Farrah Hersh Q's 7/26

In the Reiff piece, creativity and the strength and interest of the student was a common theme at least to me. In your classroom, will you allow a student to be more creative throughout the semester rather than perhaps on the last project? I'm thinking how we were able to design our literacy narrative any way we wanted.

When talking about portfolio assessments, Yancey states that a possibility would be a group of teachers rating together. Somehow this doesn't seem right to me. As a teacher you've watched a student grow in the classroom, how would other teachers know the effort was put into every assignment and project if they weren't there for the entire semester? I will admit it is different if it's just one paper, but an entire semester's worth is something else entirely.