Unit 4: Culminating Tasks

Sample Performance-based/Standards-based Task(s) from GADOE Teacher Guidance Document 
ELAGSE9-10RL4: Students will examine the impact of figurative language on the tone of a text by comparing and contrasting a selection from the current extended text under study as originally written and with figurative and connotative language removed. Access an approximately 1000-word selection from a text digitally (so that it can be edited by the students). Step one of the process will be for students to identify each instance of figurative language or particularly connotative diction (they may work individually or in teams). The second step of the process is for students to edit the piece so that it maintains grammatical integrity with the figurative and connotative language removed. Finally, students will write a brief analysis (one page or less) citing specific ways in which the tone of the text is impacted by the changes.

ELAGSE9-10RI4: Place students in pairs and provide them with samples of difficult text (these may include legal agreements, technical manuals, historic documents, or speeches). Use several texts for the whole class so that several pairs have identical texts. Allow students to attempt to make meaning of the text through repeated attentive readings, both quietly and aloud, through dictionaries or other resource documents, through group discussion, and through context (do not allow students to use the internet for this activity). Together, students will produce a second document that is a readerfriendly paraphrase of the original. Place pairs together with other students who had the same original document so that they can compare their paraphrased interpretations and discuss areas of convergence/divergence in their translations. Allow the final “teams” to produce one document per group that represents their very best modified whole-group interpretation of the original document. These may be compared between classes.

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