S2+Barton+Lindsey

=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You are a lawyer defending a family who has encountered suffering due to the loss of their land during the Great Depression. You and your team are working to obtain retribution from the bankers and land owners who forced the family off their land. Audience: Your classmates are the jury and your teacher is the judge. In order to gain the retribution the family deserves, you must present a compelling argument. Situation: The information is to be presented before the jury in a courtroom. Product/Presentation: You will use Google Earth as a means of collecting information, and each location found on Google Earth will be supported through quotes and statements by family members, as well as photos and an explanation of each locations relevance. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Product: Bookmarked location, importance of setting, relevance, individual explanation, visual emphasis, and organization. Presentation: stays in character, professionalism, preparedness, convincing, sympathetic, and speaks clearly. || • iMovie: students will break into three groups then direct and create a fifteen minute iMovie to show crucial moments within the text. • Scrapbook: students will use Comic Life to put together a digital scrapbook filled with quotes, photos, and analysis relating to the text. Emphasize the mood of the characters as they travel west and the way their dignity is tested. || • Peer discussions: at the end of work sessions, students will meet with a partner and offer support and suggestions to one another. • Interview: students will meet with me and discuss the progress of their work. In reflecting upon journals and group discussions, students will have a better concept of where they need assistance. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: You are on a team of lawyers working to defend a family forced off of their land during the depression. In order to collect evidence that the family deserves retribution, use Google Earth to pinpoint the multiple locations where the family has suffered injustices. After marking the locations, formulate an argument to present to the court explaining the significance of each location and how it has affected the family members. Analyze textual evidence and include quotes and statements from family members, as well as photos showing the damage that has been done to the family.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • Brochure: students will create a brochure advertising California as a land of promise, filled with jobs for migrant families. Assess the tone when creating the brochure to determine whether the families were being misled.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • Reflection journals: students will keep both a written journal as well as a podcast explaining the process used and the progress made. In doing this, students will recognize areas that need attention as well as successful study areas.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** A. Reading A2. Literary Texts ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * • Desperation hinders the family's dignity as they are forced to make daily life or death choices. || • MLR Language Arts

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * Big Idea || Big Idea ||
 * • Setting || • Literary Devices ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * You are on a team of lawyers working to defend a family forced off of their land during the depression. In order to collect evidence that the family deserves retribution, use Google Earth to pinpoint the multiple locations where the family has suffered injustices. After marking the locations, formulate an argument to present to the court explaining the significance of each location and how it has affected the family members. Analyze textual evidence and include quotes and statements from family members, as well as photos showing the damage that has been done to the family. You are a lawyer defending a family who has encountered suffering due to the loss of their land during the Great Depression. You and your team are working to obtain retribution from the bankers and land owners who forced the family off their land. Since classmates are acting as the jury, all of the information should be presented in a manner which conveys a compelling argument to the court. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * • Google Earth || • Presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Importance of Setting 20% • Relevance 15% • Individual Explanation 15% • Visual Emphasis 15% • Organization 10% || • Stays in Character 25% • Professionalism 20% • Preparedness 20% • Convincing 20% • Sympathetic 10% • Speaks clearly 5% ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • Bookmarked location 25%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**