Assessment In school, how does your school teacher evaluate your performance (i.e., what is your final grade based upon)? Usually, it's a combination of in-class discussion/participation, papers/essays, and free-response homework assignments. Your teacher will consider how much effort you put into the assignment and will usually add bonus points for creative or thoughtful interpretations of the text (e.g., the real antagonist in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Requiem for a Dream is hope, [...]