Class Quiz Game
Sometimes ---just for fun and for spirit building in the classroom---I'll give an oral check test over the story they've read for the day. Each row has to confer and elect one person to answer a question on behalf of that row and for the entire class! The entire class is going to be awarded the same grade----so there's lots of cheering and gasping and groaning. Usually the students will have chosen their testerperson carefully and the class comes out with an A. And usually I can---I admit it---manipulate the difficulty of the test question being given. (I count only a few points for such quizzes ; kids never ask---they just have fun during the process of the quiz)----and of course I play it to the hilt: "Okay, Ross, the class has got 60% for far. It's your turn. You can turn that 60% to an 80%" And then when Ross answers correctly, everyone is delighted! Then I say, "Okay, Raissa...it's all on your shoulders: you can bring these people home, girl! You can sock an A in the grade book if you answer this next question right." The whole activity takes 5-7 minutes and besides builing class spirit, students are aware that some day each of them may be asked to answer a question for their row---perhaps sometime that will be enough motivation to read the homework. Especially because sometimes---I forgot to mention this---I will announce the row by row quiz but claim for myself the right to choose the testerpeople. ( I choose them carefully. If Bob isn't a great reader, but I know he probably read this story because he loves stories about dogs, I will choose Bob from his row. )
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