Student Work Samples
Below, you will see a Special Education student's progress through the RACE Writing Strategy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
BEFORE (October)
DURING (December)
AFTER (April)
After reading Lucille Fletcher's radio play, "Sorry, Wrong Number," students used inference and text evidence to make a declaration of guilt. They then created a wanted poster in which they incorporated the RACE writing strategy to prove their case with text evidence and explanation.
In an effort to address Oregon's CCSS 7. RL.9 (Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account...), students were tasked with reading both a non-fiction and fiction text describing 1911's fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. Students practiced close reading strategies to uncover the main causes of the fire and the ensuing tragedy. With a partner, students created and presented a workplace safety poster addressing the issues in an effort to reduce the death and destruction caused on that day.
As a culminating assignment for a Poetry Unit, students first analyzed Kobe Bryant's poem "Dear Basketball." After a process of brainstorming, planning, then writing, students created their own Passion Poems in which they utilized personification and other types of figurative language to talk TO their passion and explain its significance.
As a culminating assignment after completing S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," students were given choices about how they wanted to show their knowledge of the characters and the story. Students made movie posters, soundtracks, smartphones with apps that might belong to a specific character, or wrote a Chapter 13.
