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8th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 10/18/2012

Participants: Baker, Collins, Stephens
Del Toro, Richardson – Tracked Out

Quarter SMART Goal: 85% of students will earn a 70% or higher on quarterly benchmark assessments for the 2012-2013 school year.

Minutes: Collins shared a reflection sheet she made to help students analyze Benchmark data.

Baker reviewed and discussed what she will be presenting at the Curriculum Night for parents.

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8th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 10/11/2012

Participants: Baker, Collins, Stephens
Del Toro, Richardson- Tracked Out

Quarter SMART Goal: 85% of students will earn a 70% or higher on quarterly benchmarks during the 2012-2013 school year.

Minutes: Discussed benchmark data and determined questions that the majority of students missed.

We will review the benchmark with the students next week and graph individual results.

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8th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 10/04/2012

Participants: Baker, Collins, Stephens
Del Toro, Richardston- Tracked Out

Quarter SMART Goal: 85% of students will earn a 70% or higher on quarterly benchmarks during the 2012-2013 school year.

Minutes: Unit 1 Test Data
o Compared class averages (all averages were roughly between 75-85%).
Wonder
o Go ahead and give Paideia questions out to students next week so that they can begin while they have the books.

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8th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 09/27/2012

Participants: Baker, Collins, Del Toro, Richardson, Stephens

Quarter SMART Goal: 85% of students will earn a 70% or higher on quarterly benchmarks during the 2012-2013 school year.

Minutes: We discussed our quarter two grammar goals and how to incoroporate it into our Wonder unit. We also decided that we would not come up with common discussion questions, but would choose from a list and vary our questions based on our students and different classes that we teach.

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8th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 09/20/2012

Participants: Baker, Collins, Del Toro, Richardson
Stephens- Tracked Out

Quarter SMART Goal: 85% of students will earn a 70% or higher on quarterly benchmarks during the 2012-2013 school year.

Minutes: 1. Literature Circle Roles

2. Culminating Project—“Auggie at High School Graduation”
a. Visual collage of his life so far (where he has been, where he is, where he is going). Students can use magazine clippings/drawings/etc.

To do:
1. Half sheet instructions for each literature circle role – Del Toro
2. Rubric for evaluator role – Del Toro
3. Rubric for Paideia discussion/questions – Baker
4. Rubric for culminating project (Auggie at 18) – Collins

Next week:
Common grammar/vocabulary program
Data from the CFA (“The Necklace”)
CMAPP

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