ViscardoUPLANSummativeAssessment

 The feedback I received on my rationale was extremely helpful. In order to help //The Giver// become more relevant to my students, I created an activity that leads into the summative assessment for my students to complete. Students will be put into groups of 4-5 students and pretend they arrived on their own island. Students will work together to create a functional society that is seemingly perfect. Students will create rules and regulations that all group members agree on. The purpose of this is to have students think about what they believe makes a utopia. At the end of the book, students will write an essay comparing and contrasting their utopian island to the society in //The Giver//. The essay will allow me to determine if students understand the themes and implications of //The Giver.// Additionally, my big question was, "Is it possible to create a functional utopian society?" Instead of a yes/no answer, students will explore the workings of a society to determine if a functional utopian society is possible throughout the unit and will discuss this in a reflection paper.
 * //The Giver// Summative Assessment **