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GRANT SCHOOL
1425 Washington Place, San Diego, CA 92103-1792
Offi ce
: 619
-860
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5500 Fax: 619-297-8404
Dave P. Martocchio
InstructorDave@me.com
InstructorDave.org
Mobile: 858-354-9417
Quick Write
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Each day students should spend about 10 minutes preparing their responses to a prompt.
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Students are to respond in writing with at least one paragraph.
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There will be a discussion of the daily prompt.
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Students may work ahead if they wish.
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The Quick Write written response and the oral participation is graded in the ‘Passed’ or ‘Not
Passed’ style.
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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.
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The Quick Write grade will appear in the Takes Responsibility and Perseveres in Learning
section of the
Report Card
.
Information
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Choose a geographic feature (or place) such as, but not limited to; a town, city, county,
state, country, planet, river, mountain, prairie, valley, ocean, lake, desert, swamp, marsh,
object in space, etc.
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Provide a short summary of the important and/or interesting information regarding that
place.
Geography
Ten To One
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Students are to use the 10 parts of a story by clicking on the Ten To 1 Story button found
on on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
to write a short story.
•
Students can add more parts to the story and even change the parts, but all ten original
parts must appear in the story at least once.
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Students are to write a story that reads like a story but at the end, one can’t explain what
the story was about.
No Story
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Students are to use the word found on the Word Variation button of on the
Student
Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
to write a paragraphs using the word and variations of
the word as many times as possible to the point where the reader will get tired of reading
that word.
Word Variation
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Students are to write a short paragraph about what is, or has been, on their mind.
What’s On Your Mind?
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Students are to read the assigned Aesop Fable by clicking on the Aesop’s Fable button
found on the
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
•
Students are to then respond to the prompts by clicking on the Questions button on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
Aesop’s Fables
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Students are to read the assigned Dilemma by clicking on the Dilemma button found on the
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
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Students are to then respond to the prompts by clicking on the Questions button on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
Moral & Ethical Dilemmas
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Students are to read the assigned News Story by clicking on the What’s News button found
on the
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
•
Students are to then respond to the prompts by clicking on the Questions button on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
What’s News?
•
Students are to read the assigned Poem by clicking on the Poems To Write About button
found on the
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
•
Students are to then respond to the prompts by clicking on the Questions button on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
Poem
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Students are to read the assigned Quote by clicking on the Quotes button found on the
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
•
Students are to then respond to the prompts by clicking on the Questions button on
Student Resource
page of
InstructorDave.org
.
Quote
Questions
1.
Why should I learn about the text?
2.
What is not true about the text?
3.
What is true about the text?
4.
What am I confused about in the text?
5.
What do you agree with?
6.
What do you disagree with?
7.
What connections to life or another subject can you make from the text?
8.
What arguments could be made against this Quick Write?
9.
What would the rebuttals be to these arguments?
10.
How do you feel about this Quick Write and why?
11.
What inconsistencies, contradictions, errors in thinking, or logic are there?
12.
How could you benefi t from the information in this Quick Write?
Declaration of Independence
United States Constitution
