CHY4C


 * World History: The West and the World, College Preparation, Grade 12**

//**Group members:**// ** Cathy Humes **, ** Julia Thiessen **//**,**// ** Rose Lipton **


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COMPLETED DOCUMENTS:

Hi ladies,

I hope all is well. I am attaching an updated version of the culminating activity process sheets, as well as updated versions of Rose's foundations doc and her culminating activity doc. See below.

Cheers, Cathy

Hi ladies, I made some changes to the fishbone, calendar, and unit 3 process sheet documents, so I have uploaded the latest versions for you here. Usha confirmed for me that the calendar did not need to have the formative assessment for every unit, only for our chosen unit - just in case you were wondering. I have also put together the process sheets for the course culminating activity, which I have also uploaded. Please let me know if you have any feedback or would like any changes made. And please let me know if I can help with anything else! Cheers! Cathy

Cathy, I can now answer your question! I think we meant to have the process sheet check during the movie. While students watch, the teacher circulates and perhaps speaks with students briefly one on one. That makes so much more sense. That's why I couldn't remember what it had to do with the lesson on Germany. Anyway. I'm just finishing up, and putting the process sheets together with the rubric to make a finished Unit 3 Culminating Activity document.

Ok, should I change the process sheet check to the movie date, then? Or should the sheets still be collected at the end of the Germany lesson and then I can indicate that during the movie there will be one-on-one conferencing about process sheets?

Just added the task sheet for the culminating activities - most of the time i just doubled the requirements time wise/page number wise....feel free to tweak any of those specific decisions. Any feedback you have is great, im moore than happy to make adjustments, or Julia you're welcome to make changes directly to the document when you put it together.  __Course:__

A summary of the following discussion:

__**Enduring Understandings:**__

1. History is constructed by human beings, and we can participate in that construction.

2. Contemporary society has been shaped by long-term social forces.

3. These same forces have excluded a whole range of voices/ideas/peoples.

Very well done - nicely framed, important EUs


 * __Critical Questions:__**

1. What is the most significant difference between "the West" and "the World"?

2. What groups or peoples have benefited most throughout the course history?

3. What beliefs, philosophies and ideologies have had the most significant impact on the present day?

Well crafted critical questions.


 * __Historical Thinking:__**

Evidence and Interpretation - Students will find and assess historical documents.

Continuity and Change - Students will challenge the unity of our historical narrative by recognizing that change does not always move us in one direction.

Historical Perspective Taking - Students will learn to empathize with rather than simply judge those who have lived and thought very differently than we do now - Students will learn to formulate alternative perspectives and arguments on some of the key events in Western history.

Nicely framed in terms of what students will do.

__**General Skills:**__

1. Students will learn to be critically thoughtful readers through the use of pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading strategies.

2. Students will cultivate inquisitiveness, open-mindedness, empathy and attention to detail.

3. Students will practice phrasing questions, expressing ideas, and constructing arguments.

=Unit Plan:= Hi both, Here is the updated assessment file that Julia worked on this weekend. Sorry for the delay in posting.

Cathy and I spent three hours banging out this unit outline. It scaffolds all the research and performative tasks. We haven't thought of a movie, yet, so if there are gaps in our history, we might fill them in there.

Looks amazing! I think all the formative assessment checks are well placed and the tasks also look like perfect prep for our summative. How would you feel about doing Shelley's Frankenstein (the one directed by kenneth branaugh) for the movie? The timing is right and it deals with issues of technology, modernity, etc. that would transition nicely into the next section/unit. Awesome! Perfect. =__Summative Assessment Plan: Building Block 2__=

Assignment pieces:
Hi ladies, I have attached my first go at the process sheets for the unit summative. Please take a look and let me know what you think. One thing I was not sure about was whether the research notes should be more scaffolded... Hopefully you'll see what I mean. Rose - I think your assessment sheets look amazing! I made a few minute changes and have re-attached my updated version here. Also, I was wondering if the art presentation should be one period, or if it should be the same length as the salon (20-30 minutes)? Julia - I think the rubric looks great! Cheers! Cathy

Here's the rubric for the Culminating Activity. I divided it into process (which evaluates topic and question formation, research notes, annotated bibliography, and peer assessment) and product. Please note the Thinking and Application sections for the product - I think they may need some more fleshing out. I have attached the most recent draft version of my assessment sheets, I'd really love some feedback from you ladies or to see your additions. Feel free to download this version, make changes and reupload it. Just thought I should put up something to work from as soon as I had it!

(Also I'm happy to keep going and do the "bumped up" versions of these assignments as well, but I'd like to get some 'formative feedback' from you before i go to that step just to make sure we're all on the right track. Also Julia I wouldnt mind if you could add in the peer assessment component to the research portfolio part of this assignment, since I think may be a little clearer on the requirements to that than I am)

The only real difference I imagined for the unit 3 rubric was to scrap the peer evaluation bit and decrease the number of sources needed. What do you think?

a) achievement chart categories

- all will be represented in each unit - equally weighted - Why? All valuable, culminating activity involves all combined so this scaffolds that in along the way, allows for D.I. in every unit by not weighting one type of learning over another

b) determining grade //This is our working plan of action however we still require more thinking on this to figure out in practical// - Most consistent, more recent is conducive to our grading system because we are constantly evaluating all achievement categories in every unit - therefore we would be more likely to weight the **Mode** , with an emphasis on **more recent performance**  so long as that accurately gauges what a student can do by the end of the class.

c) Units //Based on our course’s emphasis on decentering “Western history” we have chosen to group our time periods based solely on chronology as opposed to an events-based breakdown because these events only occurred in the Western world and do not define what// __//history is//__ //. The only exception will be 1914, which considering the widespread implications of the first world war - is signifiant enough that we felt warranted special emphasis.// Sound rationale. Good idea.

- chronological units, 4 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 1: 1600-1700 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 2: 1700-1800 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 3: 1800-1914 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 4: 1914-present

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">d)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">30%

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research Portfolio - Handed in and assessed as formative (a more in depth assessment based on a new perspective, added criteria)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expanded criteria based on 1-4 to encompass a more social justice/critical perspective

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1- current movie (movie review/critique, research component, why is this presented this way? trace the issue) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2- tracing an issue visually w/a world map <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3- Photo/artifact collection CURATE A MUSEUM! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4- contemporary political/social leaders but they have to defend their arguments using HISTORICAL material over the last 400 years. Great tasks - nice differentiation of assessment methods. (note: are these meant to match the 4 choices below or are they supposed to be different?)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">70%:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of each unit, students will be given the opportunity to choose 1 of 4 activities. They will have received these activities on the first day and will not be able to repeat the same activity twice. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Movie Review: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//written. individual.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Requires research portfolio element (annotated biblio, notes, graphic organizer) - which is handed in earlier in the unit as a formative assessment piece <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- answers questions directly, who is excluded, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Illustrated Map: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//visual. individual// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Mapping trade routes, ideologies, exchange of ideas, connections. Includes research portfolio element. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- encourages connections btwn western and non-western world <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Artistic Movement Presentation: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//visual and presentation// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//group project.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Present on an artistic movement within your time period. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Salon: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//group project. presentation// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Issue-based discussion, everyone has an individual character, choose from a selected group of topics of conversation. Variety of perspectives represented in the group. Use biographical info to make your claims. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But how will they choose this one if everyone in the group needs to play a role? Wouldn't this one have to be an assignment that each student has in the same unit? Maybe I just need a better sense.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ROUGH NOTES

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FORMATIVE: RESEARCH SKILLS

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 1: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- guiding students to reliable sources <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- students formulate their own questions but not their own topics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- reading/research for content <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- NOT topic choosing, source choosing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- critical reading of sources, not finding them <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- practice formulating topics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- choose own sources <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- write an annotated bibliography <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FORMATIVE: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 1: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- literacy/comprehension <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- empathy, open mindedness, questioning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- building arguments <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit 4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- attn to detail peer assessment

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FIRST TWO WEEKS: PLANNING

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**First two weeks** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Focus on contemporary issues: which social forces <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- economic <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- political <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- cultural <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- social/social movements

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Cultural (Artistic Movement Presentation): bring in a contemporary work of art to discuss: share 3 details to the work of art, how its significant in contemporary society, sharing circle developing criteria for a good presentation, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Economic (Map modelling): Based on info gained in class, trace a product/import/good and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Social (Movie review): Journal responses, develop criteria <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Political (Salon modelling): political debate based on in-class discussion and facts, modelled first and then demonstrated by students

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Movie Review: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//written. individual.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Requires research portfolio element (annotated biblio, notes, graphic organizer) - which is handed in earlier in the unit as a formative assessment piece <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- answers questions directly, who is excluded, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Illustrated Map: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//visual. individual// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Mapping trade routes, ideologies, exchange of ideas, connections. Includes research portfolio element. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- encourages connections btwn western and non-western world <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Artistic Movement Presentation: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//visual and presentation// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//group project.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Present on an artistic movement within your time period. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4)