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Select: Option #2 Teacher Preview AccessSelect Language ArtsSelect Writing America AP Edition MyWritingLab with eText

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Select the Writing America AP Edition MyWritingLab with eText from the left hand navigation.

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Accessing and Navigating the eText

Once you are logged into the course, select eText from the left menu, then click View to launch. The eText will open in a new window. You can always toggle back to MyWritingLab while keeping your eText open.

The tools on the top include highlighting, note-taking, whiteboard view, bookmarking, search, and page navigation

The Table of Contents and allows you to jump to a particular Unit, Chapter, or selection.

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Main Menu

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Content and OrganizationMyWritingLab for Writing America is divided into three major parts.

1. Textbook specific resources that offer additional instruction, practice, and assessment for the selections in Part 2, the Anthology.

2. Foundational writing skills remediation and enrichment that delivers an individualized study plan based on the results of an initial skills diagnostic.

3. Writing practice with pre-set prompts for student response with automatic essay scoring (intelligent essay scoring) based on six traits of writing.

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Course Home Page

Starting from your course home page, click Select Activities: Your Textbook from the left menu to access the Learning Path for Part 2, the Anthologysection of your textbook. Each module is organized around a unit in part 2 of your textbook. In this example we are looking at the Complete exercise in Unit 2, Emerson, The American Solider.

The marginal icons in the textbook indicate where there are addition instruction, practice, and assessment activities in MyWritingLab. The online activities from Part 2, the Anthology, are organized by Unit, Chapter, and selection in the MyWritingLab Writing America Module Learning Path.

Navigating the Writing America Learning Path

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AP TEST PREP

Exclusive to Writing America with MyWritingLab is the AP Online Test Bank that offers 500 questions that test student comprehension of the content of EACH chapter. The Test Bank allows teachers to measure each student’s mastery of every topic covered in the book. This module is hidden from student view and only accessible when teachers assign an individual or bank of items. The test items can be completed online or printed and submitted. These assignments are graded by the teacher.

To preview AP Test Prep:1. Open Course Tools from left menu2. Select Activities Manager from left menu 3. Select Jolliffe/Roskelly tab from top navigation4. Use drop-down to select a unit, click go, select topic, click go.5. Use drop-down on Actions list on the right to preview, list, assign, edit

question.6. Once a question or set of questions is assigned, it/they will appear on the

students’ Learning Path in the AP Test Prep module.

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Navigating Writing Skills Remediation

Students take the Writing diagnostic by selecting Writing Path Builder (this is already complete in your demo.) The diagnostic will inform the personalized Learning Path where students will work to mastery on any skills they did not demonstrate proficiency. Click on the Learning Path.

Based on the Path Builder results, each student is presented with a personalized Learning Path that targets and accelerates remediation mapped individual needs. Here you see all of the modules needed for mastery. A indicates that the topic has been mastered. A indicates more work is required. Select a module to explore.

Learning Path

Each module includes a Skills Check. A second, more discrete diagnostic that allows student a second opportunity to demonstrate mastery on the topics included in the particular module. This additional assessment helps student move more quickly through the topics and further focus on areas where they need the most help. Take a skills check or preview the activities associated with a topic in your learning path.

Topic Module

Instant, guided feedback

Multimedia resources at point of use.

There are multiple practice opportunities, with instant and guided feedback and point of use learning aides, to help student to recall, apply, and demonstrate mastery of each skill.

Working Through a Module

The result of each activity is captured in the Gradebook.

Activities

Once critical comprehension is mastered through Recall and Apply, students are ready to Write. Here, they transfer their comprehension into actual writing. Write exercises prompt students to demonstrate their ability to write correctly, using the topic’s skill. Each writing topic has a list of 10-15 writing prompts from which the students may choose. (Teachers have the flexibility to hide prompts or add their own.) The submission is sent to the teacher for grading and student’s can access a model response after they have completed the assignment.

After successful completion of the topic activities, students take a post test to demonstrate mastery and they are ready move on to the next topic.

Achieving Mastery and Moving on

The third module is Writing Practice. This offers a number of pre-set writing prompts on a variety of topics for student to practice crafting effective essays. As with all content in MyWritingLab, these activities can be assigned for specific due dates, removed or re-sequenced.

Writing Practice

When students submit their essay, they receive instant feedback based on six traits of writing: Ideas, Organization, Conventions, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, and Voice. They can drill down to the Writing Advisor for more discrete feedback for each trait and find links to additional instruction, practice, and concept modeling. Each prompt allows for 3 draft submissions.

Students continually monitor their progress through their personal Gradebook. Teachers manage student work and progress through their comprehensive Gradebook and can view and export data in multiple ways to help inform and adjust in-class instruction and provide more targeted remediation where needed.

View by cohort or individual student – monitor progress on the learning path, on individual assignments, or performance by topic area.

Individual student views allow you to see overall performance or drill down to an item level analysis.

Review whole class performance on specific topics to identify proficiency gaps.

Progress Monitoring

Activities/Assessment Managerallows you to customize your course, create your own exercises and tests, set mastery levels, or edit existing activities.

Document Sharing enables your to post your own content or import assignments.

Communication tools include email, discussion boards, and live chat.

Instructor Help links teachers to a wealth of self-guided support to create, customize, and manage courses.

The Gradebook includes real-time reporting and allows you to view student activity and progress in multiple ways, export and share data, add “offline” items, drop scores, and weight scores

All of the Course Management tools are conveniently located in the left hand navigation. Tools marked with an icon are for teacher access and view only.

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