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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Digital Product Rubric: Project Effort (10%), Illustrations (20%), Creativity (15%), Neatness (25%), Attractiveness (20%), Spelling (10%) Presentation Rubric: Preparedness (30%), Speaks Clearly (10%), Enthusiasm (35%), Posture (10%), Pauses (5%), Listens to Others Presentations (10%) || • Digital Presentation: Story about childhood event • Blog/Vlog: Write or Record a blog/vlog for at least a week then write a story based on your blog/vlog • Online Poster Creator: Create a poster online comparing passionate with non-passionate stories • Wikispace: Listen to three of your classmates "stories" then create a wiki on how you related to each story using hyperlinks to websites that come to mind. • Comic-Life: Comic Life Story where one character has all your strengths and another character has all your weaknesses. || • Self-Assessment: At the end of each story write a paragraph on how you think you did, and on how you liked or disliked the assignment. • Reflective: Opportunity to share writing with the class, and receive feedback || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Students will create a digital presentation of a children's book about an event that happened to them.
 * Role:** Students are aspiring children's authors
 * Audience:** A group of editors and publishing company executives from Random House, Inc.
 * Situation:** "Sell" a new children's book to the publishing company using a digital presentation
 * Product/Presentation:** digital presentation of a children's story students write. They will use Comic Life to create the illustrations. Oral Presentation of Story.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * • Podcast: Audio Recording of a story that students wrote about a "big" event in their life.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • Pre-Assessment: Write a short paper on your feelings about writing

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** to you in a personal way. || •MLR: English Language Arts B. Writing Grades: 6-8 B2. Narrative ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Writing is about connecting things

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 || •Writing about personal experiences, and creating a moral out of it. ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * ****You are an aspiring children’s author who has written an amazing new children’s book about an event that happened in your life. You have sent your story off to several publishing companies, including Random House Inc, and have received a letter back from Random House. While they are interested in your story, they are still undecided on whether they want to publish it or not. They have asked you to “sell” your story to them, and to help get them excited about publishing it! Using Comic Life, and other digital media of your choosing, you will create a digital presentation of your story that you will present to several Random House editors and executives. Your story can be of any length and style that you choose. You will use Comic Life to create the illustrations for your story. Be Creative, and think “outside the box”! Create something that the executives will remember and be excited about! **** ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Illustrations (20%) • Creativity (15%) • Neatness/Organization (25%) • Attractiveness (20%) • Spelling/Punctuation (10%) || • Preparedness (30%) • Speaks Clearly (10%) • Enthusiasm (35%) • Posture/Eye Contact (10%) • Pauses (5%) • Listens to other Presentations (10%) ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * • Project Effort (10%)
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**