Performance Tasks

Students will create a function that will demonstrate mastery of limits and continuity in multiple representations.

Students will model the data with both a linear function and an exponential function and use it to predict the CO2 concentration in the year 2050 and also when the CO2 concentration will be above 500 parts per million. Students will discuss and document which model makes a better prediction and...

Compare and contrast how multiple types of media portrayed a current event, analyzing how words, or sounds, and still or moving images are used in each medium.  The literary essay should be between 3-5 pages (5-8 paragraphs).

Essential questions:

1. Why is it important to seek
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For this task, students will choose two colleges in different locations to analyze. Students will create and use trend lines and r2 values to analyze tuition and enrollment data from each college. They will use data from the past 5 years to fit functions to this data and make predictions for the...

In this task, students will study a variety of published memoirs (in print and online), write a memoir and deliver it as a dramatic reading to the class. Students should keep a notebook of pre-writing ideas from which they will choose a subject for their finished memoir. They will engage in a...

Students will write an argumentative essay answering the essential/guiding question: To what extent has our society achieved gender equality? Students will then present their arguments to their peers.