Alignment to Assessment Standards and Purpose of Lesson

• Opening A: Students review returned mid-unit assessments with feedback. The purpose of this is for students to have the opportunity to see how they performed in order to improve in their next assessment and to ask questions if they don’t understand the feedback.
• Work Time A: Students complete a task for the end of unit assessment: developing and finalizing the compare/contrast essay that they planned in Lesson 11 of Module 1, Unit 3 (RL.8.1, RL.8.9, RI.8.1, W.8.2, W.8.4, W.8.9a, W.8.10).
• W.8.2 – Closing and Assessment A: Students reflect on learning using the Track Progress: Informative Writing recording form. This exercise is meant to provide students time to formally keep track of and reflect on their own learning. This self-reflection supports metacognition, responsibility, and pride in work and learning
• In this lesson, the habit of character focus is on working to become an effective learner. The characteristic that students practice is perseverance. 

Opportunities to Extend Learning

• Have students write an additional essay independently to continue to practice the skills that have been scaffolded in this unit.
• Ask students to reflect on their growth or learning between the mid-unit assessment and the end of unit assessment, and ask students to create goals for the coming unit.

How It Builds on Previous Work

• In the second half of this unit, students have been analyzing a model and using their analysis to plan an informative essay. This lesson assesses those skills as students use their plans to compose a draft of their essays comparing and contrasting the original depiction of their monster in Latin American folklore and the modern depiction in their narratives about a scene in Summer of the Mariposas.

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.
• For some students, this assessment may require more than the 30 minutes allotted. Provide time over multiple days if necessary.
• Provide students with individual photocopies of anchor charts for use during the End of Unit Assessment, and encourage students to annotate it to help with processing and planning writing. ▲
• To set themselves up for success for the end of unit assessment, students need to rely on the detailed planning they have done across the unit and all they have learned by practicing compare and contrast writing. Before administering the assessment, activate prior knowledge by reviewing the Compare and Contrast Painted Essay® anchor chart together. ▲

Assessment Guidance

• Assessment materials (student copy, answer key, student exemplar, teacher checklist) are included in the Assessment download on this page.
• When assessing and providing feedback to students on this assessment, use the Informative Writing Checklist (see supporting materials) to complete the student Track Progress recording form. Make notes in the appropriate column for each criterion in a different color than student responses. There is also space provided to respond to student comments. 
• Save a copy of the scored essays to use as a baseline assessment. These pieces can be used to measure the progress of individual students throughout the year, as well as to identify common instructional needs in a class.
• In this assessment, students are tracking progress toward anchor standard W.2: “Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.”

Down the Road

• In the final two lessons of this module, students create a multimedia presentation explaining their narrative choices: modernizing a monster from Latino folklore and creating a new scene for Summer of the Mariposas with their modernized monster. Students copy their narratives and compare/contrast essays about the original and modernized depictions of their monster into the webpage software.