Extra Credit - aka "Grade Insurance"
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers
Extra Credit Opportunities. This is limited to 5% of the daily work part of your grade. It will not affect proficiency grades, nor will it make up for missing work. it will bump your grade up a bit, and you will be better educated than those who don't do these things.
Please do not ask for "extra credit" at the end of the quarter in a last-minute effort to fix your grade. Extra credit is EXTRA, not replacement credit.
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NEW opportunity. Create an account at Goodreads and write a review of a book on your reading log that you finished.
Complete directions here.
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#1: find one of our vocab words in your reading and fill out this form. (Note: not just words from this week - but from the entire year!) This is the most common form of extra credit earned in my class. There are XC forms also for finding examples of figurative langauge in your reading, or finding grammatical errors in your SSR book.
#2: Read more than the required 500 pages during a quarter (see reading guidelines). XC at 700 and 1000.
#3: Write a sensible paragraph using all five vocabulary words for the week (5 points - 10 if you can do it all in one sensible sentence!)
#4 Helping Verbs Song (sung to Jingle Bells)
Will there be a prize at the end of the quarter for the person who has earned the most extra credit points?
Extra Credit Opportunities. This is limited to 5% of the daily work part of your grade. It will not affect proficiency grades, nor will it make up for missing work. it will bump your grade up a bit, and you will be better educated than those who don't do these things.
Please do not ask for "extra credit" at the end of the quarter in a last-minute effort to fix your grade. Extra credit is EXTRA, not replacement credit.
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NEW opportunity. Create an account at Goodreads and write a review of a book on your reading log that you finished.
Complete directions here.
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#1: find one of our vocab words in your reading and fill out this form. (Note: not just words from this week - but from the entire year!) This is the most common form of extra credit earned in my class. There are XC forms also for finding examples of figurative langauge in your reading, or finding grammatical errors in your SSR book.
#2: Read more than the required 500 pages during a quarter (see reading guidelines). XC at 700 and 1000.
#3: Write a sensible paragraph using all five vocabulary words for the week (5 points - 10 if you can do it all in one sensible sentence!)
#4 Helping Verbs Song (sung to Jingle Bells)
Will there be a prize at the end of the quarter for the person who has earned the most extra credit points?