Duplin County Schools Middle Grades Writing Plan Meeting September 9, 2009
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Duplin County SchoolsMiddle Grades Writing Plan Meeting
September 9, 2009
Phillip Middleton, Director of Middle GradesJoshua Hunter, Literacy Coach
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NCDPI Goals of the NC Writing Instruction &
Assessment System
To encourage student writing throughout the school year.
To encourage writing to be taught and assessed in all content areas.
To support schools in the use of writing assignments as part of a formative assessment process that informs instruction.
To support schools and teachers in gathering local benchmark and summative writing data.
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NCDPI Goals of the NC Writing Instruction & Assessment System
To encourage student writing throughout the school year.
To encourage writing to be taught and assessed in all content areas.
To support schools in the use of writing assignments as part of a formative assessment process that informs instruction.
To support schools and teachers in gathering local benchmark and summative writing data.
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Review of 6th Grade Writing PlanExpressive writing is the writing focus for
sixth graders.
Expressive
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Review of 6th Grade Writing PlanExpressive writing is the writing focus for
sixth graders.
Expressive
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Writing Performance Expectations for Grade SixOne Content-Specific Writing Sample
One On-Demand Writing Sample
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Notable ChangesThere are no notable changes in scoring and
documentation from the 08-09 writing plan.
The completion date is April 30, 2010.
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Review of 7th Grade Writing PlanArgumentative writing is the writing focus
for seventh graders.
Argumentative
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Writing Performance Expectations for Grade Seven
Two Content-Specific Writing Samples
Two On-Demand Writing Samples
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October 31, 2009 •Completion of first on-demand
December 13, 2009 •Completion of first content-specific
February 26, 2010 •Completion of second content-specific
April 30, 2010 •Completion of second on-demand
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Notations/ChangesStudents may use the full features of word
processing systems as they complete content-specific and on-demand writings.
Teachers may use the DPI sample prompts as exemplars or create their own prompts for the completion of the content-specific writing requirements.
There are no notable changes in storage or documentation.
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Review of 8th Grade Writing PlanInformational writing is the writing focus for
eighth graders.
Informational
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Writing Performance Expectations for Grade EightOne Content-Specific Writing Sample
One On-Demand Writing Sample
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Content Specific Writing SampleOne Research Project in Written and
Presentational Form as a Content-Specific Writing Sample
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Research Guide
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ChangesThere are no notable changes in scoring or
documentation.
Sixth grade teachers pass flash drives to seventh grade teachers.
Seventh grade teachers pass flash drives to eighth grade teachers.
Eighth grade teachers pass flash drives to Mr. Middleton.
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