Assessment Plan Units/Strands and Big Ideas/Essential Skills Unit: This I Believe (Diagnostic Unit) Strands: Oral with diagnostic focus on Reading, Writing, Media Big Ideas/Essential Skills: How do you effectively explain your beliefs and share them with others? • Listening to Understand • Speaking to Communicate • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Unit: Relationships and Identity (Literature Circles and Media) Strands: Reading and Media Big Ideas/Essential Skills: How do the choices we make affect us and those around us? What are the connections between literature and popular culture? • Reading for Meaning • Understanding Media Texts • Listening to Understand • Understanding Form and Style • Reading With Fluency • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Unit: Hot Topics (Research Report and Nonfiction) Writing includes mini unit on writing for the work world Big Ideas/Essential Skills: What is our relationship to the important issues in our world today? • Developing and Organizing Content • Using Knowledge of Form and Style • Applying Knowledge of Conventions • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies • Understanding Media Texts • Understanding Media Forms, Conventions and Techniques • Creating Media Texts
Unit: Drama Reading (with emphasis on Literature Studies) Writing Big Ideas/Essential Skills: Are there issues that we face today that are universal? • Reading for Meaning • Understanding Form and Style • Reading with Fluency • Using Knowledge of Form and Style • Speaking to Communicate • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Unit: Portfolio Oral, Reading, Writing, Media
Title/description: Writing in Role, Mock Trial, Test
Title/description: Portfolio and presentation
Big Ideas/Essential Skills: • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies (from all four strands This unit will be the culminating task assessing students mastery of the Oral Communication, Writing, and Media Strands Reading will be assessed on the final exam.
Culminating Tasks Title/description: This I Believe Oral Essay
Title/description: Book Club Portfolio
Title/description: Research Report, PSA, and business letter
O 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1
R 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 2.1, 2.2, 2.3,; 3.2, 4.1 M 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
W1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1 M2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
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