70% Informational Text
30% Literary Text
75% Literary Text
25% Informational Text
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Unit 6: Literary Analysis Part A: Aren't You
the Shrewd One?
Unit 7: Literary Analysis Part B: Don't Know
Much About History
Unit 8: Research Writing: Past - Forward to
the Future
Unit 9: Community Service: Save the Future
Unit 10: Portfolio Presentation: The Real
World
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Taming of the Shrew – Wm. Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare – Charles and Mary Lamb
Writers Notebook
Annotation of Text
Rewriting the play into an 8-minute scene
Comparing text and media versions
Class discussion, teacher observation
Evaluated with Production Rubric
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PBL format
Foundational works of American literature from
18th, 19th, and early 20th century
Example: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Informational text on cruelty and injustice
Create a book trailer and present it
Write a literary analysis
Create a multimedia presentation focusing on
literature from a particular historical period
Evaluated with rubrics for Presentation,
Analytical Essay, Appropriateness of Sources,
and Collaboration
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PBL Format
Read a variety of US historical documents (17th
– 21st centuries)
Example: Once and Future King by T.H.White
Write an abstract for a document from each
century
Develop a media presentation on a document
View a variety of speeches
Evaluated by rubrics for Presentation, Abstract,
Collaboration and Discussion
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Research school or community projects
Write a proposal for a project
Create a media presentation on the project
Examples: Story of the Hour by Kate Chopin
and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Work added to the Senior Portfolio
Evaluated with rubrics for Presentation,
Collaboration, Informational Writing,
Appropriateness of Sources and PowerPoint
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Examples: The Machine That Won the War by Isaac
Asimov, Mythology by Edith Hamilton and The
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kinsolver
Assemble a Portfolio of work from the English 12
CR course, writing a reflection for each artifact
chosen
Participate in an interview using their Portfolio as
evidence of their qualifications for employment or
college entry
Evaluated with rubrics for Argumentative
Writing, Presentation and Speaking
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They are suggestions.
Other suggestions found in Appendix B of the
Common Core State Standards found on Teach
21 at
http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/documents/
Appendix_B.pdf
WVDE has no mandated list of readings
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Policy 2510 requires students enrolled in
English 12 CR Course to take an end-ofcourse assessment.
The end-of-course assessment will align with
the WV HEPC Series 21 Freshman Readiness
Assessment and Placement Standards.
Policy 2510 does not allow for exemptions or
exclusions to testing.
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The assessment
selected for the
end-of-course
assessment for
English 12 CR is the
ACT COMPASS
Writing Skills Test.
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Opportunity for seniors to demonstrate
college readiness in English
Opportunity for more students to be
college/career ready
Less remediation at post-secondary
Opportunity for colleges and universities to
place students into credit-bearing English
courses without additional testing
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Computer-adaptive
Students may not “go back” and change answers
 Number of questions each student receives
varies based on performance
 Students receive different tests
 Some students may take longer than others
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Multiple-choice questions
Untimed
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Administered online at the school
Provides students with immediate results
Informs students of readiness for a creditbearing college course in English
Is NOT to be used for a grade or credit for the
course
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Students who answer all questions
incorrectly or correctly could receive as few
as eight questions.
On average, students will need 30-60
minutes to finish the test.
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Student reports are printed at school and available
after testing.
 (Note: No reports come from the WVDE Office of
Assessment and Accountability.)
The results will be uploaded to the student records in
WVEIS, but this does not happen automatically or
immediately.
Schools will need to write results on student
transcripts or manually enter scores in WVEIS so
students will have them on official transcripts for
college placement.
 Colleges will not accept printed student reports
because they are not official documents.
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School/county determines testing window
Make-ups scheduled within the testing
window
Testing window for students in Transition
Mathematics for Seniors may be different
from testing window for students in English
12 CR Course
December 3, 2012-January 11, 2013
(for courses ending at the end of first semester)
April 29-May 24, 2013
(for courses ending at the end of the school year)
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Not a college admissions test
 COMPASS will not replace ACT or SAT as
an admissions exam
If the student has achieved the required ACT
or SAT score for admission to a baccalaureate
program, the COMPASS® score will not be
used. The ACT or SAT score will take
precedence over the COMPASS® score.
• Measures same content as the ACT English
test
• Presents one or more passages, each
containing several errors
• Clicking on that section of passage brings
up alternative segments of text
• Student selects appropriate segment to
insert automatically into the text
• Basic knowledge and skills in usage and
mechanics
 Punctuation
 Basic grammar
 Usage
 Sentence structure
• Rhetorical skills
 Writing strategies
 Organization
 Style
• To see the messages students see before and
after taking the COMPASS Writing Skills Test, visit
the COMPASS File Cabinet on the Office of
Assessment and Accountability website at
https://sites.google.com/a/wvde.k12.wv.us/oaar
-file-cabinet/compass
• Scroll down to the English 12 CR folder.
• Additional information also is available here.
English
(Writing Skills)
English
(Writing Skills)
•Score at or
above 71*
*Applies
to all West Virginia colleges
and universities
 Online Practice Tests
• http://www.gsc.edu/academics/acadenrich/ls/CPE/Pages/English.aspx
 COMPASS® Information on Office of Assessment and
Accountability Website
• http://wvde.state.wv.us/oaa/COMPASS/index.html
 Things to Know About COMPASS®
• http://www.act.org/compass/student/index.html
 Sample Test Questions for Writing Skills
• http://www.act.org/compass/sample/writing.html
 Sample Essay: Writing Skills Placement
• http://www.act.org/compass/sample/write-s.html
 ACT Guide for COMPASS® Writing Skills Test
• https://secure.gacollege411.org/images/ga/pdfs/TestPrep/Writing_Skills.pdf
Questions about ACT COMPASS
Contact:
Dr. Vaughn Rhudy
vrhudy@access.k12.wv.us
Or
Dr. Beth Cipoletti
dcipolet@access.k12.wv.us
English 12 CR is not intended to be “remedial.”
It is, in fact, very rigorous. It is important that
students be placed in the course using the
placement guide provided. Students meeting these
guidelines are the only students who should be
placed in this course. Guidance counselors, parents
and students need to understand the placement
process. Only students opting to take a higher-level
course, such as AP, are exempt from the course.
“There is strong evidence that free
voluntary reading is effective in
developing literacy. Those who read
more read better, write better, spell
better, and develop better
grammatical competence and larger
vocabularies.”
“The analyses [between direct
reading and reading growth]
suggest that an increase of five
minutes daily silent reading would
be predicted to produce an
additional month’s growth on a
standardized reading achievement
test.
Contact Denise Husson
dhusson@access.k12.wv.us
or
Denise White
awhite@access.k12.wv.us