Culminating Tasks The Tiger Rising · 2015. 12. 14. · The Tiger Rising Culminating Tasks Task...
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The Tiger Rising Culminating TasksStephanie Dean
What is a Culminating Task?
A culminating activity should...
• be central to the purpose of the course or the unit and require students to think about important issues or questions; • be multifaceted, requiring a number of skills, different learning styles or mental intelligences, and assess more than one aspect of achievement; • be engaging and hold the interest of students over time;• use important content and meet many of the specific expectations of the curriculum guideline; • provide for clear assessment of student development with levels of achievement identified; • be authentic in nature or represent a real-life experience, role or application • provide opportunities for the teacher and student to monitor the process of development of the activity or project and assess (formative) the learning; • be described in advance to the students, including examples, timeline for development, process sequence, expectations, and formative and summative assessment.
The Tiger RisingCulminating Tasks
TaskStudents were asked to Read-Write-Talk several articles that relate to the novel.
Students completed a graphic organizer that compared similar topics within two texts.
Students were given several writing prompts that relate to the novel and the articles.
Students were asked to choose a side, gather information, and debate an issue.
ReasoningStudents are able to compare a fiction text with a non-fiction text.
Students are able to understand the concept of bullying and expand their schema so that they can recognize examples of bullying throughout the text.
Students are able to practice how to provide relevant evidence from both texts to support their opinions.
Students are able to form their own opinions. Students will communicate their arguments using formal language in an organized setting.
Read~Write~Talk
Bullies: What is Bullying
Paper Bullying Activity
Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part
BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)
Idk= I didn't know that
I= Infer (Make an Inference)
?= I wonder
!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or
THE ANSWERS
Gathering Similar
Information from Two
Different Texts
Precise information from the article helps student make connections.
Specific quote from the book that serves as an example of what the article stated.
Same topic
Writing Prompt
Based on the article Bullies: What is Bullying, do you feel that the Threemonger brothers are bullies? Use evidence from the article and The Tiger Rising to support your answer.
Use evidence based
terminology in response.
Give specific
examples from the
novel. Make sure it is relevant.
Read~Write~Talk
Zoochosis
**Debate!!**
Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part
BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)
Idk= I didn't know that
I= Infer (Make an Inference)
?= I wonder
!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or
THE ANSWERS
Writing Prompt
Put yourself in the tiger’s shoes from the novel The Tiger Rising. What is he thinking? How does he feel? Use what you have learned from the article Zoochosis to support your answer.
Cite your source to provide
evidence to support your
answerGive details from BOTH
texts to support your answer
Read~Write~Talk
Tigers Roar Back
**Tiger Documentary**
Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part
BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)
Idk= I didn't know that
I= Infer (Make an Inference)
?= I wonder
!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or
THE ANSWERS
Writing Prompt
Based on the information that you learned in the article Tigers Roar Back, do you agree or disagree with Rob’s decisions to free the tiger? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Cite your source by giving
evidence from the text
Include your own thoughts
and opinions
Make inferences using the
information you have read