Explain how authors Reynolds and Kiely use figurative language and word choice to provide insight into characters’ emotions.
Explain how events and lines of text reveal characters’ perspectives of themselves and others in All American Boys.
Identify and explain the ways that characters’ lives are shaped by race and racism in All American Boys.
Engage in a Socratic Seminar with classmates, drawing from unit texts to support ideas.
Outline a short story that explores the power of perspective.
Apply some of the storytelling strategies they studied in All American Boys to a narrative.
These assessments accompany this unit to help gauge student understanding of key unit content and skills.
The Content Assessment pushes students to synthesize unit content knowledge or unit essential questions orally or in writing. The Content Assessment should be used as the primary assessment because it shows mastery of unit content knowledge and standards. This assessment should take approximately one class period.
The Fluency Assessment measures students’ ability to read a grade-level text with accuracy and prosody, at a proficient rate. Teachers should use the information gathered from the assessment to monitor students’ fluency and plan for any necessary intervention groups. This assessment is quick and should happen at the end of a unit. Teachers should plan to pull students one-on-one to do this while the rest of the class is independently reading or writing.
Explain how Smith uses figurative language in his TED Talk to develop and support his central idea.
Explain the impact of Rashad’s assault on characters and their perspectives in All American Boys.
Interpret an experience of fear, anger, or forgiveness through a free verse poem.
Explain how events in All American Boys reveal and challenge characters’ racial biases.
Translate the expectations of the writing task and analyze a mentor text.
Plan and outline a free verse poem that explores fear, anger, or forgiveness.
Determine themes in All American Boys and explain how they are developed over the course of the text.
Compose a complete narrative and revise for transitions, mechanics, and organization.
Explain how racial bias shapes the way that characters in All American Boys—and people more generally—are viewed.
Explain how Quinn makes the decision to attend the rally, and the impact of this decision in All American Boys.
Determine the technical meaning of words using context clues and reference texts to develop an understanding of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Describe the structure of All American Boys and explain how it contributes to the text’s meaning.
Determine Precious Fondren’s purpose in her article. Clearly and succinctly present information about a Black woman killed by police.