Presentations – Taking in Files
The major assessment of our poetry unit is a presentation. The focus is on communicating analysis verbally rather than in writing. All students are required to use power point as a back up.
This year, every grade 9 group presented during one of the two classes that we’d assigned to presentations. All presentations were required to be emailed to me last Friday so that I could download them onto our class computer. Though some students missed the Friday deadline, over 90% had emailed their files by Monday morning. The rest were ready by the second class.
As mentioned before, I don’t dock marks for lateness, but I did clearly explain to students the schedule that I’d set up for them. I have been working on framing every class as part of a larger movement and I think / hope that the high number of punctual submissions reflects that students are buying into their learning.
Or maybe it’s just because midterms and report cards are coming up.
