Discussing accents

Here are three videos I show my pupils when we disuss different accents. Enjoy! / Her er noen morsomme videoer jeg viser til elevene når vi diskuterer forskjellige aksenter. Enjoy!

1) Video 1: Pink Panther going to America

Skriftlig vurderingskriterier / Written Assessment Criteria

Here are general written criteria that can be used for almost all written articles and essays. 

An example of a well structured argumentative text with teacher comments

Here is an example of a well written argumentative text with teacher comments. 
I have also included an excercise for pupils to work with and a checklist of how to structure paragraphs for argumentative texts.
Here is a power point discussing how to write argumentative texts.
Here are criteria that can be used for assessing argumentative texts.

Hvordan kan vi spore endringer i en tekst.

Det er lettere selvsagt for elevene å se at lærere har gjort endringer i en elevtekst når det en lærer har skrevet står i en annen farge. Mange lærere bytter farge på skriften hver gang de skriver noe i en elevtekst. Det kan være ganske tungvint, men fret not, det finnes en snarvei. Du kan nemlig spore endringer i tekster. Jeg har erfart at det er ikke så mange som vet om denne funksjonen, så her kommer oppskriften. Lykke til. 

The Kite Runner - Discussion Questions

My students are reading The Kite Runner. They will shortly have a conversation with me about the book. Here are the discussion questions for the task and the criteria. 

Argumentative task, assessment- criteria and form / Oppgave om en argumenterende tekst, vurderingskriterier og vurderingsskjema

Here is a task that can be used to write an argumentative text about The Civil Rights Movement. The assessment criteria are included in the task.

To work with this task, the students taking general studies (studiespesialiserende), worked with the theme the Civil Rights Movement. Here is an action plan that shows what the learners were expected to learn about this theme and the texts that were of interest.
Here is a power point I used to teach about argumentative texts and how to develop thesis statements.

To make sure that the learners understood how to argue, we worked with the theme: Should gun ownership be legal? The learners wrote down both pro and cons and then had to work with this draft here. It was made very clear to the learners that the paragraph structure that is written in the draft is just ONE way of writing a discussion paragraph for an argumentative text. Another way could be that after the introduction, the learners present all the pro arguments in the first part of the text, and then present the arguments against their point of view/thesis statement in the next part. Then, the learners would have to write another discussion paragraph which shows why they feel that their point of view is better followed by a conclusion of course.

Before the learners turned in their texts, they had to go through this self-evaluation checklist. 

Here is an assessment form that can be used to give assessment. Before I use this form, I write comments in the text using "se gjennom/view" and then "spor endringer/track changes". I also mark some grammatical errors (NOT ALL) using macros. 

Argumentative texts vs. Persuasive texts / Argumenterende tekster / Thesis Statement

Here's a power point that explains the difference between an argumentative text and a persuasive text. I have also explained the characteristics of good thesis statements for argumentative texts. 

Her er en powerpoint som viser forskjeller mellom en argumenterende og en persuasive tekst. Jeg har også forklart hvordan vi kan skriver gode "påstander" eller "thesis statements" når vi skriver argumenterende tekster.