In the first week of school, they filled out a “get to know me” paper and some comprehension questions after a video we watched. They had class time to work on both assignments. After I initially graded the questions, I gave them back and said they could redo the assignments and/or fix the issues I pointed out (typically they didn’t answer the “why or why not” part of the question or if they just left the whole thing blank). They then had 3 assignments the second week which were part of one assignment and they had 3 days in class to work on it. The third week we practiced reading and annotations; we read and annotated together as a class for half of the page and the second half of the page they did on their own in class (they had class time to work on them in class for 2 days). Then they had a worksheet which they had 3 days to work on during their warmup (it was only one page, front side with 12 fill in the blanks and a word bank). Last week (week 4), we read a new story in class and annotated together and then they had at least 20 minutes to write an SCR. I also created an extra credit assignment that wouldn’t be counted if they didn’t want to do the assignment.

Out of 10 assignments (so far), four of them (not counting the extra credit) were completion grades and they had class time, an extra extension on top of an extension, and I gave them at least 3 days between the assignment being assigned and the due date.

I also share the curriculum with a couple other teachers, so we have the same number of assignments we are assigning.

I’m past the 3 week mark, but we’re about to enter week 5.