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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

•**ComicLife**: Students will use essential ideas to create their own comic. •**Glogster**: Students will look at essential ideas and create a Glogster connecting them to the novel and the real world. •**Crocodocs**: Students will analyze various themes in the novel and their purpose, commenting on classmates' analyses. •**Podcast**: Students will create podcasts defining and explaining a literary element present in __The Hunger Games.__ •**Voicethread**: Students will identify the themes present in the novel, finding examples both from the book and other resources and comment on how they relate to one another. || •**Self-Assessment**: Students will grade themselves on copies of the rubric before turning in their final product. •**Reflection**: Weekly blog entries responding to a variety of prompts. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Your goal is to design a season of //Survivor// based on the novel __The Hunger Games.__
 * Role:** You are a TV producer.
 * Audience:** Your audience is the CBS executives.
 * Situation:** Your challenge is to create a season of //Survivor: The Hunger Games//, which not only includes the characters from __The Hunger Games__, but also incorporating the major themes, essential ideas, and literary elements into the season in some way.
 * Product/Presentation:** You will create an outline of the season on Prezi which will be presented to the executives at CBS.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Product:** Content Accuracy (30%), Style (20%), Aesthetics(10%), Use of Media (15%), Originality (15%), Professional Quality (10%)
 * Presentation:** Speaks Clearly (25%), Posture and Eye Contact (20%), Content (15%), Stays on Topic (15%), Preparedness (15%), Listens to Other Presentations (10%) ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * •**Xtranormal**: Students will use Xtranormal to identify one or more literary elements present in the novel and comment on how the literary elements create meaning.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * •**Pre-Assessment**: Students will make a list of themes and essential ideas from novels they have already read, as well as identify various literary elements when given samples.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** English Language Arts - A. Reading A2 Literary Texts ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Universal themes, essential ideas, and literary elements are present in __The Hunger Games__. || •Maine Learning Results

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** ||
 * •__The Hunger Games__ || •Themes, ideas, and literary elements ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * The television show, //Survivor,// is running out of ideas for their upcoming seasons. They are looking for new ideas that will continue drawing in viewers. Executives at CBS are interested in recreating a season of //Survivor// similar to __The Hunger Games__ and have created a contest to find the TV producer who can best adapt the novel to //Survivor//. Your challenge is to create the plan for an entire season of //Survivor// challenges. The executives want the game to be similar to the novel, which means incorporating the themes, essential ideas, and literary elements into the challenges in some way. The executives will view each presentation and then decide whose challenges best meet what they are looking for. The person selected will be given a guest appearance at one of the tribal councils and will snuff the torch of the player voted off. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •Prezi || •Oral Presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Style (20%) •Aesthetics (10%) •Use of media (15%) •Originality (15%) •Professionalism (10%) || •Speaks Clearly (25%) •Posture and Eye Contact (20%) •Content (15%) •Stays on Topic (15%) •Preparedness (15%) •Listens to Other Presentations (10%) ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •Content Accuracy (30%)
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**