Cell Phones In Schools: An On-Demand Writing

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1
Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. On-Demand Reading/Writing
3. You will have time next class to finish. Once you are done, you will have time for your research.

Prompt:

Dr. Burke and the Twin Peaks staff are re-evaluating our cell phone policy at this time. Your task is to write a letter to Dr. Burke explaining what she should decide. Should students be allowed to have cell phones anytime in school? At breaks only? Never at all? Use the articles to help you choose a side and support your argument with evidence from the texts. Do not use personal pronouns.

Rubric: It's the same one you had for your Hatchet essay

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Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
• Here are your NEW directions/expectations
• If you turn it in late, you get 20% taken off of whatever score you earned. So if you earn 25/30 on the rubric, your score in the gradebook will be 20/30 (20% of 25 points is 20)
• Here's the rubric. Keep in mind "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
• Work on your Lit review. 
• Three or more sources per person in your group. 
• DETAILS. Use the lit review space to take notes for yourself on each article so you don't have to go back to it. (try to focus on one source per day and be real specific about it.)
• We start the next step on May 13(ish). (yes, that's a long time)
• NoRedInk: Pronouns!
• Diagnostic pretest: already due.
• Pronoun Practice: due by Thursday, May 30. There are 8 topics, so you have quite a bit of time to do it, but you will be MISERABLE if you wait until the last second. Don't do that.
• Note: No class has access to this yet because no class has 100% of people who have finished the pretest. The due date is still May 30. You're losing days.