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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

• **Comic Life**: Students will illustrate major scenes from the play. • **Podcast**: Students will create an interview with Abigail Williams and John Proctor. • **Google Earth**: Students will use this tool to take a virtual tour of Salem, Massachusetts; they will visit any relevant, historical sights from the 1692 witch trials. • **Wikispace**: Students will upload their own original digital photography to Wikispace. Each photograph will be representative of a symbol, theme, imagery, or character present within the text. Students will then add a brief explanation as to why they chose the photographs they did and how the photographs accurately depict a symbol, theme, image, or character from the play. • **Glogster**: Students will create a poster using Glogster that will depict a major theme from //The Crucible.// || •**Self-assessment**: Pre, during, and post skill and knowledge surveys. • **Reflection**: Weekly journal entries in response to given choice of prompts. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** The goal is to accurately depict Miller’s characters, themes, and symbol(s) presented through the text.
 * Role:** Your job is to be the director, actor, writer and producer of your own audition video for CBS “Survivor.”
 * Audience:** The producers of the hit, reality show “Survivor.”
 * Situation:** The producers of “Survivor” are looking for the contestants for next season.
 * Product/Presentation:** For your entry, you are asked to film a homemade video which contains your very own mock competition.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * //Presentation://** **// Comprehension 25%, Preparedness/Attire 15%, Content 25%, Posture/Eye Contact 5%, Enthusiasm 10%, Stays on Topic 20% //**
 * //Product://** **// Teamwork 15%, Accuracy 20%, Creativity 20%, Script/Storyboard 10%, Comprehension 15%, Final Product 20% //** ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * • **Blog**: Students will keep a blog focusing on //one// character from the play.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • **Pre-assessment**: KWL chart will supply a more relaxed form of pre-assessment with follow-up pieces that will track students' progress.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** A) Reading A2) Literary Texts ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * • There are several themes present in Arthur Miller's //The Crucible.// In addition to the themes, there is also a major conflict and symbol within the text. || •English Language Arts

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 Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * • Conflict || • Symbol(s) and themes ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * The producers of “Survivor”, a reality television show on the CBS network, are searching for contestants to compete on their newly announced high school edition. The producers have announced that the upcoming season will be depicting Arthur Miller’s famous 1953 play, //The Crucible//. High school students across the United States are being asked to film mock competitions in place of traditional audition videos. You, the students, are to be the directors, the actors, the producers, and the writers of your videos. It is your job to have an accurate representation of Miller’s characters in your videos and to clearly portray themes and symbols that are found within the text. The members of the two winning teams will be given the opportunity to compete on the hit television show for one million dollars and the chance to receive the title of the “soul survivor.” ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •iMovie || • 2 to 3 minute video ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Accuracy 15% • Content 20% • Script 10% • Comprehension 15% • Final Project 20% || •Confidence/Attire 10% •Content 20% •Enthusiasm 10% •Preparedness 20% •Collaboration with Group Members 15% • Comprehension 25% ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * • Team Work 10%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**