The Tiger Rising Culminating TasksStephanie Dean

What is a Culminating Task?

A culminating activity should...

• be central to the purpose of the course or the unit and require students to think about important issues or questions; • be multifaceted, requiring a number of skills, different learning styles or mental intelligences, and assess more than one aspect of achievement; • be engaging and hold the interest of students over time;• use important content and meet many of the specific expectations of the curriculum guideline; • provide for clear assessment of student development with levels of achievement identified; • be authentic in nature or represent a real-life experience, role or application • provide opportunities for the teacher and student to monitor the process of development of the activity or project and assess (formative) the learning; • be described in advance to the students, including examples, timeline for development, process sequence, expectations, and formative and summative assessment.

The Tiger RisingCulminating Tasks

TaskStudents were asked to Read-Write-Talk several articles that relate to the novel.

Students completed a graphic organizer that compared similar topics within two texts.

Students were given several writing prompts that relate to the novel and the articles.

Students were asked to choose a side, gather information, and debate an issue.

ReasoningStudents are able to compare a fiction text with a non-fiction text.

Students are able to understand the concept of bullying and expand their schema so that they can recognize examples of bullying throughout the text.

Students are able to practice how to provide relevant evidence from both texts to support their opinions.

Students are able to form their own opinions. Students will communicate their arguments using formal language in an organized setting.

Read~Write~Talk

Bullies: What is Bullying

Paper Bullying Activity

Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part

BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)

Idk= I didn't know that

I= Infer (Make an Inference)

?= I wonder

!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or

THE ANSWERS

Gathering Similar

Information from Two

Different Texts

Precise information from the article helps student make connections.

Specific quote from the book that serves as an example of what the article stated.

Same topic

Writing Prompt

Based on the article Bullies: What is Bullying, do you feel that the Threemonger brothers are bullies? Use evidence from the article and The Tiger Rising to support your answer.

Use evidence based

terminology in response.

Give specific

examples from the

novel. Make sure it is relevant.

Read~Write~Talk

Zoochosis

**Debate!!**

Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part

BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)

Idk= I didn't know that

I= Infer (Make an Inference)

?= I wonder

!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or

THE ANSWERS

Writing Prompt

Put yourself in the tiger’s shoes from the novel The Tiger Rising. What is he thinking? How does he feel? Use what you have learned from the article Zoochosis to support your answer.

Cite your source to provide

evidence to support your

answerGive details from BOTH

texts to support your answer

Read~Write~Talk

Tigers Roar Back

**Tiger Documentary**

Code Your Reading =around numbers =vocabulary = I like this part

BK= Background Knowledge (Schema)

Idk= I didn't know that

I= Infer (Make an Inference)

?= I wonder

!= Wow! That's exciting!Underline Important Stuff or

THE ANSWERS

Writing Prompt

Based on the information that you learned in the article Tigers Roar Back, do you agree or disagree with Rob’s decisions to free the tiger? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Cite your source by giving

evidence from the text

Include your own thoughts

and opinions

Make inferences using the

information you have read