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toc =Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: News reporters sent back in time. Audience: General news watching public. Situation: You must analyze the biases of records and sources concerning this conflict. Also, you must create objective broadcasts detailing the connections between the Spanish conquests and modern day conquests. Product/Presentation: You will create a news reports showing connections between events during this cultural clash and those today. For each event or result covered, examine and explain biases in the records and connect this to the coverage of modern conflicts. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Presentation: 7-10 minutes and will be evaluated on overall quality, creativity, objectivity, accuracy, and the examination of source biases. || • Blogs from each group containing a synopsis of their weekly videos. •Mock negotiations between the Spanish conquistadors and various Aztec factions. || •They will discuss how they can improve and create a better product. • They will also reflect on how they worked as a group and will discuss how they improved on each video. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: Your news team has been sent back in time to 1502 and has landed in the Aztec Empire. Your job is to send news reports to the future to draw comparisons between the events in the Spanish/Aztec conflicts to modern day clashes.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • Two quizzes over the Spanish/Aztec interactions and resulting events.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • Students will self-assess by filling out reflective questionnaires after showing their videos to the class.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** E1. Historical Knowledge// ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * **•**The result of these interactions gave way for further expansion and conquests in later eras.**** || • //MLR E. History

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 ||
 * •Cultural Conflicts || •Biases in primary/secondary sources. ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * You are a news reporter that has been sent back in time by the BBC to the year 1502 CE. You and your news team are required by the BBC to cover the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire. Your assignment is to send back weekly news reports to the modern day audience back in 2008 CE. These news reports are supposed to inform the general public of the cross cultural interactions and changes that are occurring within the cultures of the Spanish and Aztecs respectively. You must also relate this conflict to the issues we face in the moder world that arise from cross cultural interactions and clashes such as the global War on Terror. ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Objectivity •Overall Quality •Length (7-10 min) •Creative •Properly Cited || •In Character (news team) •Overall Quality •Voice •Participation • • ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * •Accuracy
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**