6th grade English

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6th grade English

• Bee flexible!

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Why?

• Student Learning Goal To assist our students in
  becoming more personally involved in their
  writing, editing, and analyzing of their own and
  the work of their peers.
• Data The classroom data we gathered came from
  the TEKS checks benchmarks and peer and classroom
  assessments

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• Rationale We want our students to be able to
  make connections to their own writing. We have
  done this by giving them the flexibility to
  choose their own topics and find their personal
  voice. Our students were able to be creative
  through their research and presentations.
• Professional Learning Goal We will collaborate
  using classroom data and writing samples to
  monitor improvement throughout the year.

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How?

• Action Plan We wanted each member of our ALT to
  have the flexibility to use this assignment to
  best suit the research unit in which they chose
  to be engaged.

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• Lessons
• N. Richland Middle School
• State research cereal box project
• N. Oaks Middle School
• Survival Unit cereal box project
• Smithfield Middle School
• Personal role model cereal box project
• Citizen of virtuous behavior cereal box project
• Watauga Middle School
• Virtues research cereal box project

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Activities/Assignment

• Research
• Note-taking
• Symbolism
• Biography
• Essay
• Creative presentation

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Assessments/Rubrics

• Rubrics and assessments varied by campus

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Book Studies

• Dream
• for future writing strategy
• Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
• for teaching the comma rules through writing

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So What?

• Successes
• the students had to research, understand,
  analyze and apply the information in a variety of
  ways showing the flexibility of the unit

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Insights

• Presentation and storage of cereal boxes is
  limited (library, display cases, teachers
  lounge, office, auditorium)
• Differentiating between Pre-AP and Standard
  classes (post card, trading cards)
• Prelaunch into a
• campus-wide book study

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Student Improvement Data

• Team Learning We have learned that this year
  has proven to be an opportunity to share ideas,
  to develop new strategies, and to give us a
  better understanding of the BISD 6th grade
  community.