Putting the finishing touches on our MCAS preparation...

During the week of 3/23 - 3/27 students were busy wrapping up their preparation for the upcoming English MCAS.

Over the course of the week the students - 

• evaluated concluding paragraphs of their peers
• located areas in their essays where they could add descriptive language in order to create images
• turned in their completed essays after comparing it against an essay rubric
• practiced creating a prewriting web for a past MCAS Long Composition prompt
• read examples of scored MCAS essays and determined their strengths and weaknesses
• determined the characteristics that all strong essays share
• took a short quiz on the structure of a 5-paragraph essay

The English MCAS begins on Tuesday!

Returned Assignments

There were no graded assignments returned this week.