Credit+Recovery

A) **Cluster Name:** Credit Recovery, 11th/12th Grade

B) **Cluster Leader(s):** Pat O., Emily B., and Thandi

C) **Cluster Goal** (ie What do you want to accomplish in this cluster? Example: //The Music Label Cluster will allow participants to learn how to write, record and produce their musical ideas in order to create a demo CD.)// Students will earn up to .5 credit. Students were given permission to earn this credit from individual teachers and were provided work by these teachers for students to work on during Rensizzle Week

D) **Names of Student Documentarians:** All students are accountable for the work they do each day. Students fill out a sheet describing their goals for each day and what they have accomplished.

E) **Experiences Students Will Have:** Students will have a sense of accomplishment when they finish their work and earn the missing credit. On Friday, 3/27, students will go to I Hop and bowling.

F) **People or Groups Students Will Meet:** The people at I Hop and the bowling alley.

G) **Skills Students Will Learn:** Students will learn how to organize their time and be responsible for their work and credit recovery.

H) **Artifacts or Work Products Students Will Have For their Scrapbook/website:** Students will have their completed work, photographs, and anything else they decide to produce.

Monday, March 23: Students will collect work they must do to recover .5 credit from the teachers of the courses they failed. Students have a daily accountability sheet they will fill in to describe their goals for the day and, at the end of the day, describe the work they accomplished that day.
 * __ Cluster’s Curriculum Plan (March 23-30): __**

Tuesday, March 24: Students will work on the work they were given Monday, March 23. They will fill in their second day accountability sheet and put it in the folders I gave them yesterday.

Wednesday, March 25th: Thandi will come into TLC to check on the students who are doing their work. She will collect first drafts of their essays and give them new work. Students will then begin that work. Students will again fill out daily accountability sheet and put it in their folders.

Thursday, March 26th: Nick will check with his credit recovery students to see how they are doing with their essays on wikispaces. Thandi will give students their corrected first drafts of the essay assignment she gave them and these students will begin working on the final draft.

Friday, March 27th: Students will work in the morning and go bowling at 1 p.m. Group may or may not go to lunch before bowling; it depends on cost. Corrected first drafts were handed in to Thandi before students could leave for lunch and bowling.

Monday, March 30th: Description of presentation: Students will not be presenting. All Thandi's students handed in their final draft of the essay that wa required. All but two handed in the outline as well. All students handed in the reading material and answered multiple choice questions based on the reading.