Totally 10 Projects: Mythology
Score 2 (20 percent of final grade)
Construct a family tree of Greek gods, goddess, mortals, and creatures.
• Illustrate a poster showing corresponding Greek and Roman gods and
goddess.
• Present an adventure of a god, goddess, or creature through storytelling.
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Score 4 (40 percent of final grade)
Make a chart comparing and contrasting a mythical character from another
culture to a Greek or Roman mythical character.
• Identify a contemporary superhero with characteristics of heroes from
mythology. Write a newspaper article describing how this hero has mythical
traits.
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Score 60 (60 percent of final grade)
Script an original dialogue between two mythical characters. Include
accurate and complete information about their characteristics and
adventures.
• Design an illustrated mystery booklet of mythical characters called “Who
Am I?” Include adventures as well as personal and family details as clues.
• Create a rap, jungle, or song to help people remember the names of mythical
characters, their characteristics, and one of their adventures.
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Totally 10 (100 percent of final grade)
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Create a mythical character for our 21st century. Write a character sketch to
identify your character’s personality, physical appearance, and powers.
Dramatize, do storytelling, make a video, or create an action comic book of
an original adventure. Include appropriate elements of mythological tales.
Diane Heacox. Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom, Free Spirit, 2002
Totally 10
A Differentiating Instructional Strategy
By Dr. Diane Heacox
Students choose activities at different levels of challenge and complexity.
Each task is given a score of 2, 4, 6, or 10. Students must select one project
or several that add up to a score of 10. The tasks differ in complexity as
follows.
Score 2
• Projects at knowledge, understanding, and/or application levels
• Accounts for 20 percent of final grade
Score 4
• Projects at application and/or analysis level
• Accounts for 40 percent of final grade
Score 6
• Projects at analysis, evaluation, and/or synthesis level
• Accounts for 60 percent of final grade
Score 10
• Projects at analysis, evaluation, and/or synthesis level
• Exhibits greater complexity, depth, or abstractness than Score 6 items
• A WOW projects that reflects rigor rather than simply more work
• Accounts for 100 percent of final grade
Diane Heacox. Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom, Free Spirit, 2002