Unit 2: Culminating Tasks

Sample Performance-based/Standards-based Task(s): from GADOE Teacher Guidance Document 

ELAGSE9-10RL3 Making predictions about how characters will proceed or how they will react is one way to assess whether students have accurately synthesized the details provided by the author in constructing a character. At an appropriate point during the rising action of a narrative, students in teams will create a set of predictions about a character or multiple characters (instructor may provide a template to focus predictions or allow students to decide). Each prediction must be supported by providing supporting evidence for the prediction with several annotations from the text (for
example: “pg. 304, David gets a speeding ticket” may support a prediction that David’s dangerous driving will eventually result in a tragic accident). Predictions may be followed in the manner of a football pool to eventually determine a winning team.

ELAGSE9-10RI3 After studying and analyzing several successful advertising campaigns, have students in small groups design an imaginary product to market. Students will create a one-minute video advertisement that will introduce their product and develop an audience awareness of its benefits, usefulness, or desirability. Students may use valid logic as well as logical fallacies such as bandwagon or glamour to appeal to their audience. Students will complete a brief assessment of each ad, providing the name and purpose of the product, its target audience, and each piece of evidence or support provided to prove the advertiser’s claim (whether valid or not). After the initial summaries, students will choose one product that they believe had the strongest advertising appeal and will write a brief analysis detailing the strategies used to introduce and develop the appeal of the product and why they were effective.

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