JCMS reading performance

Ms. Dinah Cobb's seventh grade reading classes recently read the novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. As a performance task in response to reading the novel, students created postcards with a scene from the novel as the picture and wrote a small explanation about the scene on the other side. This activity is linked to the Georgia Performance Standard ELA7R1.c which states students will relate a literary work to information about its setting. The students used a rubric to self-evaluate their work on this task. Students participating, above, from left, are Willie Emory, Frank Thompson and Jasper Evans, right. (Photo contributed) From left, Jenkins County Middle School students ChyAnne Chance and Tamaria Patterson participate in Dinah Cobb's reading performance task class.