Cameron | Corbin | David | Delaney | Grace | Hannah | Julianna | Maggie | Michael | Morgan | Payton | Rachel | Savannah | Sean
The middle of the classroom is set up with two rows of chairs facing each other
- Please follow your name to highlighted text extracted from : Koretz, D. (2017). The testing charade: pretending to make schools better. Ch. 7, Test Prep.
- Take a minute to read and reflect on your highlighted text then two (2) minutes to:
- Read your quote to your partner, and
- Listen as your partner reads her quote to you.
- Discuss the two quotes.
- What do you think is the primary thesis of the chapter?
- Switch partners and repeat steps three (3) through six (6) three (3) times and then…
- Link to the Koretz Test Prep Block Party Question Wall
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Koretz Test Prep Block Party Process
- Distribute quotes to the students and give them a minute to read and reflect;
- Set up a circle of 7 chairs and invite 7 students to sit down;
- Invite the rest of the students to stand in front of one of the seated students.
- On my mark, students are asked to share both quotes and then engage in some discussion about what they think is the primary thesis of the chapter. (2minutes)
- The standing students move to the next chair and repeat step 4. (2minutes)
- The standing students move to the next chair and repeat step 4. (2minutes)
- The standing students move to the next chair and repeat step 4. (2minutes)
- Each student writes a question for Dr. Koretz, the author of the Test Prep chapter, on the Koretz Test Prep Block Party Google Wall. (Immediately Below)
