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ELA

Performance Task

2-2 final

 

Standard(s):

 

E2b-2 Informing Others: Report or Information Writing

By the end of the year, we expect second-grade students to:

  • have an obvious organizational structure.
  • communicate big ideas, insights, or theories that have been elaborated on or illustrated through facts, details, quotations, statistics and information.
  • use diagrams, charts, or illustrations as appropriate to the text.

 

The Task:

 

 

Our school is sponsoring a panel discussion about animals that are disappearing from the Earth.  The panel will discuss specific endangered animals, and reasons why people will miss those animals if they become extinct.  Our class has been asked to assist the effort by making brochures to hand out to the audience. 

 

Select an endangered animal.  You have studied endangered animals in your reading and science activities this year.  Use this information plus other library books or Web sites such as http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/blue_whale.html or http://search.yahooligans.com/search/ligans?p=endangerd+species&y=y&r=Science+and+Nature in making your brochure. You can look at samples of brochures on Microsoft 2000 Publishers or other sample brochures.

 

Decide what materials you will need.  Then, decide how you are going to organize your brochure.  Be sure to include the following:

1.      a title page

2.      several pages that provide specific information on the animal, and

3.      a credits page (the page where you give credit for the material you used).

What specific information would help a reader understand why the animal is endangered?  Include some or all of the following information in your brochure:

·        habitat

·        description of the animal

·        animal’s diet

·        animal’s social life

·        why the animal is endangered

·        ways man can protect this animal

·        specific facts on this animal.

 

Include pictures, diagrams, and charts in your brochure to help your reader understand this animal’s plight.   Have your classroom teacher or parent review your brochure.  Use their feedback to edit and revise.  Share your brochure with your classmates.

 

Note: If submitting work to DoDEA for written commentary please include the list of

three to five resources used in making the brochure.

  

 

 

Circumstances of Performance:

 

The student work is produced under the following conditions:

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alone

 

in a group

 

 

 

 

   X

in class

  X

as homework

 

 

 

 

   X

with teacher feedback

  

with peer feedback

 

 

 

 

 

timed

  X

extended project

 

 

 

 

 

no opportunity for revision

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opportunity for revision

 

Criteria for Success:

 

·        Uses at least three to five resources in making the brochure.

·        Includes a title page, at least 4 pages of information, and a bibliography.

·        Uses graphics to illustrate the information.

·        Includes at least four to seven specific facts on the animal.

·        Explains why the animal is on the endangered list.

·        Follows correct conventions.

 

Related Standard(s):

 

Writing

E2a Habits and Processes

By the end of the year, we expect 2nd grade students to:

  • extend pieces of writing.

·        regularly solicit and provide useful feedback.

·        routinely reread, revise, edit and proofread their work.

 

Reading

E1b-4 Comprehension

·        Recognize and be able to talk about organizing structures.

·        Combine information from two different parts of the text.

·        Infer cause and effect relations that are not stated explicitly.