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...
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Mathematics
5
Elementary (K-5)
Students will create a fun safe playground based on safety guidelines that will demonstrate problem solving, communication and reasoning, and content skills related to volume, and area.
In this task, students will locate, interpret, and translate into modern English a scene from Othello that focuses on Iago’s power to convince. Students will need to first understand and then interpret the play and its rhetorical devices (logos, pathos, and ethos). They must be able to...
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Interdisciplinary
9, 10, 11, 12
This rubric assess students' communcation skills in three key areas: writing, oral presentation, and oral interaction. Individual sections can be used with specific performance tasks and/or in combination with disciplinary rubrics.
In this task, students assume the role of a representative of a country responsible for drafting a proposal to bring to the global nuclear power summit. Students will research the current context in their country and decide whether their country will support or oppose a proposal to bring nuclear...
After viewing, listening to, and studying commencement speeches by notable figures, students will write and present their own graduation speeches. The entire class will first listen to at least two commencement speeches to extrapolate their thematic, structural, and stylistic features and will...
