The purpose of this bridge to practice is for you to use a high-level comprehension task and a high-level analysis task during Unit 3 of the curriculum as a Test of Change.

To complete this bridge to practice, do the following:

• Continue to work with your improvement team to draft a high-level comprehension task in response to a text from Unit 3 of the curriculum.

• Once you've drafted your comprehension task, work with your team to review the standards and the text to understand how the text will support a high-level analysis task. You might ask yourselves, "How does the author use language in ways that are worth looking at and talking about? How does looking at the author's use of language help students develop a deeper understanding of the ideas in the text?"

• Work with your team to draft an analysis task that asks students to engage in student-centered routines to respond to a high-level analysis question. You might consider using the tasks you engaged in today as a template for the work that you design

• Then, work with your team to decide how you’ll study the enactment of the task (will you look at student work? Will you use exit slips?).

• Finally, use your task with students and then come back together with your improvement team to decide next steps (Adapt, Adopt, Abandon!). Make sure that you follow the sequence of tasks – students’ first reading of a text should be the comprehension task. The analysis task will be used during students’ second engagement with the text under study.

Alternatively, you might use the “My Ceremony for the Taking” comprehension and analysis task that you engaged in today as your Test of Change. Please be prepared to share how this work went when we meet together at the end of January.

Team Coordinators, we will be checking in together on December 17th, so please be sure you can talk about how the work is going with this test of change.

If you have questions about this work, please feel free to reach out to Sara or your cluster lead.