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toc =Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You are part of a group of stock brokers. Audience: The stock investors that you are trying to get to invest.. Situation: The challenge involves reading graphs and recognizing trends in order to predict future behavior. The challenge also entails accurately plotting points and labeling graphs. Product/Presentation: You will create a graph displaying each days closing data for your 5 stocks. You will then give a presentation and convince a group of stock investors (your class) to choose your stock. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Project: Accuracy, neatness/attractiveness, number of stocks graphed, data table, X and Y axis labeled Presentation: preparedness, content, time-limit, posture and eye contact, comprehension, vocabulary. || • Worksheet (matching graphs to equations and creating graphs using equations). • Test on graphs and equations. || • Homework dealing with graphs and equations. • Afterwards write a reflexive piece on whether the stock market is a "good" investment. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: Your goal is to help your clients invest wisely in the stock market using ideas of slope and intercept to choose your stock.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • Definition of terms worksheet (slope, intercept, etc).
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • Pre-assessment - pre-quiz on graphs and equations so I have some idea of where everyone is as a class.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** Functions and Relations ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * • Graphs are useful in the real world. || • MLA Mathematics- D. Algebra

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 ||
 * • Functions || • Graphs ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * You and your colleagues have been hired as stock brokers by a group of wealthy clients. Your clients are looking to invest $100,000 and expect you to help them pick the right stocks so that they will make the most money. They come to you to find out which stock they should invest it. They will give you 2 weeks to collect data on stocks and after the two weeks are up they expect you to convince them to invest in the stocks you choose. When they first come to you, you will have to pick 3 to 5 stocks and research some past data for at least 2 weeks. You should make a data table and graph depicting the stocks you chose and a brief explanation of which stock you are going to invest the money in and how much you are investing in each one. At this point you are to keep track of the stocks you invested in for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks your investors are going to meet with you and you are to convince them that you are making them money. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**// The other students in the class will be able to go to the wikispace and discuss each groups stocks and which one they would have chosen and why. || • Professional oral presentation lasting from 3-5 minutes long. ||
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * • Posted portfolio on wikispace including graphs and figures.

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Neatness/Attractiveness • Title • Data Table • Number of stocks graphed • X and Y axis labeled || • Preparedness • Content • Time-limit • Posture and Eye Contact • Comprehension • Vocabulary ||
 * Product Criteria || PresentationCriteria ||
 * • Accuracy of the plot
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**