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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

• iMovie: Students will focus on one vocabulary word and make it a visual representation explaining how it effects a specific culture. • Podcast: Students will pick one type of media used in class and make a podcast with a partner assessing its effectiveness in learning cultural content. Then follow other two podcasts. • ComicLife: Students will work in small groups to create a comic explaining the similarities between cultural literature sources. • Wikispace: Students will make a collection of resources that influence their thoughts on the culture on a shared wikispace. • Glogster: Students will use resources from the class wikispace and make a Glog explaining what they personally learned about culture using the task descriptor instructions. || • Checking for Understanding: Exit ticket, poll, fist to five, journals, fill in your thoughts, circle, triangle, square. •Timely Feedback: Self: After viewing other blogs, comment on any posts that mention things you didn't personally recognize. Peer: After presenting ComicLife, peers will fill out anonymous rubrics with positive specific feedback. Teacher: After watching iMovie teacher fills out a quick comment card about how the presentation went overall. ||
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** The goal is to change other people's perspectives on a specific culture.
 * Role:** Your job is to present a Glogster to AAA's travel agency for a new visual resource for their website.
 * Audience:** You need to convince AAA you have the most native view of the culture you are placed in.
 * Situation:** The context you find yourself in is presenting your Glogster as an interactive example your perspective on your chosen culture to AAA.
 * Product/Presentation:** You will create a Glogster or an interactive poster to convince AAA of your understanding of your chosen culture.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Product:** Requirements 20%, Sources 20%, Organization 10%, Originality 10%, Appearance 10%, Content 20%.
 * Presentation:** Content 25%, Preparedness 20%, Vocabulary Usage 10%, Engagement 15%, Presentation Skills 10%, Comfort with Technology 20%. ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * • Blog: Students will write a blog on what culture is to them and will then comment on two posts that differ in content.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • Pre-assessment: Students will fill out two KWL charts on culture and cultural literature and will decide on their similarities.

=Assessment Task Blue Print=

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** 2) Different media sources provide a concrete base of understanding what culture is. || •English Content Area: Reading Grade Level: 11-12 Domain: Informational Text Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas //Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media formats as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem// ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (CCSS)** ||
 * • 1) Multiple sources give a better understanding of culture as a whole.

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 Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * • Cultural Literature || • Technology Integration ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * While sleeping one night, after reading a piece of cultural literature, (//A Thousand Splendid Suns//, //Love Medicine,// or //Woman Hollering Creek//), you dream that you are now part of the modern culture from the piece you fell asleep to. It is soon after you realize that you are in this setting and you also realize you aren’t actually asleep. AAA Northern New England, a travel agency from Augusta, Maine, has placed you here to fully immerse yourself into the culture around you, convincing people that you are a native. While all of this is happening you should be collecting information on a wikispace, working to define this culture, and how it is similar and different to other cultures. Defining culture is difficult to do, so using specific examples is required to get a clear picture. You will then present this information to AAA Northern New England, who is seeking information about how to further prepare their clients for visiting other cultures, including your own. In order to present this information you will gather resources from online sources, like the wikispace you’ve been creating, and turn the information into a Glog. Your goal is to not only convince the natives that you are one of them, but also to convince AAA that you have the best understanding of your culture. Your presentation will be put up against a variety of others, all competing to have their Glog posted on AAA’s website in the travel portion. Not only will this presentation benefit the clients of AAA, but it will also help natives of your culture, so that tourists are more conscious of your customs. Good luck! ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Sources 20% • Organization 10% • Originality 10% • Appearance 10% • Content 20% || • Content 25% • Preparedness 20% • Vocabulary Usage 10% • Engagement 15% • Presentation Skills 10% • Comfort with Technology 20% ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * • Requirements 30%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**