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November 29, 2005
On My Honor and Tech Testing
We are about to complete the novel, On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer. I have been reading it aloud in class and quiet often during our reading the students have personal anecdotes that coincide with the story. I am always amazed at how much seventh graders enjoy being read to. Many of them are visual and auditory and as they read along with me, they seem to really appreciate the story. The dead silence during the high stress moments gives me a sense to which they become involved with the story and you should hear the moans and pleas to “read one more chapter.” A teacher writes this novel for young adults and the accompanying portfolio of activities have helped to reinforce the messages from the story. I hope you have heard something about Tony and Joel over these last two weeks. Also know that each student will be able to take the AR test for this novel and earn points towards their personal goal.
Technology testing is going well for our eighth graders. It is a tremendous amount of work and all I can say is how fortunate our students are to have Ms. Worrells, Mrs. Sauls, Mrs. Munoz, and Mrs. Harper sacrificing so much so (without fanfare) to help our kids have a good experience on this test. We can only test ten kids at a time and when we are testing we must pretty much shut down all other network traffic. It is a harsh sacrifice, but it allows our kids to test without being kicked off numerous times (some schools in Wayne County report as many as 6-8 boots per student) as is happening at other schools. Personally I appreciate the sacrifice our teachers are making to make sure our eighth graders have every opportunity to be successful on this exam. I also appreciate how my students are behaving themselves while the sixth grade teachers split up covering my social studies classes this week while I am testing in the lab. Good behavior and maturity is always rewarded well.
Posted by hlperson at November 29, 2005 09:52 AM
Comments
I am so happy that we can read "On My Honor" and I think it's a really great book. I can't wait to hear the ending of the story.
Posted by: Chris M. at November 29, 2005 09:25 PM
Thank you for letting us read this book. At first I was releived from dong journals but once we did them this way it took me a lot more time to finish one but I did them all and the book was excellent
Posted by: AJ J. at December 6, 2005 04:22 PM