Mark sheets went home today. (An electronic copy will be sent sometime this week to those parents who have provided their email address.)

You have until Friday March 5 to improve your mark for Term 2.

Here are some ways to improve your mark:

1. Finish all of your work to the best of your ability. (Students who are missing several assignments are at risk of receiving a “R” because there is insufficient data to assess your understanding. If you are concerned because you were absent for a few assignments, please come in and speak with me during second nutrition break and I can tell you exactly which assignments you are responsible for.)
2. Do a great job on the Reading Ravens assignment. I will be getting a Reading, Writing, Oral/Visual Communication, and Media mark from this assignment.
3. Fix the errors in your narrative and hand it in again.
   1. Students were given specific feedback on their narrative rubric. If you would like to improve your writing mark, please fix all of the items on the rubric and check things off of the rubric as you fix the error.
   2. On the rubric, I only listed a few examples of the errors you made. For example, you might be making run-on sentence errors. I might have listed 1 or 2 sentences that contained a run-on sentence, but you still need to go through your work to see if you can find other run-on sentences.
   3. After you improve your narrative, you need to write a paragraph reflecting on the types of errors you made and how you improved your writing. I will be marking this self-reflection paragraph.
   4. I will not remark your narrative unless you hand in 1) your rubric showing that you’ve fixed all of the errors and 2) a paragraph explaining the types of errors you made and how you improved them.
   5. WARNING: If you do a poor job of fixing the errors in your narrative, your writing mark can go down.
   6. WARNING #2: If you are re-writing your narrative, you still need to go through the entire writing process (including all of the brainstorming graphic organizers that we did)

If you have any questions, or concerns, please don’t hesitate to speak with me. It is easier for me to help you if you come in right away. If you wait until March, there will be several students asking for help, and so it becomes harder for me to help you.

Have a great long weekend.

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