Student Response to Henry Slesar’s “Examination Day”
Teachable Moments After reading "Flowers for Algernon," my students took a unit test comprised of text-dependent multiple-choice questions and a standardized writing task. Independently, while my students showed progress, many of them failed in including everything necessary for a complete student response. Therefore during the month of October, I decided to include some suspenseful stories and incorporate more writing. The first story of the month was Henry Slesar's "Examination Day." Overall, the students enjoyed the story even though they couldn't understand how something like that could really happen. Writing Task You have read “Examination Day” a short story about a…