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Facilitator Guide: Flex Option — Email Etiquette

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Flex Option — Email Etiquette

Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.

Daily Learning Contract

Topic: Formal email decisions

Objective: Students will evaluate whether a school email has a clear purpose, appropriate tone, necessary context, and an actionable request, then revise weak messages.

TEKS: No independent Grade 8 Technology Applications TEKS claim. This lesson provides operational, preparatory, or cross-curricular evidence.

Demonstration of learning: Four repaired emails plus one complete school email and a brief annotation explaining one tone or clarity revision.

Use what is already in Canvas

Student-facing task: OPTION · Email Etiquette. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.

  • Career + Communication Flex Menu
  • Lucero email-etiquette deck slides 1–28
  • district practice document

Before students begin

  • Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
  • Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
  • Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.

Lesson flow

  1. 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will repair weak messages and draft one useful school email.
  2. 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin formal digital communication.
  3. 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
  4. 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
  5. 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Four repaired emails and one useful email connected to an actual school need.

Scaffolds and teacher decisions

Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.

Close the loop

Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.