HUNTERDON CENTRAL REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

Mary Woods
“For AP English Language and Composition, the students, during the first week, reflected on their writing
skills. They wrote a paper on good writing in which they were supposed to try to demonstrate such skill; they
identified several goals to work on, as well as means to achieve them; they researched some of their issues; they
conferenced with me to help revise and reset these goals; they worked individually or in small groups on their
goals; and they were asked to apply this goal work to assignments and activities occurring within a week of the
focused goal work. Additionally, I had the students keep folders in class for work like multiple choice practice
and smaller writing assignments by which they could track their performance. They had several opportunities
to revisit their performance on the midterm prior to taking the final exam, on order to best prepare. For the
good writing essay, the first for the course, all of their process was posted on Moodle in a single strand, so they
could see the improvement as a sort of electronic portfolio. This also allowed them to utilize the feedback of
peers.”
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