KRAGEN U
  • Class Notes
  • 4-5 Stuff
    • Science Fair
    • Group Projects in Health
  • Surveys
  • 6-8 Stuff
    • History Day
  • Student Links
  • Teacher Resources
  • Parent Resouces
  • Books
    • Creating America
    • Decade Days
    • Elementary English
    • Staying Sane in the Classroom >
      • part two sample page
      • part one sample page
      • part three sample page
    • novels
  • About

Short Stories and Conventions

2/24/2013

0 Comments

 
Parents, the time you have been waiting for has finally arrived! You child has participated in peer editing and has made the conventions in their story as correct as possible with student help. Now you get to actually hold you child's short story in your own hands, read it with your own eyes, and ruthlessly edit it with your own pencil or pen.

We have gone over rules of grammar, spelling, capitalization , and punctuation in class endlessly. We've practiced together with DOLs. Students have their own booklets with rules and examples. I've helped students all year by showing them convention errors in the work they have turned in for reading and Basic Cells (even if they aren't getting a grade for conventions).

We are now moving to the time of the year when conventions will count more significantly on any final draft written work. For example, the Basic Cells sentence sheets have four points per word with a total of 16 possible. There is a percentage grade from that. Minus one is 94%, minus two is 88%, and so on. Starting in March, however, for every convention error, there will be one more point taken off. A grade of 88% with five convention errors will go down to 83%.

Why? The class can find mistakes just fine on DOLs. They need to get just as adept at finding the mistakes in their own work.

Please talk to your child as you read over their short story and correct the errors you see. Have them pull out their blue book with its rules if there is a question. Their biggest difficulty will be with run-on sentences and punctuating dialog, so helping them to understand where they have made mistakes in those areas will be so helpful to them. 

They will come back to school next week and fix everything. They will print it again, as perfect as they can make it. And I will grade it. Chances are, I will still find things I want them to fix, or there will be suggestions I will make for improvement. Hey, it's my job!
0 Comments
    Picture

    About Me

    read bio

    Picture
    CALENDAR
    Picture

    From Education Week--According to the latest research, the two best predictors of college success are not grades and intellectual ability. Number one is “conscientiousness” (dependability, perseverance, work ethic). Number two is “agreeableness” (interpersonal skills, getting along with other people, working well in groups).

    From what I’ve observed, I would say the same is true for life after college—jobs and careers, marriage and family life. Success comes more easily for people who are willing to work hard and who are able to cooperate with other people.

    ​Diet Coke and Mentos

    200 years of demographics

    Hydrophobic?

    Holland vs. the Netherlands

    Super scientist--and only 15 years old!

    How to use paper towels

    Air cannon at the
    White House

    "Junior" HD project

    HD project: nationals

    HD project: award


    Greek alphabet song


    Archives

    March 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    September 2012
    July 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    September 2010
    June 2010