Friday

Friday students took the Performance Literacy Task for social studies. This hour long literacy task assesses student ability to read a collection of primary source documents, some text and some images, and write an essay arguing a point of view backed by the documents of choice along with outside (the test) knowledge on the subject. The purpose is to not only assess students current ability but to contribute to preparing students for like assessments in the near future as standardized testing evolves. The assessment will be counted for a grade for the fourth quarter. There really is not a way to prepare ahead of time for this assessment.