Ann+Cook,+Bob+Wells,+&+Mary+Sharon+Gregory+-+Writing+Collaboration

Modeling and developing collaborative writing strategies to enable students to successfully conquer the SAT, ACT, and AP English writing questions.
Thoughtful plan. Probably my biggest question is with your essential question. I may be off, but do you think the question may be more "why" should students collaborate in writing rather than "how"? The "how" is covered in the Unit Questions and will ultimately bring them to the "why" -- hopefully. Your steps make sense. Thanks for including the student samples and rubric. I assume students will reflect on growth through writing? Or another method? SZ **Unit Plan Template** = = Mary Sharon Gregory Bob Wells ||  ||
 * Unit Authors || Ann Reible Cook
 * School District || Mequon-Thiensville School District ||  ||
 * School Name || Homestead High School ||  ||
 * School City, State || Mequon, WI 53092 ||  ||
 * Unit Overview ||  ||   ||
 * Unit Title || Collaborative Writing ||  ||
 * Unit Summary || Students will learn the collaborative writing process utilizing Web 2.0 tools. ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subject Area || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade Level || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9-12 ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Approximate Time Needed || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 weeks ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit Foundation: || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks ||  ||
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Standards **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Standards **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing. || **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Standards (cont.) **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically || **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use ISTE NETS & AASL Standards **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communication and Collaboration: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">d. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions. ||
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Objectives/ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Outcomes ** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__How to Write Student Learning Outcomes__] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Writing Learning Objectives using Bloom's Taxonomy__] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluating:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Justifying a decision or course of action: Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships: Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Applying:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using information in another familiar situation: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explaining ideas or concepts: Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining, remembering, recalling information, recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will create responses to prompts and develop a new way of approaching writing.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will evaluate their own prompts and those of others to determine approaches that will work best for them in future prompts. They will justify the scores they give their paper and others’ papers based on specifics and the rubric. They will experiment with various introductions, organizations and conclusion.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Analyzing:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will break apart prompts to understand the real question and all its components; they will explore the relationships between the components of good writing: focus, organization, content, usage/mechanics, and style; they will deconstruct arguments to assess their efficacy and question arguments and organizational approaches. .

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Applying:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will apply information they learn from deconstructing requirements to write new responses to prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will apply this writing in completing the District Writing Assessment (when offered) and the ACT and SAT Writing Tests.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Understanding:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will paraphrase the expectations for a solid response to a prompt.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will understand the ACT and SAT writing rubric.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will recognize mistakes in grammar/ usage/mechanics ||  ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Curriculum-Framing Questions ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essential Question || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How can students best collaborate for effective writing? ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Unit Questions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How can students collaborate to improve writing skills for the ACT/SAT? ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Content Questions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What constitutes good style for ACT/SAT Writing?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt -49.5pt 0pt 5pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What constitutes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt -49.5pt 0pt 5pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">good structure for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt -49.5pt 0pt 5pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the ACT/SAT Writing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt -49.5pt 0pt 5pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Test?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> How can students <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> best focus, develop, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and organize <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">writing with style? ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Timeline || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Plan:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Timeline || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Plan:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Timeline || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Plan:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Students will read and assess ACT & SAT Writing prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Students will collaboratively write group ACT & SAT writing prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Students will assess collaboratively written prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4)Students will write ACT & SAT in pairs on Google docs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5)Students will assess other students’ writings produced on Google docs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Students will write ACT & SAT prompts independently.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) Students will assess other students’ essays.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8) Students will formulate advice to follow when taking the ACT/SAT Writing.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9) Students will reflect on growth. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ACT:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students take a diagnostic ACT prompt.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students analyze the rubrics for writing that College Board and ACT use to score. Read pp. 421-425, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Barron’s How to Prepare for the ACT Assessment__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review assessment rubric sheet used by ACT.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students view models of scored essays and score their practice prompts in small groups.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer support groups identify areas for improvement for the group.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students brainstorm possible responses for ACT prompts on google.docs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using google.docs, students write several collaborative responses to ACT prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Groups evaluate responses & make suggestions for improvement.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student writes a final ACT prompt to be evaluated by peers & teacher.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student may individually take ACT Writing Test <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. || //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Exact number of days for each activity will vary by needs of individual students and classes. //

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mequon-Thiensville School District Writing Assessment utilizing a SAT writing style prompt offers another district-wide evaluation. // || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SAT:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students take a diagnostic SAT prompt

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students analyze the rubrics for writing that College Board and SAT use to score. Read pp.267-277, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Up Your Score The Underground Guide to the SAT__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review assessment rubric sheet used by SAT.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students view models of scored essays and score their practice prompts in small groups.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer support groups identify areas for improvement for the group.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students brainstorm possible responses for SAT prompts on google.docs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using google.docs, students write several collaborative responses to SAT prompts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Groups evaluate responses & make suggestions for improvement.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student writes a final SAT prompt to be evaluated by peers & teacher.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students may individually take SAT Writing Test. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Summary || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9pt; vertical-align: baseline;">See Below ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction ||  ||   ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extended time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rephrasing of prompts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simplified instructions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Questions read aloud <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Graphic organizer ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Figurative language <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Voice <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Multiple introductions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Multiple arguments <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Multiple conclusions ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Non-Native Speakers || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are NOT allowed accommodations of any kind on the ACT or SAT. In the classroom, the following accommodations might be utilized:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gifted/Talented Students || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When students easily master the basic requirements, using the same prompt, they will utilize
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit Materials and Resources || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__ACT Writing Rubric__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit Materials and Resources || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__ACT Writing Rubric__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">__[|ACT and SAT Writing Materials]__ ||   ||
 * ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology – Hardware === || https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tOCi4efDJVZebKxlX6OBgEYOUBFgebYVwCz8cJapWrE/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLHVwtoN ||  ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet Connection || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Printer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Projection System ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Computer(s)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology – Software (Click boxes of all software needed.) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet Web Browser ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> E-mail Software || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Word Processing ||  ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Printed Materials || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Berger, Larry, Michael Colton, et al. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Up Your Score The Underground Guide to the SAT__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. New York: Workman Publishing, 2004.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ehrenhaft, George, Robert L. Lehrman, et al. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Barron’s How to Prepare for the ACT Assessment__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Hauppauge, New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word processors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">internet access ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supplies || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sample questions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet Resources || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__SAT Writing Practice Questions__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__SAT Prep__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__The ACT - What High Schools Need to Know__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Common Core Standards__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(See English Language Arts Appendix A - Acquiring Vocabulary found on p. 31)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Grammar/Usage Practice:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Guide to Grammar and Writing__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Purdue Online Writing Lab__] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other Resources || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Junior Writing Prompts 06/07__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Writing Samples: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Sample One__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Sample Two__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Sample Three__] ||

. ||  ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students in groups brainstorm possible prompts. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students compare final practice prompts with baseline prompt. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__ACT Writing Rubric__] ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students evaluate sample prompts, scoring them against rubric and comparing their scores to scores from professional evaluators.· ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Summary
 * ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Summary
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before project work begins ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students work on projects and complete tasks || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After project work is completed ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students take a practice ACT and a practice SAT writing prompt. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students in groups research actual ACT and SAT prompts from the past.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students and teacher discuss ACT/SAT rubrics.
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