Section 4: Overview

Culminating Task

We will deliver our pathway presentations, respond to our classmates’ presentations, and write our reflective narratives.

• Lesson 1:

  We will present our pathway findings to our class.

• Lesson 2:

  We will begin writing our individual reflections of our group’s research process and our own reading, writing, collaborating, and presenting skills.

  We will individually write a multiparagraph reflective narrative to our teacher that describes our research process and explains our strengths and areas of growth as readers, writers, collaborators, and presenters.

• Lesson 3:

  We will revise our individual reflections of our groups’ research process and our own reading, writing, collaborating, and presenting skills.

  We will individually write a multiparagraph reflective narrative to our teacher that describes our research process and explains our strengths and areas of growth as readers, writers, collaborators, and presenters.

• Lesson 4:

  We will edit our individual reflections of our groups’ research process and our own reading, writing, collaborating, and presenting skills.

  We will individually write a multiparagraph reflective narrative to our teacher that describes our research process and explains our strengths and areas of growth as readers, writers, collaborators, and presenters.

• Lesson 5:

  We will finish the unit by engaging in a whole-class discussion about our current understanding of what it means to be an American. We also discuss Culminating Task topics that relate to the unit and identify possible pathways to explore for the Application Unit.

• Lesson 6:

  In a culminating activity, we share the knowledge we have gained and the connections we have made by reading our independent reading texts.