Product and Assessing My Learning Process
Self-evaluation
1. Reflect. Ask the questions aloud and encourage students to reflect upon the things they learned by working on the activities of this unit. Invite them to share their answers with the class. 2. Look through the unit to recall what you have learned to learn, to know, and to do. Give students some time to leaf through the pages of the unit so they can recognize the achievements they attained while working on each of the activities. Encourage them to share them with their classmates. 3. In your notebook, write what you think was difficult to achieve. Check the tips given at the end of each lesson and explain how they may help you improve. Invite students to reread the tips given at the end of each lesson and reflect on how these tips may help them to improve. Have them write their conclusions in their notebook. Make sure to record which students need help so that you may design strategies to support them. What Do I Know About Customs Around the World? Finally, organize the class into small teams and read the title of the unit aloud: What Do I Know About Customs Around the World? Give them a few minutes to discuss their answers considering what they learned in this unit. Finally, ask one person from each team to share their answers with the rest of the class. Have them reflect that it is important to always respect the differences other cultures might have and to use similarities to establish links with them.
Comparison of Customs Based on Pictures Do the following activities: • Select relevant information to include in your presentation. • Check you are using appropriate expressions to compare and contrast. • Include at least one comparative or superlative. • Order your sentences using connectors. • Include expressions to begin and to end your presentation. • Prepare expressions to gain time, if necessary. • Rehearse using prosodic resources: volume, rhythm, tone, and diction. • Present your comparison to your class. Assessing my Learning Process Peer evaluation Use the rubric to evaluate another pair’s presentation.
Excellent
Good
Needs Improvement
All the expressions they used to compare and contrast were appropriate.
Some of the expressions they used to compare and contrast were appropriate. They use some of them appropriately, but they still need to practice.
They didn’t use expressions to compare and contrast.
Expressions
Use of prosodic resources: volume, rhythm, tone, and diction
They appropriately used the four of them.
They didn’t use them appropriately.
Self-evaluation 1 Reect.
• How do pictures help me explain dierent customs? • What did I learn by comparing and contrasting them?
2 Look through the unit to recall what you have learned to learn, to know, and to do. 3 In your notebook, write what you think was dicult to achieve. Check the tips given at the end of each lesson and explain how they may help you improve.
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Comparison of Customs Based on Pictures
In this session, students will prepare their oral presentations. Read aloud each of the steps on this page and have pairs perform the tasks. Monitor closely to provide help when required. Remember you always have the option to adapt the product to your class’s needs and interests. Assessing my Learning Process Peer evaluation Use the rubric to evaluate another pair’s presentation. Once all students have presented their comparisons, draw their attention to the rubric and have them read the statements included in it. Tell them they will exchange books with another pair to give peer assessment by circling the statements that best describe the way they presented. Encourage pairs to give oral feedback and to include reasons. Monitor to make sure all comments are respectful.
T112 112 Unit 8 • Activity Book p. 84
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