1. Today is Monday, September 21, 2015 Third period books.  You will need your: ◦ Writing utensil ◦ Planner and ◦ Language Arts journal ◦ SpringBoard book Announcements: Who was absent? Check the box. Picture day is tomorrow. There will be no advisory tomorrow. Seating chart adjustments? Syllabus AVID

2. worddefinitionDrawing paraphraseTo restate in one’s own words summarize

3.  Is an outline of the topics of the course of a class.  Let’s read through it together.  Take it home and explain it to your parents.  Have them fill out the bottom portion of the last page.  Bring it back to me for a grade. ◦ A comes in tomorrow. ◦ B comes in Wednesday. ◦ C comes in Thursday. ◦ D comes in Friday or after

4.  AVID helps students reach their goal of going to college or trade school.  Fact. 95% of AVID middle school students graduate from college. That’s impressive.  AVID stands for A dvancement V ia I ndividual D etermination. What do those words mean? ◦ Success through my own  You decide to enroll in AVID and to do the work necessary to go to a college or trade school.

5.  If your grades aren’t the best and you need help with study and organizational skills, then this is the class for you.  You must have good behavior and attendance to be recommended by a teacher.  You must be willing to work hard and study at least one hour every night.

6.  In the AVID classes students will: ◦ host guest speakers who will share their success with you; ◦ participate in fundraisers and activities to support to support their school and community; ◦ Celebrate and recognize academic success; ◦ Attend tutorials where adults from the community help students with challenging classwork; ◦ Take field trips to local colleges and trade schools to meet college students and professors; ◦ Take field trips to local business to learn how a good education can lead to a good career.  Who is interested?

7. Please write this learning target in your planner: Learning Target  I will identify and analyze the skills and knowledge needed to complete Embedded Assessment 1 (paper) successfully. Practice Activities  I will unpack the expectations of the first paper we will write. Success Criteria  I will have created a rubric checklist for my first paper.

8.  Turn to page 4.  We will read Unpacking Embedded Assessment 1.  What does that mean?  In the my notes section paraphrase the assignment.

9.  We are going to look at the things we will be graded on and paraphrase them in a new list. 1. Take out a clean sheet of 3-hole-punched notebook paper. 2. Turn to page 46. 3. Look at the left hand column. (3 Categories) 4. Look at the top row. (grades - write them in) 5. Under exceeding we are paraphrase each of the eight bullet points.

10.  Take the sheet of notebook paper and put a heading on the top left.  First and last name  Teacher’s name  Class and period  Date (day, month, year)

11.  Then draw a chart that looks like this: What skills I have to show. What has to be in the paper.1 st check 2 nd check 1. 2

12. Learning Target  I identified and analyzed the skills and knowledge needed to complete Embedded Assessment 1 (paper) successfully. Homework None Exit Task  On a half sheet of paper write two things: ◦ one skill you are good at ◦ One skill that will be challenging.