S2+Vierkant,+Corinne

=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

• Wikispace: Students will research and create a wiki comparing the changes that caused the Renaissance with another period of change. Students must also make comment on classemates wiki pages discussing similarities they found with the period of change they researched. •Blog: Students will partake in a two sided discussion on whether the Renaissance was in fact the starting point of the modern world. Students will be asked to research for or against this idea and debate in class. They are then to go home and post a blog arguing their oppositions point of view. •Post-Assessment: After projects, students will be asked to grade themselves according to the set standards for each project. • Students will be asked to comment on each others wikispaces and blogs to discuss any similarities or differences that struck them or made them think. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Your task is to create a commercial for Expedia's new time travel vacations, "selling" a vacation to the Renaissance while promoting a specific attraction of the era.
 * Role:** You are an employee at an advertisement agency who has been hired by Expedia to create a commercial promoting the Renaissance.
 * Audience:** You need to convince the Expedia that they should use your commercial to promote their time travel to the Renaissance package.
 * Situation:** You and your group must create a commercial selling travel to the Renaissance and an attraction that sets it apart as an era, and then convince the Expedia Time Travel Agency to use your commercial.
 * Product/Presentation:** You will need to use iMovie to create a commercial promoting the Renaissance and an attraction and then give an oral presentation to convince Expedia why your commercial should be used.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):** The iMovie will be graded on: content, originality, requirement, permission, attractiveness, and workload. The Oral presentation will be graded on: Enthusiasm, preparedness, speaks clearly, time-limit, evaluates peers, and attire. ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * •Comic Life: Students will create a comic about one of the situations that caused the Renaissance and conclude with how it ended up resulting in the Renaissance.
 * Garage Band: In pairs, students will pick an ancient Greek or Roman philosopher to research and create a radio interview of the ancient philosopher as if he traveled forward in time to the Renaissance, and discuss their influence on Renaissance philosophy and ideals.
 * iMovie: Students will assume the role of a major artist, philosopher, or writer of the Renaissance thats shows one of their major contributions to the era. ||
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * •Blog: Students will reflect on opinions after class discussion and on other opinions that struck them, and why.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** and ideals.
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •The Renaissance was characterized by a return to ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
 * The Renaissance was the starting point of the transition from the Medieval era to the Modern World. || • Maine Learning Results: E. History. E1, b. ||

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 Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * • The Renaissance and transition to the Modern Era. || • Causes of Change, Philosophy. ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * The opportunity of your career has just presented itself to you! As a creative designer at a major advertisement company, Expedia, who is now offering time travel vacations, has asked your company, and several other advertisement companies, to create a commercial promoting their special vacation package to Renaissance Italy. They ask that you create an eye catching and exciting commercial that promotes the Renaissance, and to choose one major attraction of the era to include in the commercial. Expedia wants the commercial to target potential travelers to visit the Renaissance and to use their travel agency. The attraction is meant to excite the potential consumer about the era and enhance the attraction of the era as a potential vacation destination. As a design team, your group will present the final product to Expedia. The presentation needs to argue why they should pick your commercial over the ones from the competing companies to use in the promotion of the Renaissance vacation package. Be convincing and enthusiastic! this contract could mean the future success of your company and you as an individual! ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Originality •Requirement •Permission •Attractiveness •Workload || •Enthusiasm •Preparedness •Speaks Clearly •Time-Limit •Evaluates Peers •Attire ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •Content
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**