With today’s shortened class periods due to our weekly advisement, today’s lesson focused mainly upon looking over yesterday’s Essay Scorer data and in the understanding and creation of infographics.
Overall, the students did well for their first foray into using Essay Scorer this year. The class scores were 3.1 out of 4 for 3rd period (9 scorable essays), 3.1 out of 4 for 4th period (12 scorable essays), 3.1 out of 4 for 5th period (10 scorable essays), and 3.4 out of 4 for 6th period (5 scorable essays). I showed the students the teacher summary page so that they could see their overall results and we discussed the breakdown of which domains were strongest and which were weakest. Overall, all four classes were strong in conventions (grammar and punctuation) and word choice.
I then talked to the students about infographics and we discussed how they can be another way to share valuable information in an quick and easily-read manner. The students then created their own infographics based on either the in-class student dictionaries or the 8th grade literature books. Below is an example of an infographic I made through the website Infogr.am on the student dictionary.
https://e.infogr.am/the-student-dictionary-vs-other-texts
Homework:
- Read for 30 minutes.
PowerPoint:
