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Artifacts
Spoon River Anthology Enquirer Rubric
To help students engage with a collection of poetry that they considered archaic,
I designed a lesson and formal assessment that engaged them in the stories within the poems. With this assessment
and others, I demonstrate my use of a vareity of formal and informal assessment techniques.
The Spoon River Anthology Enquirer assignment asked the students to write
tabloid-style articles about the stories within the poetry anthology. We reviewed People magazine for article
guidelines and as a class determined the rubric for this assignment. While writing the articles, the students made connections
between the problems in 19th century-fictional Spoon River and their community.
Click here to view rubric.
Apartheid and Civil Rights Timeline
Providing students with background knowledge for a novel set in an unfamiliar country
and time is crucial to understanding the novel's themes. The timeline assessment I designed demonstrates that I analyze
students' prior knowledge and plan instruction accordingly.
The timeline assessment asked students to research South Africa's apartheid and
the United States' Civil Rights Movement in preparation for reading Cry, the Beloved Country. I asked the students
to compare these two movements so connect the apartheid and anti-apartheid movements to the a movement that is more recognizable
to them. Students created posters comparing the two movements.
Click here to view a sample of student work.
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