End of Grading Period Reflection

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10 questions
Note from the author:
This is a quick reflection or check in activity to help students think about how they are doing at the end of a grading period.

We have now finished 3/4 of the school year. Hurray!

Take a few minutes to think about how this class has been going for you and what you would like to accomplish during Quarter 4.

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Here's how I feel about my English class:

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What do you like about this class?

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What do you not like about this class?

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Here are some of the major writing skills we have practiced this year. How well do you feel like you have mastered them?

  • Writing complete sentences
  • Writing concrete detail or evidence sentences
  • Writing commentary or analysis sentences of evidence from text
  • Choosing evidence from text to support an argument
  • Organizing an argument into clear paragraphs
  • Writing a clear thesis
  • Making correct parenthetical citations of my evidence
  • Making correct full citations of my evidence in MLA style.
  • Dafting a multi-paragraph persuasive essay that proves a point clearly
  • Writing lead ins for direct quotations from text
  • Summarizing the important parts of a text
  • Writing correct complex sentences
  • Writing correct compound sentences
  • Revising for subject-verb agreement
  • I can do this well. I have mastered it.
  • I can do this with easy examples and sometimes with hard examples.
  • I can do this with easy examples, but not with hard ones.
  • I can do this with easy examples and some help.
  • I haven't learned how to do this yet.
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Here are some of the major reading skills we have practiced this year. How well do you feel like you have mastered them?

  • Identifying the purpose of a piece of non-fiction text
  • Identifying an author's opinion or bias
  • Identifying the rhetorical appeal to pathos and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying the rhetorical appeal to logos and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying the rhetorical appeal to ethos and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying symbolism in text and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying irony in text and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying foreshadowing in text and figuring out why it is important
  • Identifying allusions in text and figuring out why they are important
  • Identifying tone and mood and figuring out why they are important
  • Making inferences from text (figuring out information that isn't said directly)
  • Figuring out how literary devices work together to make a text effective/persuasive/fun
  • Figuring out the meaning of vocabulary words in the context of what we are reading
  • I can do this well. I have mastered it.
  • I can do this with easy examples and sometimes with hard examples.
  • I can do this with easy examples, but not with hard ones.
  • I can do this with easy examples and some help.
  • I haven't learned how to do this yet.
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The most interesting thing I have read this year is.... .....and here's why.....

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In my English class...

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Here are the study skills that have worked for me...

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Here are my goals for the rest of the year...

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I would like to tell Mrs. Doyle that...