Springtime in Georgia brings abundant pollen, April showers, restless middle school learners, and the state end of year Milestones testing. This year I decided to craft "work at your own pace" station rotations that emphasized the three types of writing prompts students would see plus some additional stations to support our study of poetry and … Continue reading “Milestones Mania and More!” Station Rotations and Review
We're sprinting toward EOC testing this Friday with some inquiry stance/noticings based activities for informational/explanatory constructed response prompts and extended constructed response narrative prompts. Using materials available to the public from the Georgia Department of Education, students had opportunities to read literary and informational texts. We then looked at possible constructed response and extended constructed … Continue reading EOC Writing Test Prep with Noticings and an Inquiry Stance
This Friday, April 27 and Monday, April 30, my juniors will take the Georgia Milestones/End of Course test in 11th American Literature and Composition Language Arts, a state exam that counts as 20% of their final average. Though ideally I would have done more intentional writing loops earlier in the year like those outlined in … Continue reading Strategic Writing Loops and Blind Peer Review for the Georgia Milestones EOC Test
