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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. 

March 26, 2017

Week of March 27 – 31, 2017

Monday–Day 2

Progress Reports–> Check your email. Update your tracking sheet. Email me in return.

Book Review 

Tuesday–Day 1

Citing our sources

Research note #1: “A Very Short List of Canadian Values” By N.Macdonald.

Research note #2: “Telling Their Stories or Opting Out: Indigenous Artists on Canada 150“

Research note #3: “Canada is hailed for its Tolerance”

Independent Reading Assessment: How to answer a test question.

As a senior student, every time you answer a question when the instructions ask for paragraph format and evidence, it needs to look a lot like this answer. You had five questions to answer. You need to have five answers like this one. 

Also, you must proofread your work. You should no longer be making the types of errors you see below: 

Use the Personal Proofreading Checklist to ensure that you catch all these minor errors. 

Revise your independent novel reading assessment answers and re-submit to the Assignment Submission page. Due Friday, March 31, 2017.

Wednesday–Day 2

Reflect: Writing Revision. What does that mean to you? 

Read: The Climb and answer the questions. Submit the document to me.

Reading like a Writer handout.

Revise your Book Review 

  • Add in a hook
  • Improve your transitions
  • Find a place for the single line
  • Play with punctuation
  • Get creative with your close

Due April 7

VoiceThread Collaborative Analysis

Usernames follow this pattern

Austinb_wbe17@cdncraft.ed.voicethread.com

Sign in and read the activities. Choose one to respond to. 

Have a look at this video.

Thursday- Day 1

Taking Stock of where we are

There are lots of tools to help you stay on track in this course. We are really starting to connect with other students in the province, we are getting ready to conduct our own research, and we are making connections in the literature that we are reading. We do all of these things all the time; weaving them together to make connections between these three areas of exploration and then draw some conclusions near the end of the course when you create a product that ties into our big question:

What does being a great Canadian look like?

Course map link

#CDNcraft Rubric                               Research Wiki page Rubric             Literature Circle Rubric

Today, we will begin our inquiry planner and choose our literature circle groups and books.

Weekly Wrap-up

  1. Choose one of the texts below to read and summarize on this padlet. 
    1. Housing
    2. JTs Broken promises
    3. Intergenerational trauma
    4. Canadian Miltary 
    5. Religious Tolerance
    6. What colour is your beadwork, Joseph Boyden?
    7. Climate change
    8. Water

      2. Collaborative Analysis Choice of text. Read and comment. 

      3. Complete Independent Reading Assessment and submit.