Summative Extension Assessments Connected to "The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin" resource created by Samantha Gibson (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- The Fire Next Time - Lesson Plan Created by Samantha Gibson
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- Learning goals:
- evaluate reliability of sources, understand the research process, understand writing as a recursive process, collaborate effectively with partners, understand elements of persuasion, understand the rhetorical situation
- Keywords:
- research, rhetoric, persuasion, collaboration, writing, Group Presentations
- Alignment:
- VA.ELA.10.8, VA.ELA.10.1.g, VA.ELA.10.2.c
- Collaborative Extension - Summative Presentation
- Individual Written Extension - Research Paper
Summary
This resource is intended as a Summative Extension activity to the resource created by Samantha Gibson entitled "The Fire Next Time." The original source contains a detailed lesson plan that incorporates primary source documents in order to compare and contrast leading figures of the Civil Rights movement. This extension activity is intended to provide a synthesis activity that asks students to consider and explore a modern-day example of social protest and evaluate various approaches to the same issue. Optional extension activities include a collaborative persuasive presentation that requires research and rhetoric skills to be successful and/or an individual written research paper.