes, tests, spoken work so far

 

Test 1   x/12  4/6= 8/12  RW 1pt

Test 2   x/12

Test 3   x/12

Test 4   x/12

 

Quiz 1   x/6

 

RW – I pt each

 

Spoken 1   x/10

 

Average of all of those marks.

 

Looking for a solid 60% to get am early recommendation to move up.

 

Midterm rec- halfway-

 

40%- NO

70%- YES

 

50-60% - LOW

~60%+ - MINIMAL YES

 

Marks will go up and down.

We have four  more weeks until the end of the course.

There is a lot of opportunity to raise your marks.

 

To Come- Test 5, maybe Test 6

Essay- 1 or 2

Spoken 2 – 15pts

Presentations- 10pts

RWs

 

 

**

 

A few examples of parallelism within sentences:

1.                You need to work quickly and decisively. adverb

He is indecisive.

2.                This is not only just what I wanted, but also just what I needed.

3.                The municipal government needs to reduce spending expenses/expenditures or raise taxes.

4.                Jun is sneaky and manipulative.

5.                Mei was was very busy gathering the laundry, dusting the furniture and washing the dishes.

**

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test 3

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Phones, devices away

You can have your story out for the test.

 

Write a paragraph of least 150 words on the following topic. Include quoted material.

 

 

Why did Mr. Wei, the teacher, choose to confess his mistake to his class of students?