Assessment

This page has information about assessment and grading for English III and AP Literature.

In the lesson plans, practice, formative assessments, and summative assessments are differentiated by text style: 

• Practice (in italics) is ungraded

  • Journal Writing: unstructured creative and/or reflective writing that allows students to prewrite, exploring ideas and experimenting with techniques that they may want to incorporate in a longer written work.

  • Reflection: periodically, students are asked to reflect on their experience in class, the work they are doing, and what/how they are learning and growing as readers, writers and professionals.

  • Sharing & Feedback: students share excerpts from their work and give one another verbal and/or written feedback on specific criteria, as well as general observations, thoughts and questions

  • Individual Conferences: students meet with the teacher periodically to discuss their writing or their research

  • Creative Writing: poetry, fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction inspired by issues and techniques explored in class and/or independently

  • Other Practice / Tasks

• Formative Assessments (in bold) are graded via success criteria, item points or rubric

  • Annotations / Notes: the primary way students “interact” with a text. Annotations and/or notes should include observations, details that stand out, paraphrasing, thoughts, wonderings, connections, questions, and ideas.

  • Online Discussion Board: students engage in intellectual and collegial conversations about a topic or text while also using appropriate literary terminology and grammatical conventions. The online discussion boards give students an opportunity to engage in intellectual conversation and as members of a literary community.

  • Group Discussion Notes: students discuss a shared text in small groups or as a whole class; notes, peer/self evaluation and reflection are completed and submitted as a group or individually

  • Group Presentation: students collaborate in groups to prepare and present on a topic and/or text

  • Peer Feedback: students provide written feedback to peers in the form of annotations and/or feedback letters 

  • Infographic: students present their ideas and understanding of a particular topic in a graphic format

  • Quiz: multiple choice and/or short answer

  • Timed writing (in-class essay, short answer questions): students write an essay or full-paragraph in response a text-based prompt

  • AP Classroom Quiz / Assignment

  • Other Assignment

• Summative Assessments (in red bold) are major projects, written works or exams, graded via success criteria, item points or rubric

  • Draft or revised/edited creative work w/ commentary (writing, photo essay, painting/drawing, song, film):  including 4-5 paragraphs of author’s commentary discussing the skills, techniques and process used in creating the piece, as well as researched information relating to ideas and/or themes explored in the piece

  • Draft or revised/edited analytical text: literary analysis, literary criticism, rhetorical analysis

  • Audio Recording / Podcast: conversation or presentation

  • Video Recording / Film: conversation or presentation

  • Portfolio Review & Reflection: organizing portfolio & writing a reflection essay or slideshow

  • Publication in Literary Magazine: preparing and submitting a creative or analytical work for publication in the class literary magazine

  • Other Major Project or Exam