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7th Grade Medieval History End-of-Year History Writing Task In the 7th Grade Medieval History Enf-of-Year History Writing Task students will respond to the question "which two reasons best explain the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec Empire, to the Spanish?". They will write an essay using primary and secondary sources as evidence to support their argument. This task includes resources to help students write their introduction, learn vocabulary, evaluate sources and evidence, plan their essay, develop their claim, and an argumentative writing checklist. This task also includes:
The Oakland Unified School Districted has designed this history assessment to support the literacy goals of the Common Core State Standards. |
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7th Grade Medieval History Mid-Year History Writing Task In the 7th Grade Medieval History Mid-Year History Writing Task students will respond to the question "was the Examination System during the Song Dynasty in China an effective way for the emperor to select high quality government official?". They will write an essay using primary and secondary sources and photographic evidence to support their argument. This task includes resources to help students write their introduction, evaluate sources and evidence, plan their essay, develop their claim, and an argumentative writing checklist. This task also includes:
The Oakland Unified School Districted has designed this history assessment to support the literacy goals of the Common Core State Standards. |
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7th Grade Medieval History West African Empires Assessment In the 7th Grade Medieval History West African Empires Assessment from 2007-2008, students will address the question "Which factor, geography or Islam, contributed more to the development of states, towns, and trade in the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai between the 10th and 15th centuries?”. The will write an essay using primary and secondary sources as their evidence. This task includes sources with comprehension questions, a geography lesson, a drawing conclusions activity, an essay outline, and a fill in the black introduction paragraph. |
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9 x 7 The 9 x 7 task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of multiplication strategies. In this task students will explain how they would figure out a multiplication problem using other multiplication facts. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two equation cards This task is a part of the Number & Algebra task series from 2005. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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A Better Story The A Better Story task allows students to demonstrate their ability to make a story more vivid and exciting. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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A Bit of a Lemon The A Bit of a Lemon task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate design. Students will watch a short video of someone using four different types of lemon squeezers and think about and answer questions about the things that make a lemon squeezer work well. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video on a laptop computer and four pictures. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2008. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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A Day I'll Never Forget The A Day I'll Never Forget task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a story about a personal event. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, four individual answer sheets, four Spell Writes, four red pens, and a time. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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A Good Team Member The A Good Team Member task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the qualities of a good team member. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a recording book. This task is a part of the Social Organization task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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A Hot Drink The A Hot Drink task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of body care and treatment of injury. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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A Human Rights Timeline In this task, students will research and use court cases to explore the shaping of Canadian human rights. This task includes: |
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