Overview
This assessment, The Final Dig: Showing Your Understanding of How to Eat Fried Worms, gives students two opportunities to show their understanding of the unit’s key questions. This will be done in a group format and an individual format. The group format has students using working together and using multiple styles of presentation to demonstrate reading comprehension, understanding of important unit vocabulary, key themes relating to heroes and villains and the ambiguities that surround each archetype. The individual format checks for deep understanding of key questions about demonstrate reading comprehension, understanding of important unit vocabulary, key themes relating to heroes and villains, the ambiguities that surround each archetype, and allows them to compare it to their own life.
Day 1: Group Assessment Project: Talk About Your Favorite Worms
Introduction
Group Project on carpet (5 minutes)
Prompts: Now that we’ve finished the book, what did you think? Did you think he was going to win the bet? So, how many worms did Billy need to eat? (15)
OK, remember how in your journals, what did I ask you to do all along throughout the book?
That’s right, I asked you to always write down something about each worm that Billy had to eat. What are some of the ways that you could think about each worm? (How was it cooked? What was new vocabulary for you? How did the words make you feel? Was there a scheme? Did anything heroic happen?)
So your project for today is this: we are going to break into your groups from chapter 7, We are going to start off discussing our favorite worm scenes. We will spend 5 minutes quietly reviewing our journals to come up with ideas and examples from the text, then your group will spend 5 minutes discussing and choosing which ten worms you will pick to describe.
On the handout, you’ll then work together as a group to write a little bit about each of your ten favorite worms. Remember, you’ll have more to say about some worms than others.
Choose your ten favorite worms and present a little something about each of them. This could look like a paragraph about how the worm was prepared, a picture with a descriptive caption, a way this particular worm made you feel, a heroic or villainous way a character acted during this worm eating section, things like that. These prompts will be on the graphic organizer I give you help present your favorite worms. Remember, I want multiple kinds of descriptions about these worms. If you just tell how all ten of your worms are cooked, will that be very fun to share? Or will it be better if you also talk about how you feel and what you’ve learned? Use the journal. Use the word wall. Unit vocabulary is important! Have fun with onomatopoeia!
Process
Send to groups for journal reflection (5 minutes)
During this time teacher will be circulating among groups giving prompts and checking for understanding.
Turn and talk within groups (5 minutes)
During this time teacher will be circulating among groups giving prompts and checking for understanding.
Complete assessment (25 minutes)
During this time teacher will be circulating among groups giving prompts and checking for understanding.
Day 2: Personal Assessment Project: Heroes and Villains (40 minutes)
Introduction (10 minutes)
All together on the carpet, review and discuss the book.
Ask each group to name some of their top favorite worm eating scenes from the book and share how they chose to present them.
Review themes of the book. Write them on an anchor chart for class display.
Review vocabulary by having students choose their favorite words by physically taking them off of the word wall or pointing to them on the anchor chart.
Review the characters. Write them on an anchor chart for class display.
Now let’s go write about it. Share what you’ve learned. Use your journals to help you answer the questions on your sheet. Use the book to refer to text
Remember, be courageous!
Process (30 minutes)
Assessment
Question 1
List three characters you think are heroes in the book. Describe what characteristics make a hero and why you chose these three characters.
Question 2
Name two characters who are villains in the book. Describe what characteristics make a villain and why you chose these two characters.
Question 3
In what ways are the lines between heroes and villains blurred? Use a section from the text to help support your statement.
Question 4
Write about one way that you have been an everyday hero in the classroom. Use vocabulary words and talk about
If students don’t finish, they may take it home and turn it in the next day.
Background Knowledge
Students should have read the entire book.
In previous lessons, students have been introduced to: characteristics of heroes and villains, relating characteristics to characters, major themes of the book, relating text to self, new vocabulary, understanding complexity of characters, conveying comprehension of text.
Materials
How to Eat Fried Worms
Paper
Pencil
Word Wall
Graphic Organizer for 15 Worm Descriptions
Review Anchor Charts
Common Core Standards:
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Essential Questions
Must a story have a moral, heroes, and Villains?
How we can too become an everyday hero?
How does an individual’s perspective of heroes reflect their own personal values?
What are the expectations for a hero?
What happens if a hero goes against expectations society set for them?
What happens in the book?
How do words help us think about content?
Instructional Strategies:
Group Review
Displayed Anchor Charts
Assessmen
Adaptations
Extra time to create stories and show understanding
None, unless as necessary per IEP
The Final Dig: Showing Your Understanding of How to Eat Fried Worms
Group Members:
Worm 1
Worm 2
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Worm 3
Worm 4
Worm 5:
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The Final Dig: Showing Your Understanding of How to Eat Fried Worms
Name: ____________________________________________
Question 1
List three characters you think are heroes in the book. Describe what characteristics make a hero and why you chose these three characters.
Name:________________________________________
Question 2
Name two characters who are villains in the book. Describe what characteristics make a villain and why you chose these two characters.
Question 3
In what ways are the lines between heroes and villains blurred? Use a section from the text to help support your statement.
Name:_____________________________________________
Question 4
Write about one way that you have been an everyday hero in the classroom. Use vocabulary words and talk about
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