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June 27 2011

LEADERSHIP & COMMUNICATIONS. Learning Expectations 4.3 Evaluate skills used for effective problem solving and decision making. June 27 2011. Today’s ACT Bell Ringer Read passage from page 9 . Then answer the question on the board. Please write your answer on the right side of paper.

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June 27 2011

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  1. LEADERSHIP & COMMUNICATIONS Learning Expectations 4.3 Evaluate skills used for effective problem solving and decision making. June 27 2011 Today’s ACT Bell Ringer Read passage from page 9 . Then answer the question on the board. Please write your answer on the right side of paper.

  2. DIRECTIONS: The passage in this test is followed by several questions. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. You may refer to the passage as often as necessary. The Noticer 9 “So, my contention is that you are right where you are supposed to be.” The old man scooped up a double handful of the white sand and let it pour from his fingers. “It may look like barren sand to you, son, but nothing could be further from the truth. I say to you that, as you lay your head down tonight, you are sleeping on fertile ground. Think. Learn. Pray. Plan. Dream. For soon . . . you will become.” Before he left that night, Jones opened his suitcase, holding it carefully away from my curious gaze, and removed three small, orange hardcover books. “Do you read?” he asked. As I nodded, he added, “I’m not asking if you can read; I’m asking if you do.” “Yes,” I responded. “Mostly magazines and stuff, but I do.” “Good enough,” Jones said. “Read these.” I looked at what he handed me in the semidarkness. The titles were all names. Winston Churchill. Will Rogers. George Washington Carver. I glanced back up at him. “History books?” “No,” he said, with a twinkle in his eye, “adventure stories! Success, failure, romance, intrigue, tragedy, and triumph—and the best part is that every word is true! Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.”

  3. Question 1 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about being great? • Your experiences will be the best way to greatness. • Reading a variety of books will lead to being a great person. • Watching the way other people live their lives. • Knowledge gained from the experiences of others through reading about their lives.

  4. The ACT Reading test measures a test taker’s ability to understand, analyze and evaluate written passages.

  5. Use one operation to make the following equal to 825 1+6+806+101-8 Simple Solution

  6. Introductions BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL Christi Huffman Curriculum Coordinator Terri Lea Agricultural Education Kate Scott Family and Consumer Science

  7. Reading In High School ??!! Christi Huffman

  8. Facts about our (U.S.) children and reading • 2/3rds of the nation’ssecondary school students are reading below grade level • 3,000 students drop-out & the main reason= LACK of READING SKILLS • 11% of college studentsmust take remedial reading • About½ of Tennesseestudents can handle college-level reading Christi Huffman

  9. THINK IT’S JUST AN ELEMENTARY or MIDDLE SCHOOL PROBLEM?? THINK AGAIN!! 48% of the 2006 EXPLORE tested TENNESSEE students were on target in reading……… By the time we (high schools) finish with them…..that percentage is not any higher! Christi Huffman

  10. Increasing Vocabulary • Word Search • Definitions • Graphic organizers • Note/flash cards • Pic Wizards** • KIMS Model** • Worksheet**

  11. Read pages 19-22 Underline any word that would not be commonly used in your everyday vocabulary. Write these words in the right hand margin with a synonym for that word.

  12. Reading Success Benchmarks • EXPLORE= 15 • PLAN= 17 • ACT= 21 DO WE KNOW WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE?????? • Examples of what is takes to make the 21 • Identify a clear main idea or purpose of straightforward paragraphs in uncomplicated literary narratives. • Understand the implication of a familiar word or phrase and of simple descriptive language • Draw simple generalizations and conclusion about people, ideas and so on in uncomplicated passages. Christi Huffman

  13. Predicted ACT Reading Score:______________ 1st ACT Practice Test: Score:______ +/- Prediction:_______ Grade:_______ 2nd ACT Practice Test: Score:______+/- Prediction:_______ Grade:_______ 3rd ACT Practice Test: Score:______+/- Prediction:_______ Grade:_______ 4th ACT Practice Test: Score:______+/- Prediction:_______ Grade:_______ All ACT Practice Tests do count as a grade. The following is a break down of the grades in relation to the students predicted score. Scoring 2 or more points ABOVE prediction: 100% Scoring 1 or more points ABOVE prediction: 97% Scoring EQUAL to prediction: 93% Scoring 1 points BELOW prediction: 90% Scoring 2 points BELOW prediction: 86% Scoring 3 points BELOW prediction: 82% Scoring 4 points BELOW prediction: 78% Scoring 5 points BELOW prediction: 74% Scoring 6 or more points BELOW prediction: 70% Kate Scott

  14. Using ACT Reading in the Classroom • ACT and PLAN in the classroom (include in lesson plans) • Directed Study- -A+ including ACT • Etymology- study of words- use ACT vocabulary! • ACT Wednesdays • CTE Reading practice tests in CTE classes • ACT 30+ Club • ACT All Stars

  15. Career-Technical Classes • Original Purpose- • To improve state-mandated testing and ACT Reading • Realized Purposes- • Better readers create better workers who make more income • Every CTE discipline/career eventually leads to a mandated exit exam….. • Health Sciences- Nursing exam, MCAT • Family and Consumer Science – Teaching Praxis, Various Early Childhood Certification Exams. • Business- CPA exam, Real estate License • Agricultural- Commodity Broker, Commercial Chemical Application test, Safety exams

  16. What else happened….. In an effort to meet the state CTE competencies and have more practice in reading, books were purchased as a classroom set- • Teacher created tests & quizzes with questions in ACT format based on each book • Technology incorporated (multimedia projector with an electronic copy of the book along with the audio version) • Diverse learning styles addressed • Study Skills addressed Terri Lea

  17. Other reasons CTE uses reading…… Leadership Development Purpose- • To motivate students • To develop team-building skills • To create self-improvement skills • To build positive change

  18. Books we’ve used….. Spenser Johnson Who Moved My Cheese for Teens Death's Acre The first collaboration between Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, Bass and Jefferson take their readers inside the real Body Farm, recounting how it was created and some of Bass' more interesting forensic cases in his long career. Jon Gordon The Soup Book, No Complaining Rule, The Energy Bus Andy Andrews The Traveler’s Gift, The Noticer Others- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens & workbook, Fish! Philosophy Who Moved My Cheese for Teens?

  19. Terri Lea tlea@tipton-county.com 901-837-5800 Website-www.tipton-county.com/bhs Address: 8045 Highway 51 South, Brighton, TN 38011

  20. Sparknotes.com • Copy and paste • http://www.readplease.com/ • http://www.spellingcity.com/ • http://www.portaportal.com/ • http://guest.portaportal.com/tnaged • http://guest.portaportal.com/atcoolstuff

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