Testing 2021 Day 2: ELA Session 2

Testing 2021 Day 2: ELA Session 2

22 school days left More testing today. We’ll be having one more day of testing tomorrow as students work through the math portion of the SC-Ready test. In class, though, we took our 25 minutes together to view a bit of a film version of Great Expectations....
Testing 2021 Day 1: ELA Session 1

Testing 2021 Day 1: ELA Session 1

Today students took the writing portion of the ELA SC-Ready test. It was a tiring test, but we persevered and made it through the questions, the TDA, the silence, the weird, posterboard-covered plexiglass isolation. Afterward, students in third period elected to stand...
TDA and Relaxation

TDA and Relaxation

The kids wrote another TDA today. I’ll be giving them feedback over the next couple of weeks regarding this as we near the final, actual TDA portion of the state-mandated year-end testing. Since it was a testing schedule, we only had a few minutes in each class....
Benchmark and the Door

Benchmark and the Door

Today students took the district-mandated benchmark test. Instead of shifting into a test schedule, though, we simply ran the test through students’ English class, which means we did not make any progress on the play. We did make progress on decorating our...