Identity Assignment
For this performance task, you must show me how you either viewed, listened, and/or read and understood and responded to texts that address identity. You must also create and present a visual or multi-media text that expresses the concept of identity (including yours) and addresses a specific audience.
You must CREATE a VISUAL or MULTI-MEDIA presentation and PRESENT
(speaking) it to the class.
Must haves:
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It must show how the texts we’ve studied have helped to explain your own identity
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It must show clear connections to the ideas in the text or direct quotes from the text or summaries of the text – TO YOU!
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Present your visual or multi-media to class
What can I create?
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Prezi
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Poster
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Video (animation, puppet shows, skits, songs
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Art
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3-D models
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Brochures
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Illustrations (comics, political cartoons,
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Other???

View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., The Search for Self), social responsibility (e.g., Our Shared Narratives), and efficacy (e.g., Doing the Right Thing).
Level
Criteria
You can do it.
Spend some extra time with the criteria and ask for help.
INTERVENTION – 1
Good start. You are beginning to make sense of this on your own.
INSTRUCTIONAL – 2
You did it and you did it on your own!
INDEPENDENT - 3
Great work! This is going extra well for you!
MASTERY - 4
CR 9.1
View →texts
Listen →to texts
Read →texts
Ineffective comprehension and response to text that addresses identity,
Respond→ to texts efficacy.
Partial or Simplistic comprehension and response to text that addresses identity, social responsibility or efficacy.
Thoughtful comprehension and response to text that addresses identity, social responsibility or efficacy.
Insightful comprehension and response to text that addresses identity, social responsibility or efficacy.
Create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore identity (e.g., The Search for Self), social
responsibility (e.g., Our Shared Narratives), and efficacy (e.g., Doing the Right Thing).
Criteria
Spend some extra time with the criteria and ask for help.
INTERVENTION – 1
Good start. You are beginning to make sense of this on your own.
INSTRUCTIONAL – 2
You did it and you did it on your own!
INDEPENDENT - 3
Great work! This is going extra well for you!
MASTERY - 4
CC9.1
Create → various texts to explore ideas in the world
(including: multimedia texts, oral texts, written texts)
Impractical creation of various texts writing process. Few if any connections to exploration of identity, social responsibility and efficacy.
Workable creation of various texts writing process. Obvious connections to exploration of identity, social responsibility and efficacy.
Practical creation of various texts.
Meaningful connections to exploration of identity, social responsibility and efficacy.
Innovative creation of various texts writing process. Perceptive connections to exploration of identity, social responsibility, and efficacy.

Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations to best represent message for an intended audience and purpose.
You can do it.
Level
Criteria
Spend some extra time with the criteria and ask for help.
INTERVENTION – 1
Good start. You are beginning to make sense of this on your own.
INSTRUCTIONAL – 2
You did it and you did it on your own!
INDEPENDENT - 3
Great work! This is going extra well for you!
MASTERY - 4
CC9.5
Create →visual and multi-media presentations
Present →visual and multi-media presentations
Ineffective use of visual and multimedia to convey a message for the appropriate audience and purpose
Partial or simplistic use of visual and multimedia to convey a message for the appropriate audience and purpose.
Appropriate use of visuals and multimedia to convey a message for the appropriate audience and purpose.
Engaging use of visuals and multimedia to convey message for the appropriate audience and purpose.
You will also be assess on AR9.1 – assessing yourself, setting goals, working towards goals and showing proof of that. (rubric on separate page)

Complete the graphic organizer – Compose and Create “before strategy”
(considering audience & purpose & planning/organizing ideas)
Scaffolding:
1.
Flip through the text and your notes to review all of the text we have studied in class.
2.
On looseleaf, take note of all the identity concepts and anything you have learned about it and about yourself. Complete the graphic organizer:
3.
Compose and Create – Before Strategy - Speaking
(Considering Purpose and Audience)
What is the topic I am speaking about?
What do I know about my audience (age interests, needs, background)?
Why am I speaking? What is my purpose
(convince, persuade, defend)?
Should I use formal or informal stance?
What is my key message?
What do proficient speakers do to create quality texts?

4.
Complete the graphic organizer: Compose and Create – “Before
Strategy”(Planning and Organizing Ideas)
Compose and Create – Before Strategy
(Planning and Organizing Ideas)
What are the key ideas for this message?
How will I begin?
What is the best media for my message and audience?
What type of graphic organizer/planner would work best for me (flowchart, storyboard, other)?
How will I arrange my ideas to make sense?

5.
Once you have a plan in place and have done the needed research, begin to construct your multi-media presentation! Check with me any time you want feedback.
6.
Practice! Keep in mind aspects of a good representer/speaker as you work through preparing and practicing your presentation. There is a checklist on the next page that you SHOULD use at various points in the creation of your representation.