Assessments

Knowing Support Your

Song Personal How are We
Title Letter to Yourself from the Storyboard Truism
Representation Essay Alike
Heart
Learning Outcomes
Type Summative Formative Summative Summative
(Formative/Summative)
Formative Summative Formative
N/A
Weighting 30 40 N/A N/A N/A
30
Discern and analyze context
 2.1.1. d. identify the impact
that personal context—
experience, prior x X X x x
knowledge—has on
constructing meaning from
a text
Connect self, text, culture and
milieu
 2.3.1.a. identify and
consider personal moral
and ethical perspectives, as
well as cultural
perspectives, when x x X x x
studying literature and
other texts; and reflect on
and monitor how
perspectives change as a
result of interpretation and
discussion
 2.3.1.b. respond personally
and analytically to ideas
developed in literature and X x x X x
other texts
Evaluate the verisimilitude,
appropriateness and significance
of print and non-print texts x x x X
 2.3.2.f. assess the
 significance of a text’s x
theme or controlling idea,
and the effectiveness of the
content in terms of
adequate and relevant
supporting details,
examples or illustrations
Appreciate diversity of
expression, opinion and
perspective
 5.1.2.a. appreciate diversity
of thought and expression,
x
select and monitor x x X x
appropriate strategies for
appreciating diversity, and
modify selected strategies
as needed
 5.1.2.c. identify the
underlying assumptions
reflected in the ideas and
opinions presented in a x x x
text
Assessment Tool Overview
Assessment
Assessment Assessment
Assessment Tool Brief Description FOR
AS Learning OF Learning
Learning
Students will write a letter to their future
or past selves. They will give advice or
Letter to Yourself
provide caution about events or x
emotions.

Students will find four songs that

Song
Representation
represent four scenes from the movie x
“The Truman Show”

Students will create a truism and support

Support your their claim with two pieces of literature.
Truism They must use a quote from each piece x
of literature as evidence.
Students will write a two paragraph
analysis of the question “How are We
How are We Alike? Alike?” They must use a personal x
experience and evidence from a piece of
literature we have read in class

Students will reflect on a past memory.

Knowing from the
Heart
They will also begin to familiarize x
themselves with idea of a “truism”.

Storyboard Students will create a live storyboard of x

Students will write an essay about a

selected truism. They will defend their
Personal Essay
claim with a text, a film, and a personal x
experience.