1) Students will have an understanding of the Great Depression and the life of a migrant worker
- Mastery
- define, explain, summarize, describe, infer (Bloom)
2) Students will relate characters from Of Mice and Men to the historical time period of The Great Depression and life as a migrant worker
- Mastery
- apply, identify, list, explain, differentiate (Bloom)
3)Students will empathize with the character George from the novel to have a better understanding of his character
- Developmental
- describe, defend, differentiate, share, alter (Krothwohl)
4) Students will understand the concept of prejudice (gender, race and physical/mental disabilities) and how prejudice affects how one is viewed in society
- Developmental
- discover, explain, predict (Bloom)
relate, display, describe (Krathwohl)
5) Students will closely examine the characters from OMM and determine which characters are experiencing prejudice based on either their race, gender or physical/mental disability
- Mastery
- examine, identify, categorize, discover, appraise (Bloom)
6) Students will write a four paragraph essay to compare and contrast two characters from OMM who struggle based on their experiences with prejudices
- Developmental
- compare, contrast, investigate, examine, explain, compile (Bloom)
7) Students will display their full understanding of the characters and events within OMM through the completion of a RAFT exercise
- Mastery
- investigate, examine, tell, describe, compute, conclude (Bloom)
Your learning targets are very clear. I can see activities that would fit into them all and also feel a sense of cohesiveness where they tie into one another.
ReplyDeleteI like your learning target 5. It is definitely of higher level thinking and makes students use basic skills/level of understanding and/or application to answer the question. I agree that the target is certainly developmental. Also, I like that you used not only "compare" and "contrast" ask verbs to describe the target. This allows more room for you to create assessments that are not only just compare and contrast, which is what we typically see on assessments. I hope this makes sense.
ReplyDeleteGood job. One criticism: Remove "write a four paragraph essay" from target #6. The "compare and contrast" suffices for a learning targeted. You may choose to have several different assessment tasks aimed at that one target; don't limit yourself so soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to disagree slightly with Jason (Mahalo). Though he's not wrong to think you need more specificity, I can see how what you provide here would be sufficient for your needs (just not for Jason's).
ReplyDeleteI will say, having worked through some pretty complex shapes in CS courses, Target 2 is *not* mastery.
Otherwise, good work.