Choose Your Assessment (You Will Work Alone)

Choose Your Assessment (You Will Work Alone)

Hooray! Hooray! It's rewrite day!

Objective: Students will monitor their progress and make a plan to revisit concepts giving them trouble to improve their grade.

Rationale: In work, in school, and in life, it's important to assess yourself and monitor your progress as you learn. Whether it's in science class, on the basketball team, or in a relationship, it's valuable to examine your strengths and weakness and make a plan to move forward. I have just given you a copy of your grades. I would like you to examine your grades to determine which concepts you are struggling with. Then, you'll have time to revisit them.

Choose your assessment (You will work alone):

  1. Choose one open response you wrote this year which received a grade of 2 or lower (check with me if you're not sure). Read the exemplar for that response in the green binder, view the assessment rubric, and then rewrite yours.
  2. Choose an open response you wrote this year that received a grade of 2 or lower and analyze why your answer was wrong. Write me a letter outlining what was weak about the response and what you should have done differently.
  3. Revise your Outsiders narrative prompt, focusing on including sensory details. You should have at least 20 details that the reader can "see," "hear," or "smell," when they are reading.
  4. Take out your Holocaust journal entries and revise, focusing on including sensory details. You should have at least 20 details that the reader can "see," "hear," or "smell," when they are reading.
  5. If you don't have any grades you want to improve, create a Powerpoint or glog that outlines the process for either writing an open response or revising a composition for ideas. I'll present the best one to the class.
  6. *** SUPER CHALLENGE: View all the open response exemplars in the green folder and try to determine a pattern of what makes them so strong. Create a handout for a classmate that outlines the patterns of a successful OR.
  7. Roll the DICE!

Scaffolding: While working, if you get frustrated, follow this procedure:

  1. Read the assessment guidelines again.
  2. Examine my feedback on the original assessment and look at the exemplars in the green folder.
  3. If this doesn’t help, raise your hand to get my attention and we'll have a writing conference.
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