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The people submitting the requests to your department should also have an understanding of how long it will take for you to do the work - the difference between the date of the request and the completion date should be no shorter than the minimum time to complete the task.
In my district, returning from spring break marks the beginning of the fourth marking period; the final countdown to summer vacation. Teachers and students alike look forward to school’s off season. Yet, before we can cross the finish line, there is one final obstacle to hurdle - testing season.
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There is no question that the academic endurance of both teachers and students is challenged by the onslaught of final tests, state assessments and exit exams at this time of the school year. The pressure for students to perform well has surely increased with the decision of many states to include students’ test scores on the “report cards” of teachers. As we approach the end of the year, the following classrom review should prove helpful, and even fun, no matter the grade level or content area in which you teach. Review with Flash Cards Flash cards are a simple and effective way to study.
Students can use them to self-quiz or to challenge a partner. Flashcards can be created for any important, terms, or topics. Get creative and ask students to devise pictures or symbols to help them remember the given term or topic. Throughout the year, ask students to take notes on note cards so that the flashcards are ready to use. Show Review Students love competition.
Games can be created in PowerPoint, as a Google presentation, or by just simply using flashcards. In fact, there are several templates in docs for Jeopardy! The same concept can be used to create an “Are you smarter than.” game or a contest of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” = Student-Generated “Quiz” Questions Allow students to create questions and answers to challenge classmates. One variation of this activity is to assign a certain number of questions on a given topic to be added to a collaborative project. Use a Google doc template to go paperless and provide an opportunity for collaboration. Topic or Question of the Day Post one review question or problem every day for the last few weeks of school.
Encourage students to keep track of the questions and answers in their notebooks. Another idea is for students to submit their answers in a secret ballot style. Reveal the correct answer at the next class meeting. Review Organizers Create interesting graphic organizers to help students organize important information with more aesthetic appeal Sometimes all it takes is a simple stray-from-the-norm approach to help engage students. Pictionary Review Game Just like students love the game show concept, they never seem to turn down a chance to write on the board. Write a topic, concept or vocabulary word on an index card. Students work as teams to draw hints on the board without the use of spoken or written words.
Students As Teachers Allow students to do the instructing. Assign one topic to a single student, pair or group. Set the standards for the presentation such as the requirement of a visual or a certain time limit for presenting. As the audience, students can take notes on the lesson so they receive information on all of the assigned topics. Students As Graders Copy anonymous student essays or sampler essays and rubrics and put students to work. Allowing students an opportunity to assess others’ work can give them an idea of what works and what doesn’t work especially in writing.
Scavenger Hunt Give students a list of review topics and send them to their notebooks to seek the answers. This allows for review and also helps to teach the value of keeping good notes. An alternative would be to allow students to partner up or work in teams. Review with Foldables The graphic organizer meets origami. Foldables are a hands-on way for students to organize information and there are endless ways to manipulate paper. In a basic sense, foldables require students to put a general topic on the outside and more detailed information on the inside. They are great with any subject.
For some great foldable ideas click You can also check out the TeachHUB blog on! Review Stations Break review into sections such as time periods, chapters or units. Provide review questions and allow students a certain amount of time at each station. Stations could include helpful materials such as notes, books, articles, etc.
Tic-Tac-Toe Review Game This activity can be used with the whole class, but probably works better with small groups. In any case, you need two groups and each group is assigned either X or O. Draw the a tic-tac-toe board on paper or the board. Students earn the ability to place their X or O marker on the game board if they answer a teacher-read question correctly.
Any of the above ideas can be manipulated to work with different class sizes, content areas and grade levels. You may choose to use a review activity for fun or give students credit for correct answers and participation. And remember, review for a tests doesn’t have to be boring. Share your awesome review ideas in the comments section!
The Box Office: By the time you read this, Independence Day: Resurgence will have already opened in North America. The film was withheld by 20th Century Fox from domestic critics before its domestic theatrical debut. While it’s not the most expensive movie ever withheld from press screenings (it cost around $165 million while G.I.
Joe: The Rise of Cobra cost $175 million back in 2009), it is unusual. And, of course, reviews may not matter much in this case. Nor, that matter, may domestic box office.
Since this is a Roland Emmerich disaster movie, the real money will probably be made overseas. For example, 2012 (which I will argue was pretty good) earned $166 million domestic off a $65 million debut but earned $769 million worldwide in November 2009. I once thought this would be one of the biggies of the summer, combining nostalgia for an iconic 1990s mega-blockbuster with a “requel” that brought together much of the old cast. Think (simplistically speaking) Jurassic World meets Star Wars: The Force Awakens, although, no, I wasn’t expecting a $1.6 billion to $2 billion final gross. But there really hasn’t been much buzz. There has been shockingly little promotion beyond viral videos and online gimmicks that don’t necessarily sell the movie itself.
Maybe this is a case where online interest is negated by general audiences flocking to the theater, with kids in tow, to indulge in another helping of what was something of a generational touchstone. The Review: Independence Day: Resurgence is terribly unremarkable to the point of being terrible.
It is the least imaginative, least challenging Independence Day sequel you could imagine. The ships are bigger, the catastrophe is greater, and the action is more plentiful. But everything else is in painfully short supply. They had twenty years to prepare, and this is the best they could come up with? Aside from some cool sci-fi ideas and a few interesting action beats, it is a choppy bore. The film lacks both a sense of what the world would be like after the events of the first film as well as any real concrete drama as the unthinkable happens yet again. It goes through the motions with such unfeeling monotony that it all but rubs our noses in its irrelevance.
There are hints in the opening reel of an interesting status quo, one where the world stayed united in the two decades since the initial cataclysmic invasion. But the picture spends an inordinate amount of time establishing what turns out to be something of a red herring. No spoilers, but this film spends a ridiculous amount of its scant 110-ish minute running time planting the seeds for the next installment. The good news is that the sequel has potential.
The bad news is that we had to go through this redundant redux which threatens the existence of said sequel. Like a lot of franchise reboots, this film serves little purpose beyond setting up a new franchise that may never be. Really, they had a good idea for a sequel but made us sit through this one first, even though this film is bad enough that we may never get the “preferred” sequel. To its credit, Independence Day: Resurgence takes its time before getting to the world-destroying pay-off, reintroducing us to franchise vets (Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Judd Hirsch, and an inexplicably not-dead but totally engaged Brent Spiner) and offering younger would-be heroes who will anchor the next chapters. Oh, and they give Goldblum a younger new love interest (Charlotte Gainsbourg) while totally forgetting about Margaret Colin from the first film. Liam Hemsworth is fine, but he’s forced to play “generic hero guy.” Maika Monroe and Jessie T.
Usher are re-cast versions of Bill Pullman’s daughter and Will Smith’s son while Angelababy is a romantic prize to be won, who is amazingly passive during key action sequences. There are other characters of note, including Sela Ward as the President, but there is little time to focus on anyone for any period of time. Oh, and also forgotten is James Duval as Randy Quaid’s oldest son. The forty-minutes builds up to the big attack while the rest of the film is one long “Now we fight back” climax. The film really has no “middle,” no moments when characters take a real stock at what has just transpired. When the destruction comes, it’s barely an afterthought to most of the characters and thus to us. The fact that billions of people are dying barely registers.
It’s background fodder for jokes and/or near-misses. Like 2012 (which is a better film overall thanks to strong interplay between Chiwetel Ejiofor and Oliver Platt), Emmerich stages jaw-dropping destruction but merely asks us to care whether certain major characters escape the carnage. Not only is there no dramatic weight to the destruction, the film constantly uses ill-timed humor to defuse the tension and lessen any potential for real drama. There is a lot more action in this noticeably shorter movie, and thus there is that much less of everything else (character development, storytelling, etc.). There is no real attempt to make the film work as drama, nor any attempt to actually make the movie be about anything at all other than watching characters new and old go through the same situation from twenty years ago. There is no sense of awe, nor even a sense of dread as the situation quickly turns hopeless. Goldblum and Pullman share but a single scene together while Judd Hirsch has an entirely extraneous subplot involving kids driving a school bus to safety.
Either there is much on the cutting room floor or Emmerich just wanted an excuse to work with Joey King. Another White House Down vet, Nicolas Wright, basically plays the exact same character but has fun bouncing off of Deobia Oparei as a would-be warlord with a connection to the aliens. The film isn’t so much “bad” as it is just “there.” The pulse never quickens, the heart never races, and everyone just goes through the motions in the safest way possible.
Everyone looks bored or just tired, and the feeling is contagious. To be fair, there are some interesting sci-fi ideas that pop up in the last half-hour, and the final battle has some interesting imagery even as it goes on seemingly forever. And without going into details, it’s a little embarrassing how the film goes out of its way to reaffirm conventional norms in a way that doesn’t really show any progress over the last twenty years. Like Emmerich and Devlin’s 1998 Godzilla, the final action scene has a certain “Where the hell was this movie all along?” kick that the preceding ninety minutes lack, but by then it’s too late. The film also ends with astonishing abruptness, offering a somewhat out-of-nowhere sequel teases and then smash-cutting to credits. I still have a certain fondness for the original Independence Day, a rousing and of-its-time blockbuster that had to offer enjoyable characters and real drama because it couldn’t really afford non-stop spectacle.
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This time around, the film is almost entirely spectacle, with no weight, no drama, and no real thematic depth. In 1996, Independence Day was the blockbuster to aspire to. In 2016, Independence Day: Resurgence is not just “not special,” but a cautionary tale about going back to the well without good cause. There really was no new story to tell, or new avenue to explore. In terms of planet-destroying carnage, less really is more. But the film’s primary deficit is in not making us care about the end of the world as we know it.
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