I was plesantly surprised this morning to see a comment sent to this page which had been idle for the past few months. It seems that with the new year the state felt the need to gift us with some pretty drastic changes to the ask test. Last year we were given the speculative and this year our new present is the explanatory prompt. I will do my best to gather new examples of this prompt and please comment with any that you have used in your classes.
I sent an e-mail to the state last week asking if 6-8 should prepare for speculative prompts. The answer was that though it does not state that they will be on there, they reserve the right to change this up to the day of the test. Also, had a workshop on the test last week at Rowan (which was wonderful if you are looking for one) and I will post some of the info up here after I get a chance to look it over.
