Sunday, September 14, 2008

General Observations about Baseline Regents Essays

As a class, we are really going to have to work on development. Most of you get the idea of what you are supposed to be doing and also comprehend whatever you read as evidenced by your multiple choice answers. The real sticking point seems to be taking those 3-4 scores and bringing them a little higher by really utilizing the texts and tasks to develop your ideas.

A secondary issue that I noticed a lot of was organizational issues.

I'm going to pose that we start here when you all consider revision...

Your initial scores will stick until you revise....

I would like to conference with everyone about their papers. Hopefully this week that will happen.

Use the task to help organize what must get done... then prioritize the information that you have gathered... then write... and don't just mention, but use the text to support.

More on this to come...

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