Student’s Name ________________________________________ Date ____________________________
Project Overview
Each month students complete a long-term project. September’s project,
“California! Coming to a New Land,” taught students about narrative writing in a Social
Studies context: the regions and ancient people of California.
See the project at: dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/dixieschool/classrooms/Rechtfertig/newland.htm
Students learned and practiced the following skills:
• Understanding the basics of culture
• Learning about the four main California regions
• Taking notes on graphic organizers to plan what they will write .
• Providing a context to enable the reader to imagine another world
• Writing ideas in a good sequence.
• Including vivid descriptive language and sensory details that helped the reader to
visualize the events or experiences.
• Varying sentence structure with statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
Also, using both short and longer sentences.
• Learning to develop and write multiple-paragraph compositions
• Learning to ask questions to gather information not previously known
• Proofreading compositions to find and correct their own mistakes
• Pacing themselves to finish a project on time
• Organizing a project into a final product, and sharing it with classmates
• Understanding and using a rubric to assess their progress
Assessment
Narrative Content Score _______
4 = Advanced (A)
3 = Proficient (B)
2 = Basic (C)
1 = Below Basic (D or Not Passing)
_____ Student completed all parts of the the project on time.
_____ Student organized the project into a final product.
Project Grade ________
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