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Grade 8: Performance Based Task (PBT)

Unit: Exploring the Unknown. Grade 8: Performance Based Task (PBT). Description. The Performance Based Task will consist of multiple tasks completed over the course of a few days.

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Grade 8: Performance Based Task (PBT)

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  1. Unit: Exploring the Unknown Grade 8: Performance Based Task (PBT)

  2. Description • The Performance Based Task will consist of multiple tasks completed over the course of a few days. • Part 1 consists of closely analyzing an Anchor source, taking notes for comprehension, and answering text-dependent questions. • Part 2 offers mixed media selections that reinforce the Exploring the Unknown Unit themes. Students will take notes on all mixed media selections. • In Part 3, students will write an argument essay. This essay will allow students to apply their understanding of the mixed media sources to the anchor source.

  3. Common Core Standards • Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. (RI.8.2) • Read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grade 6-8 complexity band independently and proficiently. (RI.8.10) • Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. (W.8.1) • Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. (RI.8.1) • Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (RI.8.9)

  4. Essential Question • Does technology advance our society or hinder it?

  5. Pt 1: Anchor Source 1 • Use Student Resource Sheet 1 to analyze the David Palumbo painting on the next slide. • Fill in as much of the chart as you can. Then answer the questions that follow on Student Resource Sheet 2. • Provide text support for each answer.

  6. Anchor Source 1 http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/dispatches-future?nopaging=1

  7. Stop • This is the END of Day 1. • Make sure you have carefully analyzed Anchor Source 1. • Review the answers you have provided to the text-dependent questions. • Be sure you have provided evidence from the text for each of your answers!

  8. Pt 2: Supplementary Texts • Preview the following supplementary texts. • Using the Cornell system, take notes on each of the texts on your own paper. • Summarize each text at the bottom of your note sheet after previewing it. • You will choose two to supplement your anchor text as the focus for your argument essay.

  9. Supplementary Source A • Literature (fiction) • “Predictions for how we will live and work—on Earth or in space—in the decades and centuries to come” from July 2013 issue of Popular Science” • Directions: • Read the passage and take notes that demonstrate understanding of main and supporting information. • Source A

  10. Supplementary Source B • You tube clip • Directions: • The following clip is a documentary of how technology can be used to assist paraplegics. • Watch the video and summarize the information. • Source B

  11. Supplementary Source C • You Tube clip • Directions: • The following clip is a promotional video advertising the possible applications of tiny robots for military purposes. • Watch the video and summarize the information. • Source C

  12. Supplementary Source D • Informational Text (non fiction) • Directions: • Read the following article and summarize the information. • Source D

  13. Supplementary Source E • Data Chart • Review the Chart and consider what this says about Internet use among young people. • Source E

  14. Part III: Argument Essay • Directions: • Review information from the anchor source and at least two of the supplementary sources you analyzed and incorporate the information into a coherent, well-developed essay that argues a clear position on whether technology advances society or hinders it. • Make sure your argument is central; use evidence from the sources to support your reasoning. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly from which sources you are drawing, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary.

  15. Graphic Organizer • Complete Student Resource Sheet 3 as a graphic organizer for your 5-paragraph argument essay • Locate evidence in each source to support your claim. • Does technology advance society or hinder it? • Have a peer (or two!) complete the checklist on the back to revise your paper

  16. Rubric • Click on the following link to download a copy of the rubric. • Please read each item on the rubric carefully to make sure you fully understand the requirements for your essay • Rubric

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