Summative Assessments:

Student will gradually be building their newspaper. They will be given the details of the
summative assessment the second day of the unit, to allow them to begin thinking about this
project as we learn, and as their due dates approach. At the end of the unit, they will be required
to defend their newspaper and the contents of their newspaper at a press conference to their own
class community.

Newspaper:

Directions:

You will create a newspaper for your summative assessment that demonstrates an all-inclusive
community. In your newspaper, you will incorporate various selections that we have already
done this year such as picture of an all-inclusive community, the letter you wrote as Roger, and a
narrative poem.

The Newspaper must include the following:

An original narrative poem about a topic of your choosing.
An illustration of what makes a community. This illustration must be created around the
concepts of unity, equality, identity, or differences.
A letter as Roger from Hughes Thank You Maam
.
Your Press Conference will be assessed on the following:
- Choose one aspect of their special edition newspaper and defend its literary relevance to
the press conference.
- Discusses how community, identity, unity, and equality are addresses in your newspaper,
and why they are addressed.
- Responds to questions about their newspaper from the audience in a way that
demonstrates deep engagement with and ownership of their newspaper.
- Listen carefully, and actively participates when they are present at a press conference
held by another classmate.
 Rubric for Letter and Poem

I will use the same rubric, but students will be given two separate grade.
4 3 2
Purpose/Focus clearly focuses and adequately focuses and somewhat maintains the shows
maintains the narrative, generally maintains the narrative, real or imagined, maint
real or imagined, narrative throughout with some minor or ima
drift in focus provid
Organization effectively creates a adequately creates a creates an inconsistent and uses
sequence of events, real or sequence of events, real or uneven sequence of events, seque
imagined, that unfolds imagined, that unfolds real or imagined, from imagi
naturally and logically from naturally and logically from beginning to end narrat
beginning to end beginning to end
Language and effectively uses adequately uses uses uses
o precise words and o precise words and o simplistic words and o
Vocabulary
phrases phrases phrases
o vivid descriptive o relevant descriptive o inconsistent
details details descriptive details o
o engaging sensory o appropriate sensory o limited sensory
language language language o
to convey a vivid picture of to convey a clear to convey a partial picture
the experiences and events picture of the of the experiences and to
experiences and events events c
e

For the final presentation day, students will receive credit a participation grade for actively
listening and participating in the writing assignment. It will be 5 points.