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Grade 4 Response Student Purpose Prompt Materials/Resources Constructed Response #1 To show what you know about story elements in the genre: Native American Legends What is the most important story element in Native American Legends? Why? Use evidence you have gathered from multiple texts and included on your graphic organizer. Story Elements Graphic Organizer Rubric 1-5) Constructed Response #2 To demonstrate understanding of how authors develop themes/messages through the characters in Native American Legends. What is a theme/message of our Native American Legends text? What key details about the character does the author use to convey, or make clear, the theme of Native American Legends? Thinking Map (To be completed and turned in with Constructed Response) Rubric (Steps 1-5) (Student scores his/her essay and turns in with CR) Constructed Response #3 To demonstrate understanding of how authors develop themes/messages through settings in Native American Legends. What is a theme/message of our Native American Legends text? What key details about the setting does the author use to communicate this theme/message of our text? Thinking Map (Completed and turned in with CR) Rubric (Steps 1-5) (Student scores his/her essay and turns in with CR) Constructed Response #4 To demonstrate understanding of how authors develop themes/messages through the plot of Native American Legends. What is the of our text? What key details about the plot does the author use to communicate the theme of our text? Thinking Map (Completed and turned in with CR) Rubric (Steps 1-5) (Student scores his/her essay and turns in with CR) Comparative Essay To write an argument/opinion based on a connection you’ve discovered between two Native American Legends texts. Choose literary element you want to compare. Compare how the authors of each text used that element to develop the theme of his/her Native American Legends text. Thinking Map for Comparative Essay Rubric (Do Not turn in with essay) Constructed Responses and Comparative Essays for Genre Study
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