Performance Tasks

Students will conduct research on the existentialist movement in literature. Students will read Franz Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis" and determine if Kafka’s work reflects existential ideas. 

Students reconstruct the colonial argument for dissolving ties to Great Britain. Main steps of the learning process include:

• Close reading of the first two paragraphs of the Declaration, with primary attention to the claim about when revolution is justified.
• Task engagement
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Based on the true story of Kyle McDonald, a Canadian blogger who bartered his way from a red paper clip to a house in a series of online trades, students will be given one red paper clip to make trades for this project – either online or in person. They will have two weeks to make as many trades...

Second grade students will learn to compare characters in a story by reading text and examining illustrations to determine how each character responds to events in the story. Students will also suggest reasons for the differences in each character's response based on what they have learned about...

In this task, students will explore the ways in which humans seek to restore balance within an ecosystem after a disturbance disrupts the pre-existing balance of a population or populations of species endemic to the habitat.

Students will research a solution that was used/is going to be...

Students will create a photographic essay that argues for their view of the American Dream today. They will compare and/or contrast their view of the American Dream with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s portrayal of the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby. Students will also analyze a...