NJ ASK Language Arts
Grades 7 & 8
Testing Dates
April 28, 29, 30, May 1 2008
Regular Testing ( Language Arts Literacy Days 1 and 2, Mathematics and Science)
Rubrics - Key to Self Evaluation
| Sample Test | Language Arts from "Measuring Up" |
| GEPA | Test Manual from NJ DOE |
| Sample Scoring LAL | NJ Scoring Guide |
| Sample TEST from NJ DOE | GEPA LAL |
| Sample Test | Science from Measuring Up |
| Sample Test | Math from Measuring Up |
Sample Foundation Based Lessons
Model Lesson #1 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=281
Other Resources: http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/
Model Lesson #2 http://illuminations.nctm.org/java/geosolids/GeoSolids.html
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=122
Foundation Based Resources
National Endowment for the Humanities
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
International Reading Association - Read*Write*Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Council on Economic Education Econ Ed Link
The Kennedy Center - ArtsEdge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
National Geographic Expeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
•Teaching Materials
–Portable content in reproducible formats:
•maps, charts, tables, graphs, timelines, images, articles, archival documents, datasets, worksheets, activities, and handouts.
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas
• http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/bar_pie_data.asp?Chart Type=pie
•Online Presentations
–Information in an interactive format:
•online exhibits, guided tours, documentaries, slideshows, demonstrations, videos, and multimedia.
• Interactive Expedition http://www.fieldmuseum.org/expeditions/greg_expe dition/about.html
•Free Videos http://www.vpw.com/educational/
•Learning Activities
–Content designed to promote discovery, decision making, problem solving, and critical thought:
•multiple-choice games, puzzles, and quizzes, fill-in-the-blank forms and calculators, interactive exhibits, simulations, virtual realities, and scenarios that guide learners in quest of knowledge.
• http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/
• http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/Websites/AstrobiologyEduc ation/classact.htm
• http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/moduleover view.html
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•Internet Excursions
–Programs that link students to an ongoing event
•a space mission, a political campaign, an expedition to the Arctic or the bottom of the sea —
– giving them an opportunity to share in the adventure and share ideas with the adventurers themselves.
– http://www.earthwatch.org/education/
Internet Partnerships
Programs that link students to their peers in other schools and other countries:
cooperative research programs that gather data from science students around the world
collaborations organized by individual teachers.
Collaborative Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/collabprojs.html
Partner Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/partnerprojs.html
Real Time Data Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/realtimeproj.html
Collection Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/primarysourceproj.html
•Curriculum Enrichment –
Adapt resources to your needs
–Infuse new content into your current lesson plans and lectures
–Add an interactive map, an animation of molecular structure, an audioclip of a historic speech
• http://www.43a.de/hindenburg.htm
•Learning Experience
–Portfolio Projects
• let students construct their own view of a subject by gathering content from selected sites.
–PowerPoint, FrontPage, Hyper Studio,
–Fact-Finding Projects
•turn students into detectives scouring selected web sites for the answers to your questions.
–Trackstar – Free Authoring Tools
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/profdev/guide01.jsp
–Research Projects
• give students an in depth project.
•Journal-Keeping Projects –
–Send students to a series of web pages with questions designed to spark reflection on what they find.
Teaching Tool
Use the interactive nature of the Internet to engage students in inquiry-based learning
–Challenge Activities
•Have students develop evidence at selected sites to substantiate or refute a stated position.
–Discovery Activities
•Guide students through a series of online investigations in search of answers to a mystery or puzzling question.
Teaching Tool
–Decision-Making Activities
•Frame a controversy and guide students to sites where they can develop a position of their own.
http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com/
–Problem-Solving Activities –
•Create a scenario in which students evaluate competing points of view and formulate their own solutions.
I Search / Webquest Examples
Civil War
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hcarter/webquest.htm
Land Fill
http://www.snc.edu/educ/mse/courses/summerIT/students/benesh-zoeller/
Ancient Egypt
http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm
Math Creative
http://studenthome.nku.edu/%7Ewebquest/gabbard/
Forest
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm
Yellowstone
Wolves
http://www.powayschools.com/projects/mt&r/ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm
Identifying the Argument of an Essay: A Tutorial in Critical Reasoning.
one: An entertaining resource for finding words that rhyme
Interactive Tools and Lessons for "Persuasive Writing"
Interactive Tools
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Students will analyze the book then write a persuasive piece, on their view about the book |
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While "Playing" a game, students are made aware of their inherent knowledge of persuasive argument |
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Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches |
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This lesson encourages fourth- and fifth-grade students to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, giving, and evaluating mock campaign speeches. |
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Students learn about the voting process through read-alouds, partner and independent reading then share information through writing activities and discussions. |
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Students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Hamlet |
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Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But The Truth |
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After reading Avi’s Nothing But The Truth and examining the resources related to First Amendment students compose and present position statement and supporting evidence |
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Students will combine reading in the detective fiction genre with expository writing |
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion |
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Students design, build, and test inventions, data is recorded using commonly accepted scientific principles. Students write an appropriate speech for sharing their results |
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Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis |
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Students exercise their oral and written persuasion skills by playing a role in a mock trial of a literary character. |
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Students create persuasive essays that address environmental issues that are relevant to their lives. |
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Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature |
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Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to the quotations. |
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Students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books for the summer months. |
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Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters |
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Students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ. |
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Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads |
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Students draw conclusions from an analysis of propaganda techniques used in a piece of literature |
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Links to Other Persuasive Tools
Basic Principles of Persuasive Writing