Information
- Each school day students should spend about 10 minutes preparing their responses to a prompt.
- Students are to respond in writing with at least one paragraph.
- There will be a discussion of the daily prompt.
- Students may work ahead if they wish.
- The Quick Write written response and the oral participation are graded in the ‘Passed’ or ‘Not Passed’ style.
- Passed = Provided good content for 10 minutes of work and meaningful oral contributions.
- Not Passed = Content was not satisfactory for 10 minutes of work and/or oral contributions were not meaningful.
- The Quick Write grade will appear in the Takes Responsibility and Perseveres in Learning section of the Report Card.
Prompts for Writing
- Why should I learn about the text?
- What is not true about the text?
- What is true about the text?
- What am I confused about in the text?
- What do you agree with?
- What do you disagree with?
- What connections to life or another subject can you make from the text?
- What arguments could be made against this Quick Write?
- What would the rebuttals be to these arguments?
- How do you feel about this Quick Write and why?
- What inconsistencies, contradictions, errors in thinking, or logic are there?
- How could you benefit from the information in this Quick Write?
