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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

// **Goal : ** to make a movie trailer incorporating important scenes in your own story and uses figurative language to improve and embellish the story. //// I- Movie Rubric: Originality, attractiveness, content, audio, visual, performance. Presentation Rubric: Posture /eye contact, Listen to presenters, stays on topic, preparedness, speaks clearly, content // || • **Self assessment:** Students and I will conference on a rubric that they have created, and we will discuss whether it is adequate to use on their work. =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * Role:** You will be the star, film maker, producer, and script writer.
 * Audience**: The Warner Brothers panel of judges will be your audience, and the public if your trailer wins! (your peers and teachers will be your panel of judges when presenting the trailer to the class).
 * Situation:** No movies are being produced, so film makers are needed to create movie trailers for a contest to see who can produce the best next BIG hit.
 * Product/Presentation:** The product will be a movie trailer which grabs the audience, giving the audience just enough plot events to be intrigued without giving away the ending events.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * **•I- movie:** Students will create a movie trailer of a finished story that the student wrote.
 * •Glogster:** Students create a plot/ outline of the story they will be writing.
 * •Comic life:** Students will create a short story. This will be practice before doing their big narrative story. This gives students practice at using figurative language.
 * •Garage band:** Students will create a reflective audio journal analyzing the narrative readings I have them read as examples.
 * •Blog:** Students will have a blog page where they can post their homework assignments, comment on other peer blogs, and create a "star" page.
 * •Wikispace/ web site:** The website will allow the students to recap on what they have learned in what ever way the students feel will effectively teach anyone else what they have learned themselves. ||
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * •**Pre assessment:** The first draft of the students narrative story that they will write.
 * •Formative assessment:** I will have in-class activities that the students do and learn with new material. Then I will give an exit question on the new material, causing the students to reflect on what they just learned. ||

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** B2 Narrative Grade 6-8 Students write narrative that conveys complex ideas, observations, events, or reflections. ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Each narrative has a plot that conveys complex ideas. || • MLR: English language arts: B writing

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** ||
 * • writing || • outline ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * Calling all stars, filmers, and story writers! Due to a low volume of movies being produced recently, Warner Brothers studio is sending out a plea for help! Ever wanted to be a movie star? Well now is your chance! Warner Bros. is having a contest where anyone young and old, new or experienced can take part. In order to win the contest and be the next top star, you must create an original movie trailer from a story that you have written, with a plot line included. If it makes it through the tough round of judging, by a panel of 10 Warner Bros. judges, then you just may be our next star for all the world to see! Contest ends March 1st. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •I-Movie will be used to make the movie trailer. || • oral presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •attractiveness 10% •content 30% •audio 5% •visual 5% •performance 30% || • posture/ eye contact 10% •listens to others presentations 5% •stays on topic 20% •preparedness 20% •speaks clearly 15% •content 30% ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •originality 20%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**