Summative+Unit


 * Summative Unit Requirements –Winter, 2011**

**Length**: 4-6 weeks **Scope**: Addresses about 1/3 of high school content expectations and all four strands. **Rationale:** Explains how the unit addresses a school population (demographics) and grade level. Cites standards, major work studied, summative assessment. **Integration**: Lessons combine reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, **and** language study (not necessarily all at once). More Integrated Lessons

**Focus**: Employs one or more of the four models: Workshop, Theme Study, Genre Study or Student-centered Inquiry. Theme and inquiry models must include a longer core text, such as a novel or full-length non-fiction or play. **Lessons:** Includes ten lessons in structured format (Purpose, Preparation, Procedure and Assessment) and the remaining days in  narrative format (see examples in Preliminary Unit – E-Reserves) **Assessment:** Includes weekly formative assessment and one summative Assessment with rubric. **Resources:** Includes all curriculum materials of ten pages or less in the appendix (stories, poems, songs, print media) Submission Dates: 2/21 Unit Proposal (20) 3/ 7 Rationale (5) 3/14 First Ten days of unit (20) 3/21 Structured lesson integrating, reading, writing, language (5) 4/4 Completed Summative Unit (60)

 What are the obstacles to enjoyment and deep comprehension of the texts and activities?
__Allowance for Process__ (20)

How are large projects structured for continuous feedback before completion?
__Integration (language reading, writing)__ (10)

How is viewing (graphic and video) connected with reading, writing and speaking?
__Congruence of Assessment with Goals__ (20)