KF PRIVACY PROJECT WEBQUEST

Summative Assessment
Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? In making your argument, use evidence from the text and discussion from the Philosophical Chairs activity to support your claims.
The teacher will determine mastery of the benchmarks through observation of discussion and written responses throughout the entire lesson; however, specific evaluation will take place during the written essay where students are asked to answer the following prompt:

Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? In making your argument, use evidence from the text and discussion from the Philosophical Chairs activity to support your claims.

Formative Assessment
Before Reading:
Classroom Discussion: The teacher will be able to gather information regarding student understanding through discussion of the video clip and the Anticipation Guide. Specifically, the teacher is looking to see if students have issues with privacy as a whole.

During Reading:
First Read:

Partner Discussion/Chart Responses/Written Responses

The teacher will be able to gain insight to the students' understanding of the text through listening to student conversation while in partners, the written responses, and most importantly through the class discussion while posting on the chart regarding: Who is Edward Snowden? What did he do? and the clarification process with unknown words and phrases.

After Reading:
Second Read:

Paired student work and written responses, as well as observation of discussion during Philosophical Chairs.

The teacher will be able to assist with partner discussions to ensure answers are accurate and based upon textual evidence. For example, as the teacher is circulating around the room listening to conversations, he/she is listening for students answering the questions using information from the article. If that is missing the teacher could probe, "Where did you read that in the text?" or "What did you read that made you come to that conclusion?" The teacher will also encourage students to record (written responses) where specific evidence was found and why it is important for the case for or against Snowden; this will assist students when participating in the Philosophical Chairs discussion. While facilitating the Philosophical Chairs discussion, the teacher is listening for the student's ability to adequately defend his/her stance based on evidence from the readings. Teacher "look-fors" would be statements such as, "When I read Paragraph 2 of the Pro section, I..." or, "The author Jay Carafano states..."