6.d Of Mice and Men

Students will first be able to “show and tell” their portfolio work with family members both in person with the final product as well as online. Online, we will scan in images and download documents for the general public to view. Students will be encouraged to have parents and siblings comment on their published work online. The online work is public and open to everyone. I will be sure to get permission from students to upload work. I will advertise the site using emails, flyers, and word-of-mouth at Clark and in Main South.

8.A Of Mice and Men

Through the class website, I will try to get parents and families involved in supporting the students. Students will be required to share their work with one another, as well as other teachers and their families. It is my hope to communicate with families during the first week of the unit (or perhaps before the Thanksgiving break) to encourage students to think of new ways to engage with the material creatively yet at the same time academically.

6.d You Don’t Know Me

Students will be able to conference with me in and out of class to consider their academic progress in writing. These meetings will include reviewing personal focus-goals in writing. I will send these goal sheets home to parents to review and include areas of strength for their students’ writing as well as targeted areas for continued progression.

8.A You Don’t Know Me

We will continue to use the class website to publish student work. I am hoping to build on the publishing that will have been done for the Of Mice and Men portfolios. This will be one “hook” for an audience beyond the students. I will send students home with personal progress reports in writing. Several students in my class do not complete regular writing or the larger writing pieces for my class; I will make contact with these families to encourage students to stay afterschool to provide them with a comfortable writing environment. I will offer this opportunity for all students.

6.d A Streetcar Named Desire

[…] Parents will be made aware that students will all have, in theory, different homework from other students in class each week. It will be important for students who pick roles involving music direction and prop design to have support in assembling these resources. I can help acquire materials for students, too; I understand that many of my students’ parents work multiple jobs and/or would not be able to assist in attaining materials for the staging.