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Grade 6: Module 1: Unit 3: Lesson 4
RI.6.2 – Closing and Assessment A: Students reflect on their learning using the Track Progress: Read, Understand, and Explain a New Text recording form. This exercise is meant to provide them with time to formally keep track of and reflect on their own learning. This self-reflection supports metacognition and pride in work and learning.
Opportunities to Extend Learning
For the assessment, students read about Helios, the Greek god of the sun. Students may be curious to research solar deities in other cultures, such as Bast (Egypt) or Surya (Buddhism).
Invite students to look up other words with the root word helios and make connections between the meaning of those words and the Helios myth.
Use the assessment text to practice other Language standards, such as identifying the connotation of words in the text (L.6.5c).
How It Builds on Previous Work
In the first half of this unit, students read Greek myths and determined main ideas and key details from Greek myths. They synthesized these details into e ective and unbiased summaries. This lesson continues those routines in an assessment.
Support All Students
If students receive accommodations for assessments, communicate with the cooperating service providers regarding the practices of instruction in use during this study as well as the goals of the assessment.
Some students may need the text read aloud before they work on the questions. Invite students who require this to sit in a group away from the rest of the students, so as not to be distracting.
Forsomestudents,thisassessmentmayrequiremorethanthe25minutesallotted.Provide time over multiple days if necessary.
Assessment Guidance
Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: “Helios” (student and teacher version) are included in the Assessment Overview and Resources.
Whenassessingandprovidingfeedbackonthisassessment,usetheanswerkeyandsample student responses (see Assessment Overview and Resources) to help complete students’ Track Progress recording form.
In this assessment, students are tracking progress toward the following anchor standards:
– R.1: By the end of Grade 12, I will be able to: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
– RI.6.2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
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