Personalized Annotations

Today, Freshmen (but not 2nd period, sadly -- there was a Grade-Level Meeting then) corrected wrong answers on their first Summer Reading Assessments. I had to drop two of the questions, for reasons I explained using THIS handy (and short) Powerpoint.

While the students worked on those, I reviewed students' annotations that I asked them to complete for HW last night (see post below), on their own personal current event articles.

I saw some really good work!

Alexandria in 3rd did a great job of writing comments, questions, and reactions to her article in the generous right-side margin of her page. She graciously allowed me to post her article as an example:

• Alexandria's Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3.

Kendall in 7th did something that was popular among those students with several colorful writing instruments: she used a bunch of different-colored annotations for different parts of her article.

But what set Kendall's method of annotation apart is that she included a Key explaining what each color was used for. It was organized and eye-catching. She also allowed me to post her work as an example:

• Kendall's Page 1+ Color Key 

These two students weren't the only people who did a great job, but they're the two who I asked if I could post their work. If you also made stellar annotations, I'm sure I told you so when I gave these back to you.

We'll go over popular problems/misconceptions/mistakes tomorrow.

And speaking of tomorrow...

HW for Wednesday:

• Bring back your annotated Current Event article/media for a lesson on Question Building.