S2+Brennick+Christopher

=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You are a political operative at one of the top political consulting firms in Washington, DC. Audience: You will be addressing this as a presentation to officials at the immigration office in an attempt to win the contract to build the entire class. Situation: The United States Government has hired you to make an informational advertisement which highlight for the rights duties and responsibilities in government for new citizens and the differences between their role in the country they are coming from and the United States. Product/Presentation:A lesson that will inform new citizens about rights, duties, and responsibilities and highlighting how they compare with those in the country they are coming from. The final product a student will create is either going to an podcast, Imovie, or a Wiki.
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal:Your firm has to come up with a part of the naturalization course that will inform new citizens about rights, duties, and responsibilities in government and also inform them about how to be good citizens.

Standards (criteria from both rubrics):Content, Quality, Grammar and spelling, Digital quality, Clarity, Organization Presentation: On topic, Audience, engagement, Original, Confidence, Readiness, Eye contact || • Wiki: Students will build a wiki space site to portfolio all of the work they have done during this unit. •Interest group presentation: Students will come up with a presentation to an interest group. This presentation will show ways in which the interest group can effect positive change on their issue. || •Blog: students will continue to blog on their feelings about current event article that I post on the class wiki. •Requirements for each project: Before handing in each projects students will have to fill their own copy of the requirements out for that project. If a student marks not complete for a requirement they must give the reason(s) why that requirement was not complete by the group. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * •Quizzes: 2 vocabulary quizzes over the word given to them on vocabulary sheets
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * •Meeting Prompt: Students will attend a school board meeting after which they will write a one page paper on how one or more of the issues discussed or voted on at the meeting effects them.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** B. Civics and government B2. Students understand the constitutional and legal rights, the civic duties and responsibilities and roles of citizens in a constitution democracy and the role of citizens living under other forms of government in the world. ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * •Citizens have rights, duties, and responsibilities when participating in government. || •Maine Learning Results: Social Studies

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * Big Idea || Big Idea ||
 * • rights, duties, and responsibilities || • Government influence ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * The United States Government has found your site online and are very impressed by the work your political consulting firm has done. Your knowledge of government and citizen’s involvement is so well developed they have decided to contract you to build a either a podcast, Imovie, or an interactive Wiki as part of the naturalization course that all new immigrants must take to become American citizens. This information needs to tell all new citizens what rights, duties and responsibilities they have in the American governmental system and what ways they can become involved effecting change in the world around them. The government wants this information to be highly personalized for new citizens. The government would like these to either be podcast, movie, or interactive website for new citizens to use. The government said that the winning firm will get the big contract to build he rest of the information and this will produce revenues for your firm. Getting the contract will produce major revenues for your firm and your team will get a promotion and salary bump. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * •Section of new immigrants class (imovie, podcast, wiki site) || •Oral presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Quality • Grammar and Spelling • Digital Quality • Clarity • Organization || • On topic • Audience engagement • Volume • Collaboration with peers • Readiness • Eye contact ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • Content
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**