Performance Task Lesson Plan

December 7-15,
Teacher Name Miss Rawson Date
2016
Subject Area English Language Arts Grade 6P
Maniac Magee Final Performance
Topic Time 9 working periods
Task Working Period

1.2 Clarify and Extend

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to
explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
General Learner 2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
Outcome(s) 2.2 Respond to Texts
Taken from Alberta 2.3 Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Program of Studies 2.4 Create Original Text
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print,
and other media texts.
1.2 – Combine ideas:
 Students will: use talk, notes, personal writing and
representing, together with texts and the ideas of others, to
clarify and shape understanding
2.1 – Use prior knowledge
 Students will: apply knowledge of organizational structures
of oral, print and other media texts to assist with
constructing and confirming meaning
2.1 – Use comprehension strategies
Specific Learner  Students will: identify, and explain in own words, the
Outcome(s) interrelationship of the main ideas and supporting details
Taken from Alberta
Program of Studies 2.2 – Construct meaning from texts
 Students will: summarize oral, print or other media texts,
indicating the connections among events, characters and
settings
2.3 – Experiment with language
 Students will: alter words, forms and sentence patterns to
create new versions of texts for a variety of purposes
2.4 – Structure texts
 Students will: express the same ideas in different forms and
genres
 Students will:
Learning  Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the novel
Objectives  Explain features, traits, and facts of specific characters
What do you want your
students to learn?  Identify important events in the novel
 Identify various character relationships
The fake Facebook page will enable students to show various
character relationships, and describe a specific character in detail.
Assessment They will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the novel
How will you know your
students have learned? and represent important events in the correct order. I will be able
to assess all of this, when I assess their performance tasks on
December 15.
 Maniac Magee books
Materials  Computers
What resources will you
need?  Facebook page PowerPoint template
 Bookmarks

Introduce the project. Hand out the assignment description and

rubric.

Students must create a Facebook page for a character of their

choice in the novel. They must include everything outlined in the
description. Bookmarks should help students with finding
important events and characters and character traits.

Introduction Show students how to use the Facebook template by

demonstrating on the SmartBoard.

Instruct students that it is due on December 15 and that they will

be expected to work on their project every language arts up until
then.

Tell students to save it as lastname.firstname

Make this very clear.
Students will use every language arts class from December 7-15 as
a work period and will simply work on their project.
Body
Have checkpoints with students to ensure that they get it done on
time. Remind students of the due date.
Ask students about their progress.
Closure Remind students to save their work properly.
Put away laptops.

Reflection:
 Maniac Magee Performance Task

You will create a fake Facebook account for one of the

characters in Maniac Magee. I will provide you with a
template to use on PowerPoint, and you will change the
information needed.

You must include:

 The character’s name
 The town they live in
 Important interactions with other characters by having
other characters write on the wall of your character
with quotes from the book
 Status updates from the character about their thoughts
and feelings corresponding with events in the book

Anything you include on the Facebook page must be

supported by the novel. However, if the information is not
given, you may make it up. For example, we do not know the
day Maniac Magee was born, but we do know how old he is.
You may make up the month and day, but make sure that the
year is accurate.

You will be marked on spelling, grammar, punctuation,

capitalization, and organization, as well as, accuracy. Be sure
that your spelling and grammar is consistent with how the
character speaks in the book. For example, if a character says
“Do’im, Mars!” keep the quote accurate, regardless of spelling.

Be creative and have fun!

 Maniac Magee Facebook Page Rubric

Criteria 4 3 2 1 Insufficient
Excellent Proficient Basic Not Yet / Blank
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assessment of
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