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=**Writing the Personal Narrative ****Four Types of Evidence **=



Types of Evidence Performance Tasks


 * The lesson under Unit Di by Readiness gives students the opportunity to face adult issues and problems in that it asks them to work as a group to write a story. Adults in the workplace must cooperate on a daily basis to accomplish a task. In addition, students are given a real-world opportunities with a specific audience - that of Scholastic.com. Students will be publishing their work for those editors of Scholastic.
 * The multi-staged products under Unit Di by Learning Profile since the students must write the draft of their personal narrative three different times, improving in detail each time. For each of the nine tasks (students choose only three), students are asked to address an identified audience and express a specific purpose with enough opportunity to personalize their task. Each audience and purpose is specified in the directions, yet it the activity provides creativity to be found by each student.

Academic Prompts
 * An example of an Open-Response Question with no one right answer may be found under Unit Di Other Evidence Students must give a defense, providing reasons and evidence to back up the premise of their answer, which is assessed state guidelines.
 * The prompts used for Unit Di by Process are guided by "Power Verbs," which ask students to answer with explanation or evidence.

__Quiz and Test Items __ __
 * Although writing calls upon the writer to develop and demonstrate their writing style, which is unique to that person's ideas and knowledge on writing, the activity used in Unit Di by Readiness asks for a specific performance.
 * Unit Other Evidence also lists examples of assessment.

Informal Checks for Understanding __ 
 * Informal and ongoing assessments are evident under Unit Di Other Evidence through performance tasks, such as journal entries, exit slips and review questions, and academic prompts, such as Open-Response Questions.
 * During the writing process, students are asked to self-assess themselves and reflect upon their own writing, such explanations and artifacts for these activities can be found under Unit Self-Assessment & Reflection These are typically given participation points for completion instead of an academic grade since their primary use is to inform the teacher how well the students are conducting their writing.