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This unit includes multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding as they move from building knowledge to showcasing learning. Assessment is embedded throughout the Spark, Investigation, and Showcase phases and culminates in a performance task that integrates reading, writing, speaking, and language standards.
Suggested Pacing
9 Weeks
Daily formative assessments, including discussion, annotation, quick writes, and other checks for understanding, provide real-time insight into student thinking and guide instructional decisions.
Each Investigation concludes with a traditional, standardized assessment designed to measure students’ mastery of targeted standards and key knowledge.
The unit culminates in a performance task that synthesizes reading, writing, speaking, and language skills, requiring students to demonstrate deep understanding of the unit’s essential questions and targeted standards.