RogerWQT

=G.R.A.S.P.S= =Understanding(s)=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)**
 * Goal: For students to describe, relate, and express the reasoning behind the decisions of the past 30 years.**
 * Role: Final project - ties everything together.**
 * Audience: Historians, newscasters.**
 * Situation: A newscast or documentary covering the past 30 years in American history.**
 * Product/Presentation: A movie that meets the standards provided below.**
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation): Standards provided by MLR. Research accuracy, graphics, speech, duration, posture/eye contact.**
 * Understanding 1:

Understanding 2: || • MLR SS E-History E-1 Grade 9-12

The reasoning, causes, and effects of events for the past 30 years, primarily relating to the United States. ||

=Introduction= //(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)//

=Task= Students will take the role of a junior reporter who has been given the task of summarizing the events of the past 30 years. Students can do this by creating either a picture or movie compilation (or a combination of both). Product with have to be supplemented with either a verbal live presentation or a narration included in the movie. In order to get an accurate picture of the past three decades, students will have to include scenes from at least three of the big ideas. The selection of which big ideas students want to use is up to them. The final product will be a sampling of a full-sized product, at approximately five minutes. Students will be addressing news agencies and historians, as this is a product that they're looking to sell.

=Conclusion= //(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)//