- All right, class.
What are some things that you're going to be listening for when
your peers are up here reporting their answers?
What are you going to be looking for? Zanaya?
- Good examples.
- Yes, good examples.
Something else. Zariel?
- To see if they were vague or not.
- Yes. What does it mean to be vague?
What does it mean to be vague, Alex?
- What it means to be vague is that you're not explaining it fully.
You can say I had a cupcake but you're not talking
about what type of cupcake.
- Yes, very good.
It's just a general statement. Olivia?
- To explain more.
- Yes, explain more. Akaneli?
- To meet all the requirements.
- Yes. And what are the requirements?
What do you need to do in order to get a great score for
these open-ended questions? What do you need to do,
just say my paper is good because it's me? What do you need to do,
Amir?
- Give a good opening.
- Give a great opening, yes.
Anything else you need, Cyrus?
- Stay on topic.
- Stay on topic, all right. Amaji.
- You need to use the AROPEWOW.
- Yes, and what does that mean, AROPEWOW?
- A, analyze; R, restate the question;
O, your own words; P is proof; E is explain;
and WOW is can I relate to the story.
- Yes, okay.
Can you relate to Dusty? -Yes
- Being on edge? - Yes.
Okay. All right.
My group here already asked to go first. They asked to go second.
You could be going third, fourth, fifth, all right.
Remember, when people are up, are we going to be respectful
of one another? - Yes.
- Yes. If I feel that a group has a two, do I just say you have a two
and that's it? - No.
- What do I need to do?
- You need to explain why they have a two.
- Yes. What does it mean to get a two?
What does it mean to get a two?
What's the highest score you can get first of all, Inaya?
- The highest score you can get is a four.
- And what does that mean to have a four?
- A four means that you clearly demonstrated an understanding of the task.
- Yes. So if you get a two, do you clearly understand?
- No. - No, so what does a two mean?
What does a two mean, Ashad?
- You may have addressed all the require ment, but demonstrates a
partial understand ing of the task.
- Yes. What does it mean to have a partial understanding?
Azaya?
- A partial understanding means when you know half of the task,
but the rest, you didn't really explain in the task.
- Yes, you really didn't explain, okay?
So you want all four, right? - Yes.
Okay, are we ready? - Yes.
Okay. Take it over.
Ghostwriters... Hello?
- Good morning, Ms. McLeod and class.
- Good morning.
- In Iditarod Dream, Dusty is on edge about the obstacles on the trail.
Dusty is on edge because the first dream Iditarod he ever had,
an accident happened, which was his glasses got enormously foggy
and frozen, so he got lost.
But as they entered the woods, Dusty is on edge because he never entered
this trail before and it's crowded with obstacles.
- All right, talk to us first about what did you think?
- I think it's a one because we didn't really finish and we
didn't have any good details.
- All right. Everybody go to where you need to be.
- I will give you a two because you explained your proof too soon.
There wasn't any proof. You have details, just not enough though.
- Amani.
- Well, I'm going to say you didn't have a lot of details.
All you had was your own words and like [inaudible 00:04:12] said,
you didn't really finish, but if you finished, I believe you would have had a four.
- I gave you a two because you explained greatly and you had a
lot of details, but not as much, and if you all finished,
I would have gave you a four.
- I give you all a two because y'all, you all had great details,
thank you, Nazier. You all had great details, but you all were kind of vague.
- I gave you all a two because when you all said when there were
obstacles on the trail, like what obstacles were on the trail?
And I think if you want to finish, I would at least give you a four.
- Zariel.
- I will give you all a one, because you didn't have like,
that many details of how you were supposed to explain it,
and like Nazier said, you got to the proof to soon.
- I'd give you a two because, like Nazier and John said,
John said you were vague. I like the word when you said enormously,
something like that. But if you finished, I would give you a three,
between a three and a four.
- Okay, all right.
I think it's a consensus. It's about... hmm...
- 1.5 - I agree, a 1.5.
But I know that you guys would have gotten there had you finished, okay?
All right.
Who's up?
- Good morning, Ms. McLeod and class.
- Good morning.
- In Iditarod Dream, Dusty is on edge about the obstacles on the trail.
Dusty is on edge because he was worried he was going to get lost again.
He was also on edge because he saw the moose, which is a musher's
worst nightmare because it can kill several dogs.
Last, Annie, his lead dog, kept looking back for snowmobiles.
Then Dusty and Annie became nervous. According to the text it stipulates,
then he spots moose tracks on the trail and his fears mushed through.
Our proof is correct because it is one of the obstacles that Dusty faced.
Since the moose was there, he was even more on edge
because what if the moose attacked the team, then what would Dusty do?
Just like Dusty, Inaya was on edge once.
She was on edge when she was taking a test. She was worried and thinking,
"What did my teachers teach me?"
In conclusion, in Iditarod Dream, that's why Dusty was on edge
about the obstacles on the trail.
- I think you guys had a good beginning, but in the beginning
you were a little repetitive, I heard you and...
- Where, can you show us?
- You said because twice, like, right here in only two sentences,
and I think you could have explained a little more as well.
- We did explain.
- I know, but I think you could have explained more.
- About what?
- Like the moose, because when you explained this,
you were explaining about the moose tracks, right?
- That's why we were talking about what if the moose attacked the team?
- Because that's not proof, so we had to explain what we were talking about.
- I know. I just thought maybe you could explain more.
- I give you all a four because you had great details
and you didn't just throw random thoughts into your answer
and you had like, when you talked about how Inaya had related with Dusty,
you showed how she was like Dusty, like when you told, you weren't vague.
Like, when you said that she was just nervous,
you talked about how she was nervous and why she was nervous.
- And you had a clear understanding of the task.
- I give y'all a four, because y'all had... - You all.
- Oh my God. I gave you all a four because you have great details.
You weren't vague, and you have a great WOW.
- I will give you all a four because your details were great
and you had specific details
and you didn't have that many errors in your writing.
- Nazir.
- You guys deserve a four, well a 3.9 because you were,
that's the only thing that kept you away was, it was just repetitive.
You kept saying because.
- I give you all a 3.9 because you had great details.
I would say that you could have explained better.
Your explaining was good, but you could have explained better
and you were repetitive.
- Explain better in what? That's what we're asking you about.
- Explain in general. Just use more sophisticated words.
I didn't say that you didn't explain. I said you need to explain...
- More? - Yes.
- I don't understand what they're saying.
- I'm saying that you explained very well, just more.
- More details. That's what you're saying.
- All right, this is the last one.
- I think you deserve a four because you had a lot of details
and you explained a lot about your proof, and you explained about the WOW
because you did a lot about Inaya and how she was related to Dusty.
- What would you guys give yourself?
- A four.
- Why did you say that? Explain in your own words.
Why a four?
- Because we explained in great details and we had a lot of details
with our proof in our own words.
- And we used sophisticated words like stipulates.
- Yes, you did use sophisticated words like stipulates and I love it.
I agree. I concur with the Exploding Cobras. They do receive a four.
They did a great job. Good job.
Aren't we clapping?