Excellent Learning Habit Tickets

 

 
     

Tickets are 10% of a student's total grade.

Students earn tickets for actions that will enhance their learning and by demonstrating that they are becoming independent learners and critical thinkers.

Students turn in twenty tickets every five weeks.

Students may receive credit for up to two extra tickets per turn in date. This is the main form of extra credit in this class. 

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Earn Excellent Learning Habit Tickets! 

  • Enter any local, state or National Writing Contest.

    • Letters About Literature 2005 contest, sponsored by California Center for the Book, is underway.  This year's deadline is December 4, 2004. Updated information, as well as a copy of the guidelines and entry form, are now available on this website at: http://www.calbook.org/programs/current/lal/takepart.html

    • Reflections contest-- 5 tickets. Fall quarter only--here is the link for details:  www.cvmsptsa.com/reflections.htm  

    • Newspapers in Education contest - 5 tickets (1st semester only)

    • American History Essay Contest 2004-2005:  Along the Trail with Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery.  

      • Due date:  Nov. 1. Mailed to the De Anza Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

      • Directions will be available in class by 9/17.

      • Tickets:  15 for a well written and researched essay.

      • Research suggestions:  visit The Smithsonian web page for links to a year long series of journal entries from the people who were actually on the Lewis and Clark expedition.  Use the search option on the left side of their website to find these journal entries. 

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  • Find our vocabulary words from our current reading and/or WordMaster vocabulary words in print, write the sentence down on a 3 x 5" card, then share with our class that sentence and how the author is using that word in that particular context and you'll earn a ticket.  You can bring in as many words as you want.  Infinite tickets are possible.

  • Participate in Literature Study Circles:  Earn tickets when you pose insightful questions about the text we're reading, respond to other's comments and questions and find evidence in the text to support your ideas.

  • Write your homework in your agenda:  Students who record their homework in their student agenda without being reminded on block days may occasionally earn an Excellent Learning Habit Ticket.

  • Contribute to class by doing a class job:  Every three weeks we switch jobs.  Students who didn't have a job last time get first pick of the roughly 15 class jobs. 

  • Ask insightful, thought provoking questions which enhance our class discussion or research the answers to such questions and share your learning with the class.

  • Memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class.  (Must be at least ten lines long.)

  • Tickets for Tissues -- click here for details.

  • Earn at 15 or above on the WordMasters Analogy Test.  A score of 15 is worth five tickets.  (We may not do this 2004-2005-- we'll discuss this as a class.)