Welcome Back Everyone

I hope you had a relaxing Spring Break and are ready to finish up the school year! We are in LP 9 now and that means there is ONLY ONE LP LEFT after this one! Make sure you are on top of your work and that you don't let anything slide these last two months. Summer will be here before you know it!

End of LP 8

Today is the first day of LP9.

Make sure all of your LP8 work on Launchpad is complete and begin working in LP9 today.

I will be calculating your LP8 progress grades this week. If you would like to submit any corrections/last minute work please email me before end of day Friday.

Keep up the great work! We only have 2 LPs left in the school year. Make sure to finish strong.

STAR Testing Next Week

Next week is STAR test week. We won't be holding any meetings during that week so make sure you email or call me if you have any questions about your testing schedule or your assignments. Don't let assignment questions wait until our meetings, by then it might be too late or we may not have the time to cover everything we need to.

Make sure to check out the "Preparing for STAR tests" post.

http://msbryon.blogspot.com/2011/04/preparing-for-star-tests.html

Preparing for the STAR Tests

(STAR stands for standardized testing and reporting)

You have one week to get ready. What should you do???

#1. Know what tests you are taking. Students in high school will take different tests depending on what classes they are taking. In general all students take the ELA (English Language). All 10th graders take a grade level science test and all 11th graders take a grade level history test. If you are in the second half of: Algebra, Algebra2, or Geometry, Biology, Earth Science or World History you will take a subject test in that as well. If you don't know what tests you are taking, email me and I will look it up for you.

#2. Review. Go back and look at ALL of your STAR test practice assignments on Launchpad. Review them. Redo them. Look up the answers or email me if you can't find the correct answer. Study those questions.

#3. Practice Daily! Go to http://starsamplequestions.org/ and spend 30-45 minutes a day on practice questions for each subject you are testing in. Study the questions you get wrong. Take notes and review them at the end of every day.

ASK ME IF YOU WANT HELP!!!