Unit 1: Culminating Tasks

Sample Performance-based/Standards-based Task(s) form GADOE Teacher Guidance Document 
ELAGSE9-10RI2: Provide students with a selection of scientific journal articles and a template for assessing the elements and qualities of the texts. Students should be required to note the title, subtitle if any, whether the article has one or multiple authors, whether it is prefaced with an abstract, which manuscript style it uses, and the basic structure of the information presented (chronological, comparison, experiment and results, etc.). After noting the relevant facts about the text, students will attempt to identify the main idea of the text and provide 3-5 specific items from the text that served to identify and develop that idea. Students will compare and discuss their results.

ELAGSE9-10RL2:The “theme” of a text is usually a universal or archetypal idea or truism that is expressed through the microcosm of a story. As such, theme is identified through an aggregate of actions, words, symbols, and events in a tale and lends itself to multimodal expression such as collage, film, or digital representation. Students working in small groups will construct a multimodal project which may include photos, film clips, drawings, songs, etc. to express the theme of a text. Each item in the collage must be annotated with a specific text reference to explain its role in contributing to the overall theme of the text. Students write a reflection on how the completion of the project helps them to better understand the theme of the story.

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