Write a reaction paper that involves both articles.

Article 1 : Highly motivated kids have a greater advantage in life than kids with a high IQ By Rebecca haggerty

Article 2 : Should Millions of Students Take a Gap Year? Large Numbers of Students Start the School Year Above Grade Level By Scott J. Peters, Karen Rambo-Hernandez,etc.

Criteria for Reaction PaperSelf Assessment

1.) Main ideas stated clearly.

1. How am I doing?

2. What am I doing well?

2.) Reactions include-

3. What do I need to do to

a.) a statement of your opinion improve?

b.) a text to self connection

1.) prior knowledge

c.) a text to text connection

d.)a text to world connection

3.) One page- double-spaced, font size- 12

Ask yourself-

1.) What is the author trying to say?

2.) What do you think? Does it make sense to me?

3.) Did I explain my thinking by giving examples to support my opinion?

4.) Why are the author/s ideas important to the education of all children?

5.) Did I express my opinion, examples (text to self, text to text, and text to world connections) in grammatically correct sentences?

6.) How will I apply these ideas when I am teaching?

Possible Teacher

Points Assessment

1.) Main ideas stated clearly

2.) Opinion stated clearly

3.) Examples to support each opinion

4.) Grammatically correct sentence structure