Analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources Examine and explain alternative perspectives across a variety of sources Describe and illustrate how common themes are found across texts from different cultures Apply mathematical models to illuminate a problem or situation Design a mathematical model to inform and solve a practical or abstract situation Combine and synthesize into new concepts Design Connect Synthesize Apply concepts Critique Analyze Create Prove
ACTIVITY The following activity develops skills in the Unit 1: Reading Literary Text . Standards: ELAGSE3.RL.1, ELAGSE3.RL.2, ELAGSE3.RL.3, ELAGSE3.RL.4, ELAGSE3.RL.5, ELAGSE3.RL.6, ELAGSE3.RL.7, ELAGSE3.RL.9 and ELAGSE3.W.3 Create a Story Cut out a picture from a magazine or newspaper and paste it to the top of a blank sheet of lined paper. Look at your picture and consider the following questions: Where is the setting? Who are the characters? What might be happening? When could the events take place? on your answers, write an original story based on the picture. When you are finished, share your story with a family member or a friend. Have a discussion about what you saw in the picture and what they see in the picture. Consider how your stories could be different. Tell a Story through Characters Start by inventing a character. Each character should have a name and an occupation. Each character feels a certain way. Use the following suggestion to help you develop your character. Write on a piece of paper the following: Sarah is a doctor. She feels bored. She always walks fast. (name) is a (job). (S)he feels . (S)he always . Work with friends and combine your characters into a story. Share the story with others. ACTIVITY The following activity develops skills in Unit 5: Language .
Exemplar Response Item 13 Points Description 4 The response achieves the following: Response demonstrates a complete understanding of patterns in the multiplication table. Give four points if student response indicates four correct patterns in the multiplication chart. Response is correct and complete. Response shows application of a reasonable and relevant strategy. Mathematical ideas are expressed coherently through clear, complete, logical, and fully developed responses, using words, calculations, and/or symbols, as appropriate. 3 The response achieves the following: Response demonstrates a nearly complete understanding of patterns in the multiplication table. Give three points if student response indicates three correct patterns in the multiplication chart. Response is nearly completely correct. Response shows application of a reasonable and relevant strategy. Mathematical ideas are expressed coherently through clear, complete, logical, and fully developed responses, using words, calculations, and/or symbols, as appropriate. 2 The response achieves the following: Response demonstrates a partial understanding of patterns in the multiplication chart. Give two points if student response indicates two correct patterns. Response shows application of a relevant strategy, though it may be only partially applied or remain unexplained. Mathematical ideas are expressed only partially, using words, calculations, and/or symbols, as appropriate.