Zinn, Close Reading, and Closing out Strong

The Close Reading Assignment on Howard Zinn heads into the home stretch this week.  To date, I have read rough drafts from just over 52% of the students on the team.  Many of these students have submitted more than one draft, have spent lunch periods asking questions about the assessment, and have even arrived before school to get feedback on their work.  It has been great to witness so many students becoming such strong advocates of their writing and learning.  Close Reading has become associated with the most arduous of work.  It has also become associated with the most brutal of work and the loudest of groans, but that is another issue for another time.
We have more to go this week.  Students can submit rough drafts until Monday night at 7:00 and can do so over the weekend.  I anticipate that our number will climb.  It is my hope that it will move steadily up and you can help in this process.  Encourage your student to submit a rough draft of their work so they can receive my feedback.  All work is due Friday the 13th, an appropriate date for a most challenging assignment.  It's almost as if the calendar gods conspired to collect work.

Assignments for this week- The Week of 12.9 to 12.13

Monday, December 9- Last Day for Close Reading Passages Rough Drafts to be read.  No more rough drafts will be read after 7:00 tonight.  In class work on Close Reading Passages.  The room will be open for lunch if you have any questions.

HW:  Work on your Close Reading Passage.  Aim for finishing the rest of your questions.  Parts I and II should have already been done and now you are finishing up Part III.

Tuesday, December 10 and Wednesday, December 11- In class work on Close Reading Passages.

HW:  Work on your Close Reading Passage.  Aim for finishing the rest of your questions.  Parts I and II should have already been done and now you are finishing up Part III.

Thursday, December 12- Last day to work in class on Zinn Assessments.  Collection can start today if you are ready.

HW:  All Aboard!  All Zinn Assessments are due tomorrow, when you are called.

Friday, December 13- Submission Day.  You submit your work to me and start on chapter 20 Enrichment Sheet.

HW:  Continue work on Chapter 20 Enrichment Sheet.  Get two more questions done.

Best of luck this week and if I can be of any help or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.

All best and happy hunting!

Mr. Kannan