McRaeWrites

A Visual Journal Marking Rubric for a sketchbook or continuous full course project. Some of the categories are similar, as I designed this to be for an experimental sketchbook, pushing students to explore and experiment rather than stick with one or two styles they're good with.

A short research project designed to have students research local election candidates for mayor and town council. Could be expanded upon to talk about provincial/state or federal elections, but would need to be fleshed out a bit more.

A fun art project I used that is themed around creating Chimeras or warped versions of fantastical creatures. The goal is to make a creature that is as crazy, altered, or far out as possible, and avoid doing basic fantasy creatures like elves, dwarves, or hobbits. Try to push your students to be as experimental as possible! I have separate marking rubrics for ceramics, fine art, and 3D Art, so if you'd like an adapted handout please contact me and I can upload them separately.

When teaching English, I often use free writes to focus on what the specific class I'm teaching needs in terms of grammar and spelling. While they can be time-intensive in regards to marking and adding editor's notes, they are invaluable as a tool to show me where I need to focus on in my lessons. I also often creative spelling tests or vocabulary sheets based on what words I find misspelled. Overall, doing several Free Writes a year has been invaluable for me as an English Teacher

I created this for PE a few years back, but it could be used in almost any subject. It's supposed to be a feedback form you can use to give feedback to the students giving the lesson, and to base your own mark on.

I built this in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic to give kids an assignment that prompted them to do some vocabulary every day. This is designed to be fairly easy and some modifications are already built into the project! Obviously you can add/remove/modify/adapt as appropriate for your students!

This is a quick and easy set of questions to help students create the three character types - one flat/static, one round, and one dynamic. I use this as a precursor to having students write a full short story so they aren't going in completely unprepared. I also use this in tandem with my Setting/Genre/Mood/Tone and Themes Questions Package.

A fun little activity to promote reading instructions fully before beginning a task. Can be used as a discussion item for Critical Thinking afterwards.

A very basic "Word of the Day" Graphic Organizer.