UNIT 1:
Evaluating Multiple Perspectives: What Is My Identity and How Do I Understand Others’ Perspectives Through Their Identity
BIG IDEA 1: Question and Explore
LO 1.1A Contextualizing and Identifying the complexities of a problem or issue.
LO 1.1B Posing questions and seeking out answers that reflect multiple, divergent, or contradictory perspectives
LO 1.2A Retrieving, questioning, organizing, and using prior knowledge about a topic.
LO 1.3A Accessing and managing information using effective strategies,
BIG IDEA 2: Understand and Analyze Arguments
LO 2.1A Employing appropriate reading strategies and reading critically for a specific purpose
LO 2.1B Summarizing and explaining a text’s main idea or aim while avoiding faulty generalizations and oversimplification.
BIG IDEA 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
LO 3.1A Identifying, comparing, and interpreting multiple perspectives on or argument about an issue.
LO 3.2A Evaluating objections, implications, and limitations of alternate, opposing, or competing perspectives or arguments.
BIG IDEA 4: Synthesize Ideas
LO 4.1A Formulating a well-reasoned argument, taking the complexities of the problem or issues into consideration.
BIG IDEA 5: Team, Transform, Transmit
LO 5.1A Planning and producing a cohesive academic paper, considering audience, context, and purpose.
LO 5.1C Communicating information through appropriate media using effective techniques of design.
LO 5.1E Engaging an audience by employing effective techniques of delivery or performance.
LO 5.2A Providing individual contributions to overall collaborative effort to accomplish a task or goal.
LO 5.3A Reflecting on and revising their own writing, thinking, and creative processes.
ASSESSMENTS:
Individual Assessment – Exploring My Identity Through Lenses Essay
*Independently, students will explore their own identity through three teacher assigned lenses and one lens of their choice. Students are expected to communicate the definition of their individual identity through formal essay format. *Prep for IWA*
Group Assessment – Anticipating Others’ Perspectives Through Lenses -Group Analysis and Presentation
*In groups, students will work together through a source packet of various texts to determine each speakers’ perspective on an assigned, given issue. As a group, they must find a common lens through all given multiple perspectives, gather additional resources, and come up with a solution to the assigned, given issue. Team members will create a combined team presentation that summarizes their findings and solution. *Prep for TMPD*
Individual Assessment – Artwork Analysis Presentation
Independently, students will analyze a student chosen piece of artwork through a lens from their previous essay, “Exploring My Identity Through Lenses”. (S)He will discuss how that lens applies to her/him specifically, and then apply that same lens to the artists’ perspective through the artwork. This 1-2 minute presentation is to be completed using one Google Slide and animation. *Prep for IMP*
Mrs. Marcinkus 