May 30, 2017

Summative Assessment: Curating your learning

It’s time to pull the course together, and for you to consider what tasks best demonstrate your learning in this course. 

As you know, a course mark is made up of two parts: 

  • Course Assessment is valued at 70%
  • Summative Assessment is valued at 30%

The Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition (similar to the one you completed at midterm with additional choices to reflect the whole semester) is the place where you curate (select, organize, and present) evidence of your learning. 

A significant part of the Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition is The #CDNcraft Rubric. This rubric is THE place for you to curate evidence of your learning specifically tied to the #CDNcraft project. 

Today and tomorrow, you will review the rubric, complete or revise pieces you choose as evidence of your learning, and finally, link that evidence into the rubric. Below is an image of the top portion of a student completed rubric from last semester. Notice that the student began by highlighting all the work he completed in the criteria column. Then he decided which items he would curate and the level for that work based on the feedback received on each item and the descriptors found at the bottom of the rubric. 

Then, you will review the Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition. You will complete or revise pieces you choose as evidence of your learning and link that evidence into the document. 

The final day you can submit work to me for feedback (so those items that you decide to link into either your CDNcraft rubric or your Evidence of Learning Document) is June 2 at midnight. 

Once your build is finished, you will need to share it out. One way to do this is to create a screencast video.  (See examples here).

  1.  Go to Chrome Web Store and search for SCREENCASTIFY
  2. View Screencasting your BUILD. 
  3. In your video, make sure to include the following:
  • Your name, grade and class
  • Explanation of what your built
  • Explanation of how your build connects to your vision of reconciliation
  • A tour of your build

THEN share your build with me via the assignment submission page.

Student Final Project Reflection

The Evidence of Learning Document is due no later than June 9 at midnight. 

The summative assessment (15% of your final grade) will begin on June 12. The exam (15% of your final grade) will take place on Monday, June 26th (I believe?).

Both the summative writing and exam will be assessed by me. 

May 29, 2017

Final Literature Circle Day!

FINAL LITERATURE CIRCLE

You are reading a text by a Canadian. We are thinking about the over-arching question “What does being a great Canadian look like? For this week’s conversation on your book/play, I want you to think about the connection or intersection between your characters and the idea of being a great Canadian.

Everyone in the group prepares individually by considering the following quote:

“To be Canadian is to always be searching for meaning, place, purpose, in our own country, in the world. I think all humans do this. The details in our writing are not only what make us relate to each other, but what place us in time and sensibility. Ultimately, we write about the human experience, not just the Canadian one. But that Canadian experience, because of our origins and changing culture and constant questions of identity, and our observations of daily life as well as our ability to imagine outside our boundaries, defies being boxed by its very definition.” from Bella’s Bookshelves

Choose two of the following questions to answer in the chart below. Use your text. Cite page references of the text that will support your thinking.

  1. Do you agree with the above quote? Why or Why not?
  2. Do you consider your text to be Canadian literature? Why or Why not?
  3. Does a novel/play/text have to be set in Canada to be considered Canadian?
  4. How did your novel/play/text  represent Canada at the time it was written? How does it represent Canada today?
  5. How might the lives of the characters in a story change if the story were set in a different part of the country, or a country other than Canada?
  6. What influence did geography have on the character’s development?
  7. What character traits does your protagonist have that make him/her a great Canadian?
  8. Who is represented in your novel? Which voices are privileged and which are silenced?

Literature Circle Assessment.

BUILD

Last class to work on build. It’s due on Friday.

May 26, 2017

Work Period

Research Report Due Today (see May 23 post)

Build Due Next Friday (see May 24 post)

Literature Circle preparation for Monday

On Monday, those of us ready to discuss will form one group. We will discuss our books and then reflect on the discussion process.