Unit 4: Culminating Task

Culminating Task Resource 1

Download PDF Version of Narrative Writing Task

Students can complete the PDF version or complete the task using the assignment in canvas. 

 

Culminating Task Resource 2

Tasks from the GADOE Teacher Guidance Document 

ELAGSE5RI9: Sample Performance-based/Standards-based Task(s):
Choose a topic in the 5th grade social studies curriculum. Have students conduct an analysis of comparable excerpts from various texts, including primary and secondary source documents, expressing differing points of view. Try to include a broad variety of view points, including gender, social class, country of origin, etc. Advise students to compare historical and modern texts for perspective as well. Students should write a response that includes not only the facts as seen through different eyes, but also the reasons why the student believes those facts were perceived differently by different parties or purposefully misconstrued.

ELAGSE5RL9: Sample Performance-based/Standards-based Task(s):
Choose a relevant topic or event about which your students could write a narrative (field day, a school celebration, a field trip, student choice). Alternatively, you could stage an event (for example, have someone come into the room, do 3 jumping jacks, blow a whistle, recite a poem, and leave). After the event, ask students to write a descriptive narrative about what they saw or experienced. Have several students share their accounts aloud, noting main points on chart paper. Engage students in a discussion about the differences in style (and even the differences in the facts) of each narrative. How do they think the personality of each writer influenced their perception of events? Did their seat in the class or vantage point influence their perception? What other factors can we consider in how a writer crafts his approach to a theme or topic?