The "Revising and Editing" portion of the HSPA Language Arts test uses a sample student essay to assess student critical analysis and writing skills. 

For this assignment, you must complete two specific tasks related to preparing your students for the "Revising/Editing" portion of the HSPA:

• Identify and summarize strategies for editing and revising both content and mechanics in a guide or checklist for your students- the guide should be based on the Revise/edit rubric

• Create two practice essays to be revised/edited by your students to practice applying the strategies you identified

The following checklist will be used to score this Cluster 3 assignment:

1. The essays created/selected are persuasive essays.

2. The essays are ones which will appeal to a wide range of high school students.

3. Practice prompt directions are clearly worded.

4. The directions include a scoring rubric based on the HSPA holistic scoring rubric.

5. Your prompt includes references to your strategies to be used to facilitate the creative writing process.

6. A sample response to each prompt is included that adheres to a "high" score of 3 or 4 on the Revise/edit scoring rubric.