Alternate Activity

In class today, we were given a quiz which was based on last night's reading. Create an alternate activity to use in place of a quiz that could properly facilitate effective literacy.

Last semester, I learned of many different activities that would tap into the minds of students and really get them to make meaning of an assigned reading. There is one specific activity that I believe would be an adequate substitute for giving a quiz. The activity would be performed as follows:
1. The teacher chooses specific quotes from throughout the reading and posts them on a large piece of poster board.
2. Then, the poster boards would be hung at various locations around the room.
3. Split the class up in to groups of about 4 or 5 and put each group at a different quote.
4. The students will then be given a couple of minutes (approximately 5 minutes) to read over the quote, discuss it with their group and write comments and/or questions around the quote.
5. After the allotted time is up, the groups will move to the next quote and do the same thing.
6. Once each group has visited all the quotes, and commented on them, they will return to their first quote to see what others have written, and what others thought.
7. Finally, the groups will come back to form one large group and each quote will be discussed by all of the students together to form one large, final discussion.