November 19th - 8 & 9

Pre-Work Video for November 19th

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Agenda


Pre-Work

Please complete Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 prior to the start of our Zoom meeting at 6:00.

Step 1: Test of Change Reflection

As a school team, please navigate to Jamboard and work together to add a slide that responds to the following questions:

  1. Where are you on your most recent test of change?

  2. How is it going? In other words, where are you finding success, and what has been challenging?

You might consider linking to any relevant documents (such as task sheets) or including images to help illustrate your test of change.

Step 2: Engaging in a Comprehension Task

Comprehension of "My Ceremony for Taking"

Please use the link to the left to navigate to OneNote and engage in the reading and annotation of the poem, "My Ceremony for Taking" by Lara Mann. Please engage in only Step 1 of the task sheet.

Step 3: Higher-Level and Lower-Level Analysis Tasks

03_MLK Tasks_019_1009_FM.pdf

Task Analysis Guide: "I Have A Dream"

Please review the Task Analysis Guide for "I Have a Dream." After you have reviewed the guide, please individually respond to the following questions:

  • What do you notice about the Analysis tasks?

  • What makes the Higher-Level Demand questions different from the Lower-Level Demand questions?

  • What do you notice about the tasks across the three categories?

Please post your thinking to the linked Padlet.

Sign-in Sheet

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Materials for Our Guided Work

02_General_ELATaskAnalysisGuide_2020_0729_FM.pdf

Task Analysis Guide

Sample Comprehension and Analysis Task

Sample Comprehension and Analysis Task

This document can be used as a template for creating your own task. Please be sure to make a copy before working in the document.

Bridge to Practice

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.


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