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> From: Kimberly Clarkson <ClarksonK@sidwell.edu>
> Date: February 24, 2010 4:29:10 PM EST
> To: Kathleen Biden <kathleenbiden@me.com>
> Cc: Mary Dufour <dufourm@sidwell.edu>
> Subject: Finnegan & Spanish
>

> Hi Kathleen,
>
>
>
> I wanted to be in touch again to let you know about the final few
> grades of the trimester and how they have impacted Finnegan's 2nd
> trimester Spanish grade. While she started off the trimester well,
> she has struggled with our most recent unit on colors, clothing, and
> adjective agreement.
>
>
>
> As we discussed, her En mi clase imaginaria assignment was late, and
> she ended up earning a 13/20 due to a number of mistakes in her
> paragraph. On Monday she turned in her rough draft for her upcoming
> Trabajo de Ropa project. Students were not graded on grammatical or
> spelling accuracy on the rough draft, purely on meeting the
> requirements of the overall assignment; an introductory sentence,
> using at least 8 articles of clothing, at least 4 of the articles
> needed to be plural, and using at least 5 different colors.
> Finnegan did not include an introductory sentence or any colors in
> her rough draft paragraph, only had one plural item, and only used 6
> total articles of clothing. It was frustrating to grade her rough
> draft because I wasn't able to give her significant feedback that
> will be helpful in writing her final paragraph. It was also
> frustrating because it should have been quite easy for her to earn
> the 15/15 on the assignment, as opposed to the 9.5/15 she earned.
> On Tuesday, the class took their clothing & adjective agreement
> quiz. Finnegan earned a 27.25/35 (78%). She will be bringing home
> her Spanish folder (we call it the "carpeta") where she keeps her
> graded work later this week so you can review the quiz with her to
> see her areas of difficulty. It really wasn't any one particular
> area, but rather small mistakes scattered throughout that added up.
>
>
>
> I'm sorry to have to follow up my previous email with this,
> especially as she had been doing fine in Spanish up until recently.
> I have copied below her unit grades and her final 2nd trimester
> grade. Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
>
> ~Kimberly
>
>
>
> Conversation Unit (15% of overall): 95%
>
> Classroom & Colors Unit (30% of overall): 84%
>
> Oral Exam (30% of overall): 91%
>
> Clothing Unit (25% of overall): 76%
>
> 2nd Trimester Average: 86