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...
Students will imagine themselves as journalists writing about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, making connections to wars in the past and Hemingway’s literature.
Using direct quotations from Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and “...
The essential question that this task poses to students is: How can I become a well-informed, cost-conscious consumer of goods and services using my mathematical skills?
In this task, students have the opportunity to choose a good or service that they would like to purchase.
Based on their individual research conducted to answer the essential question: “Should stem cell research continue,” students will take a position regarding stem cell research. Students will have a choice in the product they create to educate the public on stem cell research, to communicate...
This task requires students to analyze the development of a theme by analyzing the author’s use of a color’s symbolic meaning(s). Students present their analysis through an essay that is drafted and peer reviewed on email and submitted via email as an attachment.
In this task students will answer the following essential question: How can you make Romeo and Juliet’s theme and characters relevant to a modern audience? After reading Romeo and Juliet and studying various performances, the students will select a key scene to transpose for a...
For this performance task, students will analyze how an author uses imagery and symbolism to reveal a theme in a novel.
Taking the role of graphic artists working for the publisher of the novel, they will create a visual that highlights that theme and the imagery/symbolism from the novel...
This tools leads teacher teams through the process of calibrating scoring of student work with a lens ot exploring the instructional implications of the prompt/task, student work, and rubric. The process takes approximately one hour to complete.
