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8th Grade Writing Assessment
Testing Dates
Jan. 21, 2009, make-ups Jan. 22.
The writing assessment for grade eight consists of an evaluation of each student response to an assigned prompt. Students are assigned a topic from a prompt bank representing two genres: expository and persuasive. Students are allowed approximately 100 minutes to write their essays. The writing assessment must be administered in one day. A make-up is also given the following day.
Select genres of writing:
Persuasive
Expository
Analytic scoring with four new domains:
Ideas
Organization
Style
Conventions
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