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Lesson 6

We will participate in a class review of our interpretations of Animal Farm through an exhibition of our cover design poster boards.

Lesson Goals

  • Can I engage actively as a presenter and reviewer in a culminating class review of my interpretations of Animal Farm?

  • Can I reflect critically on my interpretations of Animal Farm and my learning in the unit?

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Activity 1: Discuss

We will learn about the gallery process for reviewing our final Culminating Task exhibit. We will then examine again the criteria for our Cover Design Proposals and discuss how we will use the Culminating Task Rating Form as we participate in the review.

Step 1

Follow along as your teacher explains how a gallery-style review of student exhibits works and what you will be doing as both an exhibitor and reviewer during this Culminating Task activity.

Note that you will be part of a review team and will have three roles during the review, which you and your team will rotate through as the review proceeds:

  1. Exhibitor: After posting your poster board exhibit in a designated part of the classroom, you will stand by it and use your design synopsis to explain your interpretation of Animal Farm, your claim and narrative, and your cover design choices when student reviewers come to your display.

  2. Reviewer: When you are a designated reviewer, you will move around the room and visit a designated set of exhibitors’ displays. You will ask good questions about the design and exhibit, then take notes so that you can use the Culminating Task Rating Form to rate each display you visit.

  3. Evaluator: After exhibiting and reviewing other students’ exhibits, you will use the rating form to do a self-evaluation and at least four peer evaluations for exhibits you have visited. These will be submitted to your teacher at the end of the review.

Step 2

Re-examine the Culminating Task Rating Form and its criteria that you will be using during the galley-style review. Ask questions about the criteria, organization, and use of the rating form to do self- and peer evaluations.

Note again that the front side of the form presents the eight criteria and a rating scale (E-M-B) and that the back side of the form includes a place to rate the overall design and to add comments about it.

You will need at least five copies of the form so that you can do a self-evaluation and four evaluations of other students.

Activity 2: Present – Discuss – Write

We will conduct a gallery-style review, moving around the classroom and through the three roles of exhibitor, reviewer, and evaluator to see and assess what other students have done in their responses to reading Animal Farm.

Step 1

As designated by your teacher, join one of the three review groups to start the gallery review:

  1. Exhibitors

  2. Reviewers

  3. Evaluators

During the review, you will rotate through these three roles. If you are starting out as an evaluator, your teacher may give you specific instructions about what to do in preparation while you wait to become an exhibitor.

Step 2

Conduct the review, taking on your designated role for each of the three phases of the review.

When you are an exhibitor, remember to use the ideas in your final design synopsis to introduce and explain your exhibit.

When you are a reviewer, examine each exhibitor’s display closely, noting the relationships among the following:

  • the posted claim about the lasting meaning of Animal Farm

  • the excerpt from the first-person narrative

  • the cover design intended to communicate the interpretive claim and complement the narrative

Ask good questions and take notes about what you see.

When you are an evaluator, use the Culminating Task Rating Form to rate each exhibit assigned to you as follows: E (exceeds), M (meets), or B (below) in each of the criteria areas.

Then make a summary rating of E, M, or B for your overall evaluation of the exhibit and specifically the cover design that is its centerpiece. Add a final overall comment about the design.

Activity 3: Discuss

We will engage in a final discussion about what we have observed and learned through the gallery-style review.

Step 1

As time allows, join in a final class discussion about the review and what you have learned in the unit, considering these questions:

  1. Overall, what have you noticed about the exhibits and the cover designs and what they communicate about Animal Farm?

  2. What has stood out to you as most interesting about the designs and exhibits?

  3. How has putting together your own design and exhibit, then examining the exhibits of other students, enhanced your understanding of Animal Farm?

  4. What are your comments about gallery-style activities as a way to display and discuss your work and to learn from other students?

Step 2

Submit your poster board exhibit and the self- and peer evaluations you have done to your teacher for final grading.