Conditional Statement Story If you give a geometry student a project… The purpose of this project is for you to see how reasoning (also known as cause and effect) “if-then” is used in our everyday lives. You will write a story along the lines of the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Your story should be written using statements “if-then” (the statement of one sentence should be the statement of the next sentence). The story “then” “if” must make sense. The opening hypothesis and the last conclusion must fit together to make a sentence (which makes sense). Your story must be made into a book with illustrations. You may draw pictures, or cut out of magazines, or use pictures from the internet. There should be one statement with illustration per page, and at least 8 then” statements. “if- Be creative!! It should be appropriate and appealing to a child, (under 12) Your grade will be determined by the following rubric: 1 2 3 4 Fewer than 4 4 5-7 All 8 “if-then” “if-then” “if –then” “If –then” statements statements statements “if –then” Statements statements No color, messy, Unappealing in Meets basic Colorful, typed, not bound more than two appeal, but bound, neatly Overall together, not criteria: color, missing one or drawn, topic Appeal appealing to child type, binding, two of the criteria appeals to a child neatness, topic More than half of Most of the All “if-then” Not following a statements statements follow “if-then” logical pattern at statements are are logical, a logical pattern, Logical all, and missing a not in a logical hypothesis and hypothesis and hypothesis or pattern or the conclusion are conclusion conclusion hypothesis and logical complete and conclusion do not logical follow a logical pattern Multiple errors in Many errors in Few errors in Correct spelling, spelling, either spelling, spelling, punctuation, and punctuation, and punctuation, or punctuation, sentence structure Grammar sentence structure sentence sentence structure structure
Conditional Statement Story If you give a geometry student a project… The purpose of this project is for you to see how “if-then” reasoning (also known as cause and effect) is used in our everyday lives. You will write a story along the lines of the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Your story should be written using “if-then” statements (the “then” statement of one sentence should be the “if” statement of the next sentence). The story must make sense. The opening hypothesis and the last conclusion must fit together to make a sentence (which makes sense). Your story must be made into a book with illustrations. You may draw pictures, or cut out of magazines, or use pictures from the internet. There should be one statement with illustration per page, and at least 8 “if- then” statements. Be creative!! It should be appropriate and appealing to a child, (under 12) Your grade will be determined by the following rubric: 1 2 3 4 Fewer than 4 “if –then” statements 4 “if-then” statements 5-7 “if-then” statements All 8 “if –then” statements No color, messy, not bound together, not appealing to child Unappealing in more than two criteria: color, type, binding, neatness, topic Meets basic appeal, but missing one or two of the criteria Colorful, typed, bound, neatly drawn, topic appeals to a child Not following a logical pattern at all, and missing a hypothesis or conclusion More than half of “if-then” statements are not in a logical pattern or the hypothesis and conclusion do not follow a logical pattern Most of the statements are logical, hypothesis and conclusion are logical All “if-then” statements follow a logical pattern, hypothesis and conclusion complete and logical Multiple errors in spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure Many errors in either spelling, punctuation, or sentence structure Few errors in spelling, punctuation, sentence structure Correct spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure “If –then” Statements Overall Appeal Logical Grammar
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