Progress Reports

January 27, 2016

Progress Report Chart and Reflection

• Look up your grades in power school and on blackboard (it's been three weeks!)
• Get the same colors you used before
• Mark your high school and college grades 
• Did you meet your goal?
• Write a half page reflecting on your goals and grades. 

Plan Reflection Continued

January 20, 2016

• Look at the back of your PLAN scores
• Choose 3 questions from EACH section that you got wrong that has a letter in "your answer"
• Go back through your test packet and complete corrections for those 12 questions:
• For each:
• Why did you pick the letter you did?
• You should not say guess because remember you left them blank if you had no clue.
• Explain how to get the correct answer
• If it is a math or science question you can show your work as an explanation

Continuing Reflection of PLAN Scores

January 19, 2016

• Watch the video:
• ACT Tips Video
• Before the video:
• What is one thing that you think you could do to improve on the ACT?
• During the video:
• Write down each tip
  AND
• Write down something he says about each tip!!!!! (not just the main idea)
• After the video:
• Write a TPEQEA paragraph answering the question:  How will you improve your ACT score?
• Topic sentence:  I CAN improve my ACT score.
• Point sentence: I will improve my score by....
• Example sentence:  An example of how I will do this is...
• Quote:  Use a relevant quote from the video
• Elaboration:  This quote and example relate to how I will improve because...
• Analysis:  Improving my score on the ACT is important because...

Due: Thursday, January 21

Advising for Success

January 14, 2016

Today is Advising for Success.

 

What do you need to work on?

What do you need help with?

Fill out the GoogleForm and begin working.

MAKE SURE CELL PHONES ARE PUT AWAY!!!!

PLAN Scores

January 13, 2016

• PLAN scores
• General overview of what your scores mean and how to read the sheet

• Look at your scores:
• Were you happy with your scores?  Why or why not?
•   Answer in a COMPLETE sentence.
• Look at your estimated ACT composite score range:
• List all the types of schools would you be able to get into with that ACT. (out of open, traditional, selective, highly selective)
• Look at the profile for success
• Does your predicted ACT meet what a successful student in your field has?  How many points are you away (put + if you are above and - if you are below)
• Pick three colleges you are interested in 
• A reach school (dreaming big/ a type of school in a harder admission standard that you got)
• A borderline school (a school in your admission standards range that you can probably get into if you keep working)
• A safety school (a school you can definitely get into since it is lower than your admission standards.
• For example, if my ACT range is a 18-24 then my dream big school would be in the highly selective range, my borderline school would be in the traditional range and my safety school would be in the open range.
• Use this website to look at different schools and their ACT requirements:
• https://www.powerscore.com/sat/help/average_test_scores.cfm
• For each school:
• Name the school
• State if it is your reach school, borderline school, or safety school
• What state is the school in (at least one has to be in NC)
• What is their ACT range?
• How to improve your ACT score?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8euL7Z8FVL4
• Write down each tip
  AND
• Write down something he says about each tip!!!!! (not just the main idea)

Due Thursday, January 21

Syllabus Scavenger Hunt

January 12, 2016

Make sure that you have all of your syllabi ready for the scavenger hunt.

You should have both high school and college class syllabi.

For each class, fill out the form.

Syllabus Scavenger Hunt

Choose 3 classes and study the syllabus. If you have college classes, start with those. If you do not have 3 college classes then fill out the chart for your college classes followed by high school classes of your choice.  It is your responsibility to fill out the chart completely so find the answers however you can.

	ACA:	Course 2:	Course 3:
Name of Course
Description of Course
Days/Times Course meets
Professor’s Name
Professor’s Email
Professor’s Office Location
Professor’s Office Hours
Late Policy
Absence Policy
How homework is submitted
One thing learned from the syllabus
A second thing learned from the syllabus
A third thing learned from the syllabus

Charting Progress

January 7, 2016

Charting Goals and Progress 

• Goal Grades for your next semester
• Pick out a different color for each class
• Decide what goal grade you want in each class and draw a horizontal line
• Make sure to think about a realistic goal based on your past grades
• Fill out the Reflection.
• I will hand you a hard copy to fill out in class.