Ninth Grade Writing Goals

Adopt various writing strategies such as brainstorming and freelance writing, drawing and outline, consultation with teachers, draft, peer editing

Distinguish between display and explanation (summary, not only actions, but also dramaization, building roles by means other than direct characterization etc.)

I am teaching the ninth grade English art, and my student should pass the standardized test in Spring (English I STAAR in Texas), including writing captions. Every year in Texas State we publish examples of papers written by students and their titles. I study each of these cases, how bad things I write about them, and how sorry they are in writing in the real world. As a teacher, it is easy to act with standardized tests to meet the needs of the students. This is a kind of harm for students, so they are not ready to be good writers, they can continue to write after graduating from high school.

For all grade students, the ninth grade is the "success or break it" year. From the 8th grade to the 9th grade, the academic performance may change dramatically, and the results of the 8th grade students are extremely important for final high school graduation and university preparation preparation. In fact, the results of the ninth grade at elementary school will more accurately predict the possibility of graduating from high school than all other factors such as race, sex, socio-economic status, previous academic record, etc. In the ninth grade "freshman", you may have five full year units within the first semester in the core curriculum, and high school graduates may not be on a quadruple orbit. Of course, the main driving force of failure is absenteeism. The attendance rate of the first grader of the university is eight times that of the test of the eighth grader.

· · · There are many students planning 9th graders, and since the 10th graders are not promoted or excluded, "9th graders" and "10th graders" are created at the time of admission. Due to poverty the abandonment rate of the ninth grade has increased, and 40% of low-income schools are leaving after ninth grade compared to 27% in low school age (National High School, 2007). · It began to threaten poor performance, poor enrollment rate, high school graduation at this stage, and began to appear in four major high school dropout categories (Balfanz, 2007). things

American Psychological Association. (2012). I am facing a school dropout dilemma. Washington, DC: writer. From http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/school-dropout-prevention.aspx