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Lesson 5

We will write reflections about our skills and how our portfolio artifacts will help us progress toward our selected postsecondary pathway.

Lesson Goals

Reading and Knowledge

  • Conduct Research: How well do I explore a variety of credible sources to answer questions or solve problems using an organized and dynamic process of inquiry?
  • Evaluate Information: How well do I evaluate the relevance and credibility of the information, ideas, evidence, and reasoning presented in texts?
  • Develop Ideas: How well do I use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual or multimedia elements to support and elaborate coherent and logical narratives, explanations, and arguments?

Writing

  • Gather and Organize Evidence: How well do I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence to demonstrate an understanding of texts and topics, support claims, and develop ideas?
  • Form Claims: How well do I develop and clearly communicate meaningful and defensible claims that represent valid, evidence-based analysis?
  • Use Conventions to Produce Clear Writing: How well do I apply correct and effective syntax, usage, mechanics, and spelling to communicate ideas and achieve the intended purposes?
  • Organize Ideas: How well do I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to establish coherent, logical, and well-developed narratives, explanations, and arguments?
  • Develop Ideas: How well do I use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to support and elaborate on coherent and logical narratives, explanations, and arguments?

Texts

There are no texts for this Lesson.

Materials

Tools

Question Sets

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Discuss – Read

We will review the section 3 diagnostic prompt and the requirements of the response.

Step 1

Review the self-assigned homework note that you turned in at the end of the last lesson. Individually, respond to the following questions:

  1. Have you dedicated an adequate amount of time to your portfolio to be successful? Why or why not?

  2. How did you hold yourself accountable? And if you did not hold yourself accountable, how might you in the future?

Share your responses with your pathway group.

Step 2

Review the Section 3 Diagnostic Checklist. Ask your teacher any clarifying questions.

Review your Vocabulary Journal and identify at least five terms you plan to use in your response to the Section 3 Diagnostic.

Review your Mentor Sentence Journal. Identify a writing technique that you plan to use in your response.

Activity 2: Write

We will draft a response to the section 3 diagnostic prompt.

Draft a response to the Section 3 Diagnostic. Be sure to fully answer the questions and address the bulleted criteria found in the prompt.

Activity 3: Discuss

We will close out by discussing our successes and challenges in small groups and then as a class.

Step 1

Meet with your pathway team members. Use the following questions to guide your small group discussion:

  1. What challenges did you experience while composing your reflection?

  2. What successes did you experience while writing?

  3. What are you most proud of in your reflection?

Step 2

Share what you discussed in your pathway teams.

If you did not complete your reflection, complete it as homework.

Activity 4: Write

We will assess how prepared we are for the Culminating Task.

Step 1

Take out your Culminating Task Progress Tracker. Think about all you have learned and done during this unit so far. Evaluate your skills and knowledge by answering the following questions:

  1. How prepared are you to succeed on the Culminating Task?

  2. What do you need to know and learn to do to succeed?

Step 2

Review the Central Question of the unit:

How can I prepare for life after high school?

Consider the following questions:

  1. What new knowledge do you have in relation to the Central Question?

  2. What are you still curious about in relation to the Central Question?

  3. What is the relationship between the Central Question and the texts you have read so far? How do the texts shed light on the Central Question? How does the Central Question help you understand the texts?

  4. How has your response to the Central Question evolved, deepened, or changed?

In your Learning Log, write your response to Question 4.