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  • Doral Academy - Fire Mesa
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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The data is in from our state testing, and it seems our students have some ground to cover given the learning loss as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before Covid-19 sent our students into the unfortunate vacuum of virtual education, they were struggling to write solid, convincing, argumentative essays. Unfortunately, not being in the classroom exacerbated this problem. To be sure, until this past fall, many of my 7th graders have not had rigor in writing since the 5th grade when the pandemic began. They say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein is a masterpiece. This book provides templates and exercises that help students to "take the training wheels off," as I like to say, when it comes to learning to write persuasively and effectively. I am requesting a classroom set of this title that I will teach over the course of two years in my Social Studies classes. In 7th grade, students will work with mastering the concepts in the first half of the book, and, in the 8th grade, they will master the material in the second half. My goal is to increase state testing scores in writing by 25% by the spring of 2023.

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The data is in from our state testing, and it seems our students have some ground to cover given the learning loss as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before Covid-19 sent our students into the unfortunate vacuum of virtual education, they were struggling to write solid, convincing, argumentative essays. Unfortunately, not being in the classroom exacerbated this problem. To be sure, until this past fall, many of my 7th graders have not had rigor in writing since the 5th grade when the pandemic began. They say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein is a masterpiece. This book provides templates and exercises that help students to "take the training wheels off," as I like to say, when it comes to learning to write persuasively and effectively. I am requesting a classroom set of this title that I will teach over the course of two years in my Social Studies classes. In 7th grade, students will work with mastering the concepts in the first half of the book, and, in the 8th grade, they will master the material in the second half. My goal is to increase state testing scores in writing by 25% by the spring of 2023.

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