This week you'll begin your online HSA review course. The instructions for completing this are below. Follow the steps and you'll get your weekly homework credit. It's that simple! It will take you about fifteen minutes or so to complete each indicator review.
For this homework assignment you'll get to practice answering HSA-style questions. The sytem will tell you what you get right and wrong, and you'll have a chance to correct yourself and learn from your mistakes. We'll go over all of this material in class, but this give you an opportunity to get more practice in at home!
Each week leading up to the HSA Benchmark in late October you'll have to complete test questions for two separate indicators. The schedule is spelled out below. Aditionally, your blog reponse for the next five weeks will be centered around your work on this HSA review website.
Here are the three questions you'll have to answer every week in the comments section of this blog:
1. What concepts/ideas did you learn about when you studied the two HSA indicators for this week's homework?
Example Response: This week I worked on questions that dealt with pre-reading and during reading strategies (indicators 1.1.1 and 1.1.2). In these questions I learned how to...
2. What was easy/difficult for you in these questions? How did you do on each indictor? Did you score over or under 50% (i.e. 5/10)? Be specific!
Example Response: I found these questions very easy because I am a strong reader. I was able to use the reading strategies I learned in night grade and the strategies we're working on with Mr. Sabath to answer all of these questions. Some of the passages were a bit long, but I know I have to get used to reading on these tests. The poetry was also a bit tricky, so I'd like to get more practice reading poetry in this class with you, Mr. Sabath! Despite this, I got 90% of all the questions right for each indicator, so I think I'm ready for these kind of questions. (Or, I got less than 50% right on these questions, so I need extra practice with these kinds of questions that will appear on the HSA).
3. What is your opinion of this online test prep site? Why do you like it? Why don't you like it? Be specific!
Example Reponse: I love this site because it gives me a chance to practice my test-taking strategies.
Homework Schedule for First Quarter indicators:
September 12-18: Do the online exercises for indicators 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
September 19-25: Do the online exercises for indicators 1.1.4 and 1.2.2
September 26 –October 2: Do the online exercises for indicators 1.2.3 and 2.1.1
October 3 – 9: Do the online exercises for indicators 2.1.4 and 2.2.1
October 10 – 16: Do the online exercise for indicators 3.1.3 and 3.1.4
Online HSA Practice Directions:
High School Assessment Online Practice
Step 1: Go to http://apps.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/hsaprep/
Step 2: Enter your email address and name.Use this every time because the system will keep track of your progress.
Step 3: Pull down the subject tab to English.Choose the“By Indicator” test type that you are working on for the week.
Step 4: For each indicator, print out your results and return this data to class to get your homework grade for each week.Optionally, you can copy and paste your results into an email and send them from your PGCPS Gmail account to peter.sabath@pgcps.org.IF YOU DO THIS, PLEASE LIST YOUR NAME AND CLASS PERIOD IN THE SUBJECT LINE (eg. 2A, 2B, 3A, or 3B).If you don’t have a printer, bring in a letter from a parent stating this and use the charts attached (or create your own charts) to keep track of the questions you get right and wrong.Write down the indicator at the top of each chart and for each question put a check (or X) in the correct column if you get it right or in the incorrect column if you get it wrong.
As it is the first quarter, now you only have to focus on the first quarter indicators below as you prepare for your first quarter HSA Benchmark Exam during the last week of this quarter (October 17-26).
First Quarter Indicators: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.4, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 2.1.1, 2.1.4, 2.2.1, 3.1.3, 3.1.4
Second Quarter Indicators: 1.1.3, 1.2.1, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.3.5, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.5, 3.1.6,
3.1.8Third and Fourth Quarter Indicators: 1.3.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.3, 3.1.1, 3.2.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.2,
4.1.1, 4.2.1, 4.3.1
1. What concepts/ideas did you learn about when you studied the two HSA indicators for this week's homework?
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2. What was easy/difficult for you in these questions? How did you do on each indictor? Did you score over or under 50% (i.e. 5/10)? Be specific!
I Didnt Find Anything Easy Or Hard I Just Did What I Had TO dO....I DId Alright...Over 50% (i.e 6/10)
3. What is your opinion of this online test prep site? Why do you like it? Why don't you like it? Be specific!
Its Alright..... I Dont Like It Because Its To Much Focousing Invovled
-Steve Bella
1. I didnt really learn anything new it was just a review for me, I didnt really have any trouble wit it either.
ReplyDelete2. It wasnt anything that was hard or difficult for me to read, I understood mostly everything on the indicators.
3. well the prep test did what its supposed to do which is prepare you for the real HSA. I didnt like it because I usually dont like test, im not a test taker.
-Malik Stewart
1. What concepts/ideas did you learn about when you studied the two HSA indicators for this week's homework?
ReplyDelete-to learn the words and do my work.
What was easy/difficult for you in these questions? How did you do on each indictor? Did you score over or under 50% (i.e. 5/10)? Be specific!
-well it wasnt easy for me because idont really like to read. and I think I did good.
What is your opinion of this online test prep site? Why do you like it? Why don't you like it? Be specific!
-that is a good thing and make you learn more about HSA words and ilike it because it help you to undesrtand them better.
I learned that i have to focus on what i am reading so i would be able to understand it. I think it wasnt easy or hard it was like more in between i scored 6/8 on the first one and 5/10 on the second one. I think its good cause you can learn more but i dont like it cause sometimes its to much reading. -Tatiana M.
ReplyDelete1. i learned that you have to read everything carefully to understand it.
ReplyDelete2. it wasn't easy/difficult. i used the strategies i learned over the years. i scored over 50% (i.e. 9/10 and 10/10)
3. i think it's good for everyone even if you know or don't know these things. i don't like it because the stories aren't exciting enough. It puts me to sleep.
Javis Thomas
1. What I have learned about completing the HSA indicators 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 is that the strategy of pre-reading helps when making predictions or forming ideas about what the story may be about without having to read a really long pointless passage.
ReplyDelete2. The questions from these indicators were fairly easy other than the fact that some of the questions made no sense which made answering the question confusing and a bit time consuming but overall was really easy I scored a 5/6 on indicator 1.1.1 and a 10/10 on indicator 1.1.2.
3. The online HSA practice is very useful in preparing to take the HSA in which each time you take the same test twice the questions change a bit so one can't memorize the answers, I actually like it because it's faster and more efficient to complete online and it's less of a hassle.
-Ricky C.
Thanks for you effort, everyone! Don't forget to send me your test results, or print them out and bring to class.
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