This chapter discussed grades and grading in depth. Every aspect of grading that must be considered was touched on. An example essay was provided and asked to be graded. Grades ranged from A-D. This showed that there are no universal set criteria for assessing a student's work. Another key point was that you need to know who your students are, and how they tend to perform on work. An eye opening point was that there are actually teachers who will give a student a D on an assignment rather than give them the F that they deserve.

This Chapter was very repeatative and similar to DI/UbD chapter 8. Many of teh suggestions were discussed were common sense things. Every teacher is going to establish thier own personal grading policy and there is not much that can be done to alter or influence that. A teacher's grading ideas are going to be based on what works for them. However we feel that every student should be treated and graded equally.