During this module, students will determine the theme of a poem using details in the text, including how characters respond to challenges and how the narrator reflects upon a topic. It should be noted that prior to this module, students will have had several instructional opportunities to learn...
Inquiry By Design, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Dennie Wolf
John McMillan
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English / Language Arts
11, 12
High (9-12)
In this task students will read, analyze, and write about a range of documentary texts from American art and literature that portray the American dream and how people pursue, secure, or are disappointed in their quest for it. Students will then research the life of a person they know ...
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Kari Kokka
Vinci Daro
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Mathematics
Algebra 2
10, 11, 12
High (9-12)
This task begins with an animated video clip showing a cat jumping into the road, and a car nearly hitting it, which motivates a framing question: Can the driver stop in time? This sets the context for a whole-class brainstorm about what quantities might need to be considered in order to answer...
For this performance task, students will analyze how an author uses imagery and symbolism to reveal a theme in a novel.
Taking the role of graphic artists working for the publisher of the novel, they will create a visual that highlights that theme and the imagery/symbolism from the novel...
In this task, students will read a fiction novel of their choice containing a modern social issue. Students will then conduct research on the social issue and write a research paper that analyzes and compares/contrasts the depiction of a social issue in the novel in relation to the reality of...
