The purpose of the Comprehensive Curriculum Project (CCP) is to analyze the myriad of issues that have arisen over the last few years revolving around curricula and its use in the classroom, school, and district. With the 2010 state adoption of the Common Core, educators experienced many different transitional issues and developmental issues revolving around the curricula. In order to develop a deeper understanding of these issues it is important to conduct interviews, look at the Teacher Working Conditions survey, and to analyze local organizational models that might affect the transition to the new standards.
I was extremely excited when I began to write the assignment and quickly knew the topic that I was going to use. I decided to compare two of the best basketball player in the game; LeBron James and Michael Jordan. Once I had gather the information and player stats, I began to write my paper. I felt great while writing the paper and the words seemed to flow perfectly into paragraphs allowing me to complete the assignment rather quickly. Once I was finished with the assignment and I reviewed it I felt great about my work. I then submitted the assignment to Turnitin and waited for the instructor to review it. Several days later after submitting the assignment I saw a point score of 8 and was extremely pleased and excited with the grade. I then reviewed the notes and corrected some minor changes to the assignment and submitted the final paper for my grade and again was pleased with the work I had finished.
According to the graph in Harmony, my grade has only fluctuated slightly since the beginning of the semester. However, there is still room for improvement. I think that if I had a little more time off from work and if I push myself a little bit harder, the quality of my writing would have improved a bit. Going along with this, if I could go back and rewrite an essay with a more qualitative style, I would have to rewrite the college essay. It was way too redundant and predictable and it is not the kind of writing I want to be known for, I wish to write more engaging pieces. Also, despite wanting to rewrite the college essay, I feel like the best piece of writing was the rhetorical analysis I did about pastors refusing to wed same-sex couples. It is the best one I have written because while I wrote about a topic that is familiar to me, I wrote about a controversial, opposing
As the CIPP represents various health care professionals around Ontario, it is only natural for them to face problems in their line of work. Problems that the CIPP face are trust, nurse to patient ratios, and the extreme cost of taking care of individuals with multiple disabilities.
According to the ENG 1023.50: Introduction to Writing syllabus, a student with an excellent (or A) grade will show “Develop[ed] active reading and critical thinking strategies through rhetorical analysis of texts and genres” (Haas, 2015). This would include the ability to properly communicate theories to an audience while utilizing critical thinking skills and personal responsibility (Haas, 2015). I worked hard on my essays by taking into account professor Haas’ notes on all of my discussion drafts, and asking for peer edits from friends who have a strong history in this subject before finishing and submitting my final drafts. I may have damaged my grade a little at the beginning, but I have come a far way and worked hard in the short time since then. Taking into account that the ENG 1023.50: Introduction to Writing syllabus (2015) states major assignments equal 85% of the total grade,
Entering college for the first time was nerve wracking for me. I knew I would be challenged academically at a new level, and didn’t know how to prepare for college courses to come. However, Writing 1310 and 1320 have greatly improved my writing skills. I’m more confident in my writing and have even used these skills in my other courses such as history and film and literature. Along the course of 1320, there were 3 writing assignments including an informative paper, an annotated bibliography with abstract, and an argument paper. The assignment that I was the most concerned about was the final assignment, the argument paper. We were to use the information in the preceding assignment, the annotated bibliography along with the abstract, and create a 1500 word argumentative essay in regards to an issue in our field of study. I’m currently
Using frequently over used words can corrupt even the best essay. I received a grade of C overall. I was quite disappointed in myself and my performance as I know I have the ability to do better. There were four places that should have had commas
I came into this class expecting to fly through it to complete the necessary credits for college. I got instead was an education through writing that will help me further myself in my future career choices. I wish that I had only worked harder on the essays I was given to write to help my grades and future even more. I valued the lessons and instruction on the different forms of essays that came from attending this class. My next step is to continue that path that was made possible with the skills that I have acquired from this course.
The first essay, the exploratory narrative, was rather difficult to write. Not content wise, but trying to figure out a way in which the essay flowed smoothly and did not sound choppy was extremely difficult. I do not think I accomplished creating a free-flowing essay with the exploratory narrative. There appears to be little to no flow from paragraph to paragraph, minus the transitional phrases, such as “furthermore”. With this essay, it is evident that I simply answered the prompt in the order the questions were asked. Some of the paragraphs were severely underdeveloped, such as the two paragraphs about the computers and cellphones. I should have expanded upon these topics more than what I did. Had I done this, it would have helped me reach the word count which, throughout the essay, it was obvious I was trying to reach. Instead
I have reviewed your paper and conferred with Dr. Meredith regarding this matter. Dr. Meredith contends that you submitted the essay on March 21, but it was initially due Feb. 15. Because the paper was submitted late, he originally disqualified it for credit. He then confirmed what you expressed to me in our conversation that he had neglected to take into consideration a conference that you two had previously had about altering your work schedule for the course and permitting you to make up the missed assignment. After you brought that to his attention, he accepted your essay and scored it according to its merits based upon the criteria articulated in the rubric. It is his contention that you were given until April 11 to rewrite the assignment for credit possibly improving the “Unsatisfactory” grade. Indeed the following is at the bottom of the grade sheet you
The Common Core State Standards, also known as CCSS, are the academic standards in the state of California. The CCSS outlines what students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. To evaluate John Black and Maria Mendoza’s opinion essay, I will be using the CCSS generic 4-point opinion-writing rubric. I will use each of the three main categories from the rubric, which include: statement of purpose/focus and organization, language and elaboration of evidence, and conventions to evaluate the two student writing samples. I will give the students a score of 0-4 for each category and discuss a lesson to address the certain writing issues the students need help with.
On the English section, I received a score of a twenty-nine. By scoring above the benchmark of an eighteen, I successfully demonstrated the skills needed for college English classes. For essay writing and organization,
I still didn’t care about grading essays, until I was placed in a Dual Enrollment English class, where the teacher was somewhat strict. She will make us write 2-5 page essays and would make us put it in this website that will check for any problems in the essay. This page actually compared to me when I was younger. It would only show you some missed spelled words and that’s it. But it would actually help by giving you a grade and made you make the essay a little better to get a higher grade. The grade wouldn’t really go that high. Well, then after she would make us grade our essay online, she would get us into these 3-student groups. She would tell us to proof read the paper that was in our desks. It wouldn’t be our paper, and it will be only one paper per group. She gave us this rubric to proof read this essay. I would read it and nothing would come to mind. I would think that this essay is perfect the way it is, but then, when I would pass it to another group member, they would find all these mistakes. I would be astonished by all these mistakes that I decided to ask them, “How come there is so many mistakes and how do you know they are mistakes?” They would tell me all these explanations, and I would actually understand them. Then I read the essay again, and I actually found some other mistakes on the essay. So I thought, “I don’t think grading an essay individually is easy, actually grading an essay in a group, is
First and foremost, I think it is a wonderful idea to gain the perspective of your students and hear how each students experience was throughout the essay process. The most challenging aspect of writing this essay is writing about something you are not interested in writing about. I anticipate getting a good passing grade in this class, because I do believe I deserve it. I do a lot of drafting before I actually write the essay. Peer Mark definitely helped me with my own writing by both reviewing their writing and hearing the suggestions from my classmates. There was only one issue I had using Peer Mark. The icon was deceiving and unclear on where I needed to insert a comma. The icon that inserts a comment is so big that it looks like the error
Lastly having a graded contract and non-traditional assessment made me the class more enjoyable. It’s great to not worry about the traditional A-F grade because I stopped obsessing over the grade I would receive on assignments but rather started to look forward to feedback from colleagues and from professor Martens. I started to focus on improving myself as a writer and the content that I was writing. I was still able to work hard and see improvement in my writing without receiving a letter grade. The grading contract overall made the class enjoyable for me because I was more engaged in what I was learning and the burden of just focusing on just grades was taken off and even though the grades mattered, in the end, I feel like I took more out