Jill Wieser
Response to test questions
Standards 7 and 8
Activities: I would have students generate a question that they would like to find the
answer to. It would need to be a question that had a ‘why’, a longer explanation, or a a
variety of different answers. I would have the students do research on a variety of
resources. After gathering information concerning the topic of their questions, they
would need to evaluate their information and write on what the answer is to their question
and why it is that answer.
Standards 9 and 10
Activities: To have my students be more understanding of differences I would have them
read a piece of literature that have characters speaking in a different dialect than they do
in their daily lives, for example Huck Finn. We would discuss his character, what he
says, what our words for what he says would be, and how we feel about him because of
his dialect. Would our feelings change if he had a different dialect?