Common Assessment Cold Passage - Unit 2

1. CLEAN-UP I attempted to tidy up our unit two folder in dropbox by making folders for each part of this unit. If I've misplaced a document, feel free to drag it to the appropriate box - sometimes it was tough to tell which folder I was dragging to.
-assessments (pretests, common assessment, etc)
-reading (any documents, resources for the reading standards)
-writing (any documents, assignments, resources for the writing standards)
-essential question (any documents we used to relate to culture)


2. COMMON ASSESSMENT I found and formatted the text 'Winter Hibiscus' for our common assessment. It is in the common assessment folder for unit two. It includes a lot of dialogue and incidents that can be analyzed for cause/effect, characterization, and effect on meaning.  We can review Unit 1 by adding context clues and inference questions. I have some questions already drafted up that I will share with you this week. *Bonus: it connects to the essental question.
BEFORE THURSDAY: Please read this text (Winter Hibiscus) and write 3-5 multiple-choice questions that could tie each of the following standards: RL8.3, RL.8.1, L.8.4a, L.8.4b   L.8.5. We will work with Mrs. Dixon to finalize our MC questions and we can work together to write some SAQ/ERQ questions.

YOU MAY BE AFRAID/INTIMIDATED OF BRINGING A CRAPPY QUESTION TO THE PLC, DONT WORRY!! JUST BRING SOMETHING!  
In the words of my hero Anne Lamott: "...(T)he only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really sh***y first drafts....All good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something -- anything -- down on paper." :) 


**How are we doing with the job assignments from last Wednesday? Let me know if you need any help or direction-steering. :)