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You Be the Judge 8th Grade Unit 1 Performance Task

Task Overview

One of the things you may not have ever considered is that your teacher must preview all texts you read in class to ensure they meet the learning goals in the unit. In order to provide you and your classmates with more student choice, your teacher has asked you to preview a text to determine whether or not it is a good fit for the skills addressed within Unit 1 and complete a product showcasing your evaluation.

Requirements

Read and annotate one short story
Assess the short story and how well the Unit 1 required skills align with the story
Complete a product that explains how well the text aligned to each of the skills within Unit 1.
Unit 1 Skills to Assess:
analyzing theme through the development of characters and events.
analyzing how characters’ motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict.
explaining how the setting influences the values and beliefs of characters.
identifying and analyzing nonlinear plot development of a text such as flashbacks and foreshadowing, and subplots.

Materials/Resources Needed

Scoring Rubric
Technology for inquiry, research, and product creation
Copy of the short stories:
"The Right Kind of House"
“Clean Sweep”
“Orange Crush”
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING EVALUATION FORM

Performance Task Evaluation Form

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