analysis

This is a one-text, one-week module that aims to take students through the process of looking at a character's development over time. It is focused on the third Common Core Reading Standard for Literature (RL3), which expects 6th grade students to "describe how a particular story's or drama's...

In this module second grade students will identify the Preamble of the United States Constitution as the introductory statement of the Constitution. Students will define the key words from the Preamble, and understand that the founders created the Constitution to guide the United States...

Students will create an accurate graph of a real life scenario, as well as a model for how the graph will change as a real life variable is increased or decreased. The final product will include the 15-second video, the graph, and a detailed explanation of that graph.

During this classroom performance assessment, students will have an opportunity to think carefully about the idea of a “hero’s journey.” They will be asked to think and write about the possibility and the nature of heroism in the contemporary world as they focus on a selection of short fiction...

In order to address the essential question “How do writers convey/communicate a person’s experience with a disability through creative writing?” students will:

• Compose a multi genre creative writing collection of their choice that includes at least 3-4 pieces (memoir, short story,
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This resource is a learning progression for high level thinking, with a focus on analysis, use of claims and evidence, reasoning, question posing, and attention to multiple perspectives. It was designed by Learner‐Centered Initiatives, to assist teachers in recognizing and assessing the nature...

This common analytic rubric assesses students' ability to engage in literary analysis and develop and support arguments related to that analysis.

Building from a prior written assignment, students will develop an oral presentation making the arguments conveyed in the written work.

This common oral communication task can be used at any point throughout the year after at least one written work assignment has been completed. Students...

Students give a persuasive lecture to peers on how a complex poem creates a unique, specific, and identifiable experience for the reader. 

This task provides students with an opportunity to perform guided scientific inquiry.

Students will work with a partner or group to design and conduct an experiment to determine if a detergent containing enzymes is more effective than a detergent that does not contain enzymes in removing...

Students will use their study and knowledge of a particular work of literary merit to design and create a piece of art and an artistic statement. The art and statement will demonstrate the connection between a thematic idea in the work and the literary elements that contribute to it (e.g.,...

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...

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. 

After...

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...