Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) Performance Design Team
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English / Language Arts
9, 10
High (9-12)
For this task, each student plays the role of an intern at a public radio station who has been asked to write a story for one of their podcast shows. This could be someone else’s story (students would interview them and then write the story) or a personal story. The story could be humorous or...
Inquiry By Design, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Dennie Wolf
John McMillan
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English / Language Arts
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In this task students read and discuss core texts about personal values from literature, examine how this tradition continues in contemporary essays and in radio broadcasts and filmed interviews, and analyze the techniques an author or speaker uses to develop and support his or her personal...
In this task, students will answer the following essential question: How do writers communicate ideas through literature?
Students will begin by reading an America novel and focusing on the elements of the text — characters, ideas, symbols, etc.— they find most interesting....
In this task, the students mathematically model changes in the bee colony numbers from the United States and from two individual states, California and South Dakota.
Students then use their constructed mathematical models to describe factors affecting the bee colony populations. The...
Students use Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" and Anne Frank’s "The Diary of a Young Girl" to write a literary essay that compares and contrasts the characters Esperanza and Anne Frank.
The paper should answer at least one of the following questions, and cite evidence from the...
The purpose of this module is to prepare Pre-AP English students for AP Language and Composition by teaching them the basics of analyzing the elements of rhetoric that authors use to make their writing more effective.
Students will become familiar with basic rhetorical devices. They will...
