Performance Tasks

This task asks students to consider whether texts should be edited in order to remove potentially offensive content.

An examination of opinion pieces about the editing of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is followed by a comparison reading of two versions of a scene from...

Students select a topic about the impact of war on combatants or another group affected by war.

Students conduct independent historical research on their chosen topic in addition to selecting and reading two to three poems centered on the British experience in World War I.

Students...

In this task, students will work in teams and use their current knowledge about acids, bases, and neutralization reactions.

They will design and conduct an experiment to determine the pH of a fictional drug (Relieve IT) intended to relieve cold/flu symptoms and the pH of four unknown...

In this task, students develop and communicate a conceptual visual model of the conservation of energy for their scientific community.

To achieve this, students will:

• As a group, define what a model is and discuss its purpose.
• Analyze the energy flow through a
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For this project, students will first build and study a functioning, semi-closed ecosystem. They will model this ecosystem using diagrams. They will collect, organize, and interpret data about how the ecosystem changes over time. Lastly, they will develop a testable question, hypothesis, and...

In this task students write a literary analysis on Kindred around the theme of mental slavery.

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