TDA Practice and a Guest Speaker

TDA Practice and a Guest Speaker

English 8 students began a hopefully-weekly bit of practice planning and thinking through Anne-Frank-related TDAs in preparation for the actual state-administered TDA next month. Local attorney Jim Bannister met today with Mrs. Hinner’s and my English I classes...
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....