S2+Mahoney,+Keith

toc =Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence.= http://www.stonewall.fcps.net/wq/cwwebquest/civilwar.htm Role: A general in the Civil War on the side chosen. Audience: The troops whom you are directing. Situation: You are on the battlefield directing your troops to victory. Product/Presentation: You will create a Comic Life battleplan for presentation and chronicle your strategy for victory in a blog. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): || •Display: Create a display of their battle strategies and a map of the battlefield. •Group Work: Students will work in groups with packets on battlefield strategies. || •KWL Chart: Students will state what they know, what they want to learn and then what they actually did learn. •Self-assessment: Students will score their projects based on a rubric and turn it into me before their final grade. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: To recreate a battle of the Civil War and develop a plan to win for the side that lost.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * •Quizzes: To assess understanding of the Civil War timeline, important factors in the battles, and important people.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * •Blogs: Students will write at least five entries into a blog using it as a General's journal.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** critically, some of the battles of the Civil War could have been won. || •Maine Learning Results: Social Studies, History (Grades 9-12) E1 ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * •Students will understand that by thinking

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 ||
 * •Civil War || • A victory given a certain set of circumstances. ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * You are a general during the Civil War and your side is losing. You must redirect your troops to guarantee a victory for your troops. You must create an abstract to organize your battleplan and develop a strategy so your troops to become victorious. You should upload your abstract, strategy, and post journal entries to your blog. ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Relation to Battleplan •Learning of Material •Interest || •Preparedness •Content •Evaluation of Peers •Comprehension ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * •Spelling and Grammer
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**