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Teacher Work and Resources We at Pacific High School would like to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and resources for teachers, particularly for teachers at Expeditionary Learning Schools, small schools, alternative schools, and schools or classrooms serving students with multiple risk factors. We are starting by publishing some of our work here, and we would like to encourage you to submit your work for publication as well. Right now everything on this site was designed for high school; if there is demand for resources for other grade levels, we can try that out, too. Click here for submission information. Most of the resources on this page are Word documents Rubrics Please consider having your students write your rubrics, as a class. It is a great way to get students to contribute to and understand the scoring criteria and buy in to the use of the rubric. If you are worried about them setting low standards, don't be- my students have always set their standards at least as high as I would have. Student-generated rubric assignment and resulting rubric Example of critique form for a student generated rubric by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School 6+1 Traits of Writing on a 4-point scale NWREL's 6+1 Traits of Writing Rubric retrofitted for schools using 4-point scales adapted by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Brief 6+1 Traits of Writing on a 4-point scale Shorter, less objective, more descriptive, version of the 4-point 6+1 Traits Rubric Writing Process Rubric by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Effective Collaborator Rubric From the Ontario School Counsellors' Association Career Studies page Could be revised to be more objective. Oral Presentation Rubric by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Lab Report Rubric by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Photojournalism Rubric by Phil Burdick of Pacific High School Rubric and exemplar for students to practice using the rubric, for a Bill of Rights Book project by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Point-based rubric for lab work & notebooks by Sarah Ferrency of Pacific High School Interview Rubric (student-generated) by Sarah Ferrency and students of Pacific High School Persuasive Essay Rubric (student-generated) by Sarah Ferrency and students of Pacific High School Lesson Plans Projects Tlingit Trade Game (pdf, 102 KB) This is a printable pdf version of a board game created by noted scholars Richard Dauenhauer, Nora Dauenhaeur, and Patricia Partnow. "The Tlingit Trade Game is a simulation board game which is designed to acquaint 4th graders and up with the pre-contact trade system in which the Tlingits played the important role of middlemen." All necessary pieces (except for dice & tokens) can be downloaded here: Game board assembly instructions and back (4.5 MB), Game Board front (4.5 MB), Tlingit Island Commodity cards (1.4 MB), Tlingit Mainland Commodity cards (1.3 MB), Copper River Commodity cards (0.2 MB), Southern Tribes Commodity cards (0.1 MB), Interior Tribes Commodity cards (0.4 MB), Town cards (0.5 MB), Hazard cards (0.4 MB), Boon cards (0.3 MB). For educational use only- please see copyright information embedded in Teacher's Guide. Expeditions or Unit Plans NIH Curriculum Supplements Home Excellent short, in-depth, project based curricula on a variety of high-interest topics. PHS is using "The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology Through the Study of Addiction" and the middle school curriculum "The Science of Mental Illness" in our Health class this year. Annotated Bibliographies and Book Lists Holocaust Annotated Bibliography Civil Rights Annotated Bibliography Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire from Cornell University ILR School Teaching Protocols Chalk Talk from the Coalition of Essential Schools website Socratic Seminar an OK resource until I get a btter one Peer Critique Protocols adapted from Expeditionary Learning Writing I workshop by Sarah Ferrency The Writing Workshop The Reader's Workshop Building Background Knowledge Workshop Gallery Walk-- Building Backgroung Knowledge Both BBKs adapted by Sarah Ferrency from workshops given by Beverly Chin. This is far and away the best thing I've learned from ELS. RAFTS Writing Prompts Professional Development Tuning Protocol from the Coalition of Essential Schools website Reading Instruction Annotated Bibliography Writing Instruction Annotated Bibliography last updated 11/5/06