Complete both parts of the outline for your Personality and Career Matchup Paragraph (the front side with all the boxes and the back side with the sentence frames).  That way, you can begin working right away on your rough draft once you get to class.

 

If you are already done with your outline, please start your rough draft before Wednesday's class.  You will have class time to finish your rough draft, peer edit your rough draft, and possibly start typing your final draft.

 

 

 

If you haven't already done so, complete TWO Achieve 3000 lessons of your choice over the break.  Do the following for both articles by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 8th:

 

Before Reading Poll: Answer the question (do NOT skip if you don't have enough information) and explain your answer in one sentence

Read the article

Write two summaries (two sentences each) at the middle and end of the article

Write three questions for a quiz on the article

Take the activity quiz

 

Make sure you write down the titles of your Achieve 3000 lessons, your quiz scores, and the dates you completed them on the handout you were given before break.  If you were absent, find a digital copy of this handout on Google Classroom (or email me if you do not have access to Google Classroom).

 

 

If you want two whole months to finish reading, you have until Friday, Feb. 1st to get the book for your Independent Reading Project (IRP) approved.  Use the break to search for a book rather than waiting until it is too late (absolute last day for approvals is Friday, April 12th).

 

A shortened list of rules for choosing your IRP book is below, but if you were absent you should look over the digital copy of the IRP handout on Google Classroom (or email me if you do not have access to Google Classroom).

 

MUST have a single narrative (but can be either fiction or nonfiction ... no poetry, short stories, plays, screenplays, comic books)

MUST be age- and school-appropriate (no kiddie books!)

MUST be 200 or more pages

MUST be a stand-alone work (no prequels, sequels, other books in a series)

MUST NOT have any film, TV, or computer/video game tie-ins

MUST NOT be part of past or present curricula at Gertz or Merkin

MUST NOT be more than 100 points below your lexile level from the August test (instructions for determining this number below)

 

Provide me (in person or via email) the title and author of your book + screenshots of your lexile level and the book's lexile level.  If no one else has already taken the book, it will be yours.

 

You should've written it on the form I gave you at the beginning of the semester. If you've lost this paper, go to Achieve 3000's website.  Log in to the class that has "Shimizu" and "LevelSet" in the title.  Your lexile level will be shown as a horizontal green bar on the homepage.

 

If I haven't already assigned you a lexile level, email me to get your score.  Otherwise, you may wait until after Jan. 14th to start your search.

 

If you select a book from the AP list attached as a link to this site (or on Google Classroom), or can produce proof of your book, you can ignore the ban on books with film adaptations, lexile levels 100+ points below your score, and pages less than 200.

 

Try looking on the following sites: goodreads.com, bookwizard.net, barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com ... If you still run into difficulty, you must bring the book in to me so I can look through it personally.