PERIOD 2
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4
8:10 - 9:45 AM
PERIOD 1
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
10:10 - 11:45 AM
PERIOD 4
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
10:10 - 11:45 AM
Survey Second Semester
Final
2013-2014
Essential Question
What
have you learned that matters to you?
Purpose
Much
can change over the course of a year.
Now that you have almost completed your first year of high school, take
a few moments to reflect back on the person you were at the beginning of the
year. Oftentimes, we may overlook how
much we grow even over a short period of time; this assignment gives you the
opportunity to demonstrate and deepen your understanding of one key concept you
learned this year in Survey.
Directions
You
will be asked to develop a creative work that reflects one critical concept you
have learned throughout this year in Survey. This insight can be about a key thematic
concept learned throughout one of our units, or it can be something you learned
about yourself as a reader, writer, thinker and person. Whatever the case may be, it should be something
you find genuinely meaningful as you close this important chapter in your life.
You
have flexibility to develop this work in any medium you choose (poem, song,
visual art piece, painting, sculpture, speech, synthesis of multiple genres)
though it must demonstrate a significant
effort and be created and developed by you for the purposes of this assignment. You cannot recycle old projects for this
final.
If
you are planning to produce a performance of some sort, try to limit it to 3
minutes.
On
the day of the final, you will share your artistic representation with the
class and explain its connection to what you learned. During the second half of the final, you will
be asked to write a reflection that articulates the concept you learned with
more depth and how the details of your work reflect this insight.
Brainstorming Questions
Before
you commit to a specific idea, spend some time thinking and writing about the
following questions.
What is the most important idea or insight
you have learned from the books we read this year?
What did you learn about yourself over the
course of the year?
What did you learn about the world over the
course of the year?
What were your defining moments from the
year?
Rubric:
Rubric:
4-Accomplished
3-Proficient
2-Developing
1-Not Yet!
-Insight
-Originality
-Demonstrated
Effort
-Presentation
-Written
Reflection
Grading: 50 points (major assignment)
A Year in
Review
Of Mice and Men
Essential Question: Why are some people excluded from a
community and treated cruelly? What responsibilities do individuals have to
make everyone feel like they belong?
Core Concepts: Cruelty, Loneliness,
Friendship, Race, Poverty
To Kill a Mockingbird
Essential Question: Why do some people allow
others to be treated unfairly? What can
we do to créate a most just society?
Core Concepts: Empathy,
prejudice, justice, power, social hierarchy/location, equity, privilege, Jim
Crow
Personal Narrative
Essential Question: What story to I have to
tell?
Core Concepts: Storytelling, personal
history, emotional impact
Poetry
Essential Question: How can you use
figurative language powerfully?
Core Concepts: Power
of voice, presentation, being heard
Martian Chronicles
Essential Question: What is the relationship
between technology and progress?
Core Concept: Destruction,
technology, greed, selfishness, synthesis
Persuasive Speech
Essential Question: How can you persuasively
convey your point of view?
Core
Concepts: Ethos, pathos, logos, rhetoric, argumentation, presentation
Romeo and Juliet
Essential Question: To what extent are we responsable for the
choices we make?
Core Concepts: love,
family expectations, violence, fate, tragedy, performance
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