Today, I'm working in a classroom where the teacher is asking students to begin a project that will require students to compose an original work that includes all of the literary techniques they have studied throughout their school careers. We gathered award winning children's literature texts and spread them around the room. After perusing the covers, students selected a text that called to them and then completed initial analysis of the features of children's literature.
The teacher wanted to make sure that students began with their own reactions to the books, but also add more sophisticated responses after consulting reference materials.
Here's the assignment she posted in google classroom.
But I think the most important part of the assignment was creating an assignment sample that gave students an idea - a model - of what they needed to produce. As the students worked in the first period class, the teacher worked alongside a student that to produce an example that showed the criteria she was looking for her grading criteria.
Click on the link to see the model. I just can't say enough about how clarity with success criteria and performances makes a critical difference for student mastery of objectives. We can't really ask them to be successful with tasks they have never read or seen in the real world!
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