Section 4: Overview

Culminating Task

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

• Lesson 1:

  We will revise and rehearse our presentations in order to be prepared for the Culminating Task.

• Lesson 2:

  We will present our Culminating Task and actively listen to and participate in the presentations of our classmates.

• Lesson 3:

  We will begin writing our individual reflections that describe our research processes and explain our strengths and areas of growth as readers, writers, collaborators, and presenters.

• Lesson 4:

  We will revise our individual reflective narratives.

• Lesson 5:

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

• Lesson 6:

  We will finish this unit by engaging in a whole-class discussion about change agents. We will also discuss the Culminating Task topics that relate to the unit and identify possible pathways to explore for the Application Unit.

• Lesson 7:

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