Authentic: There is an external audience for the student work.
Students created a website, and had the
Academc Rigor: The project demands breadth and depth of specific knowledge of central concepts.
Applied Learning: Students use multiple high performance work organization skills (e.g., working in teams; using technology appropriately; communicating ideas, collecting, organizing, and analyzing information)
Active Exploration: Students gather information from a variety of primary sources and use a variety of methods (interviewing and observing, collecting data, model-building, using on-line services)
Assessmet: Students receive frequent and timely feedback on their works-in-progress from teachers, mentors, and peers.
WV CSOs That were covered in this Unit
RLA.O.4.1.9 determine the author’s purpose in literary and informational texts and use supporting material to justify author’s intent: •to persuade
•to entertain
•to inform
•to determine a specific viewpoint
RLA.O.4.1.13 judge the reliability or logic of informational texts.
RLA.O.4.1.14 select and use a variety of sources to gather information (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, informational texts, electronic resources).
RLA.O.4.2.6 write to persuade using order of importance, classifying differences and similarities, classifying advantages and disadvantages
RLA.O.4.2.7 develop a composition that demonstrates an awareness of the intended audience using appropriate language, content and form.
RLA.O.4.2.9 use editing strategies to correct errors in sentence structure (fragments and run-on sentences), capitalization, punctuation and grammar.
RLA.O.4.2.14 use strategies to compile information into written reports or summaries (e.g., incorporate notes into a finished product, include simple facts-details-explanations-examples, draw conclusions from relationships and patterns that emerge from data of different sources, use appropriate visual aids and media).
RLA.O.4.2.15 critically evaluate own and others’ written compositions.
RLA.O.4.3.4 create an age appropriate media literacy product that reflects understanding of format, characteristics and purpose.
Good explanation of how the TopTen project supports meaningful learning and good connections to the West Virginia CSO's!
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