ELA 8/9
Indigenous Narratives Project
Your assignment:
Working in a group, explore Indigenous narratives to learn about their stories and share your
findings with the class.
Outcomes covered:
1. CC 1 – This will be the presentation of the multimedia presentation.
a.
Create and deliver a variety of personal, literary, and informational communications,
including poems, stories, personal essays, and oral, visual, written, and multimedia
presentations (e.g., written explanations, summaries, arguments, letters, biographies)
that address identity, social responsibility, and efficacy.
2. CC 3 – This will be using Sky Drive to record information you have found and working through
developing these ideas into a presentable format.
a.
Select and use appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before (e.g.,
considering and valuing own observations, experiences, ideas, and opinions as sources
for ideas), during (e.g., shaping and reshaping drafts with audience and purpose in
mind), and after (e.g., ensuring that all parts support the main idea or thesis) speaking,
writing, and other representing activities. -
3. CC 5 - Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations to best represent
message for an intended audience and purpose.
a. Analyze, organize, and convert information into different forms (e.g., charts, graphs,
drawings, movement).
b. Create multimedia presentations to communicate information using resources such as
overhead projectors, computers, recorders, and other presentation software.
c. Integrate a variety of media (e.g., sound effects, mime, graphics, physical movement,
short video clip) into oral and written representations to enhance the message.
d. Use visual aids, media, and other technology to support oral presentations.
4. CC 6 – This will be coming up with the questions, determining what each person has to do and
carrying out these roles/tasks
a. Solve a problem or understand a task through group co-operation.
b. Define group roles using consensus to ensure task is understood and completed.
5. AR 1 – This will be filling in the sheet to say what you have got done, where do you need to go
next, and any problems/questions your group has.
a. Evaluate and modify own roles in group interactions in a variety of contexts.
b. Establish and use relevant criteria and relevant vocabulary to evaluate group process
and personal contributions and propose suggestions for development.
6. AR 2 – This will be the sheet rating your own and other group members contributions
a.
Use criteria to examine qualities of own and others’ work.
Project Team Contract
Project:
Members of Team:
Our Agreement
o We all promise to listen to each other’s ideas with respect
o We all promise to do our assignment work to the best of our ability
o We all promise to turn in our work on or before due dates
o We all promise to ask for help if we need it
o We all promise to share responsibility for our success and for our mistakes
o We all promise to turn in work that is our own
o We all promise to practice and implement the 7 C’s of group work
If someone in our group breaks one or more of our rules, the group has the right to call a meeting and
ask the person to follow the rules. If the person still breaks one or more of our rules, we have the right
to approach a teacher about the behavior and a meeting will be set up at this point.
Date:__________________________________________
Team member signatures:
_____________________________________________
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The Jobs
Every member in a team has a set of skills. Fill in the chart to decide which member of your team should
have each of the following four jobs:
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Name
Coach (who is responsible for making sure everyone has a turn, everyone is listening,
and everyone does their job)
Manager (who is responsible for making sure the necessary information is handed in to
their teacher when required)
Statistician (who is responsible for making sure the booklet is filled in with all
information needed)
Pep Squad (who is responsible for making sure that everyone follows the 7 Cs)
Skills
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Job
Compromise – making 2 ideas into 1, fair for everyone, agree on way to do things
Cooperates – group of people working together to stay on task, getting along
Collaborate – work with your group members to come to an agreement, making ideas to learn,
brainstorm as a group
Commit – taking responsibility, put your heart into it, give your time, participating, doing your part
Communicate – people talking/listening and somehow understanding each other
Consideration – think of everyone, accepting opinions and ideas of everyone in the group, allowing
others to work and help
Coexist – bringing everyone's ideas together, being together in harmony
Task #1
With your group, develop questions that will guide your research over the next classes. Also be
considering possibilities for sharing your work with others as this will help in the information
you gather and what you do with it.
Questions:
(consider characters and qualities, ideas that are shared, common things found in stories,
connection to Indigenous culture etc.)
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Possibilities for presenting information to class:
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AR 1: End of Task Discussion – complete at the end of each task and submit
Project Name:
Date(s):
Members of Team:
Task #
During this time period we
had the following goals for
project work:
During this time period we
accomplished…
Our next steps are…
Our most important concerns,
problems or questions are…
This document should be reviewed and serve as a starting point to the next task.
Task #2 –
Part A: Determine a list of places to gather information from.
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Remember that each different place that you take information from needs to be added to
your list of resources at the end of this document.
Part B:
Divide your questions up and assign research topics to different people. Record the topics
assigned to each group member in the chart on the next page. The information found will be
recorded on the One Drive document that has been sent to you.
How to access the One Drive document:
1. Open your email and click on the link in your email.
2. Choose edit document on the top left and choose edit in Word App.
3. Be sure to put your name at the beginning of the information you add so it is clear who
is recording what information. Also color coding each person’s material is helpful. Do
this by clicking on the underscored capital A and choose your color.
Group Member
Topic to Research
Research
Completed
AR 1: End of Task Discussion – complete at the end of each task and submit
Project Name:
Date(s):
Members of Team:
Task #
During this time period we
had the following goals for
project work:
During this time period we
accomplished…
Our next steps are…
Our most important concerns,
problems or questions are…
This document should be reviewed and serve as a starting point to the next task.
Task #3 – Determine how you will share this information with the class. Go back to your list of
possibilities in Task #1 and decide on what fits best now that you have done some research.
Fill in the organizer below to develop all of the things needed for your choice of sharing and
attach who will be responsible for these areas. Task 4 will need to be considered in this.
To do.. by..
To do.. by..
Project Choice
To do.. by..
To do.. by..
Task #4 - Transferring information into graphs, charts, and/or maps AND/OR providing
graphics, video clips, and/or sound effects
What information could be shared through any of the above methods? Brainstorm a list and
consider what you have come across through your research.
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Narrow down your list and determine who will be creating/finding/incorporating these items.
Group Member
Topic for Visual Aid Creation/Sound Effects/
Video-Graphic Finding
Job Completed
AR 1: End of Task Discussion – complete at the end of each task and submit
Project Name:
Date(s):
Members of Team:
Task #
During this time period we
had the following goals for
project work:
During this time period we
accomplished…
Our next steps are…
Our most important concerns,
problems or questions are…
This document should be reviewed and serve as a starting point to the next task.
Task #5 – Putting it all together and Assess and Reflect on work done.
Practice, revise and check the finished product with the rubric to see if all parts have been completed
thoroughly.
Fill in the Assess and Reflect chart below. Each group member will complete this individually and hand it
in.
Name:__________________________________
Group
Members
Prepared and
ready to
work with
the team
AR 2
Can
Complete
communicate tasks on time
with team
members
Uses
feedback
from others
to improve
Feedback
Scoring Key:
Level 5
Level 4
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Exemplary
Proficient
Acceptable
Getting There
No evidence
Task #6: Present your information to the class.
Phases of
Project
CC 6
CC 3
CC 3
CC 5
CC 1
Criteria
Students can effectively in a group:
 Brainstorm key words and phrases
 Explore and create essential questions.
 Plan for my intended audience.
 Choose how to present my information.
 Use the criteria for the evaluation of this project.
 overcome roadblocks ( websites were not reliable,
difficulty finding websites, websites difficult to
read or navigate
Students can:
 Narrow down my information and can focus on
topic/essential question.
 understand who created the information found
and what the purpose of website is
 has used internet and books and other resources
to find information
Students can:
 document sources used ( websites, books, etc)
 sort through information
 choose reliable and accurate sources
 use jot notes to retrieve information that is in their
own words ( sticky notes, templates, etc)
Students can:
 choose how to best present the information
 choose a visual presentation that suits the topic.
 put the information into their own words by
making presentation notes ( cue cards, outline, jot
notes)
 quote/cite the information properly.
Students…
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have prepared and practiced the information and
presentation to share with others.
 Feel confident about their topic.
5
WOW
4
Yes,
and
3
Yes
2
Getting
There
1
Not Yet
List of Resources used
Title of Resource
Detailed information (ex. Website,
call number of book etc.)
Where found it
(internet, school
library, town library
etc)