As part of the Investigative Journalism unit we are currently exploring, Mrs. Shaffer and I wanted to be sure that the students were understanding what the daily learning objectives were. Our students have been writing A LOT - three news articles with revisions and daily discussions with writing partners. Today, the students' task was to take one of the news articles to "final copy" in our Google Classroom. Before writing though, we asked the students to brainstorm what should be included on the rubric for grading. In order to do that, students discussed and debated in small groups what the news articles had to include.
Students created a rubric in small groups that encompassed all the mini-lessons that had been introduced to them in the unit - the learning objectives based on our Dublin learning standards. The conversations were amazing! Students were able to state clearly what they had learned, and they knew exactly what the teachers were going to grade them on. As a large group, we put the ideas together into a class rubric.
Another excellent day in 8th grade language arts!
Students created a rubric in small groups that encompassed all the mini-lessons that had been introduced to them in the unit - the learning objectives based on our Dublin learning standards. The conversations were amazing! Students were able to state clearly what they had learned, and they knew exactly what the teachers were going to grade them on. As a large group, we put the ideas together into a class rubric.
Another excellent day in 8th grade language arts!