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.
Here's how I feel about my English class:
What do you like about this class?
What do you not like about this class?
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.
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.
The most interesting thing I have read this year is.... .....and here's why.....
In my English class...
Here are the study skills that have worked for me...
Here are my goals for the rest of the year...
I would like to tell Mrs. Doyle that...