Pre-Assessment, Informal, and Formal Assessment: Africa Essential Question: Explain what the best similarity and difference

between African and American Cultures. Pre-Assessment, Summative: Have them work on a worksheet with a few connection questions. Worksheet: Name: Date: What do you know already about Africa?

What would you like to know more about?

Have you ever seen Africa, if so explain?

What do you know about African Culture?

This can be passed out before the lesson is taught and this will spark the childrens thinking as well as allowing the teacher to best assess where the students knowledge and understanding is already. The kids can share the questions aloud, and the teacher will review the answered responses to the worksheet quickly before lesson begins. Collect the worksheets at the end of the day and look over, adjust lesson to students answers, start lesson next class. Common Core: Writing Standards: Grade 3) Research and Build Present Knowledge: 7. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. Informal, Formative: Students will work on their learning journals and answer the essential question, explain what the best similarity and difference between African and American Cultures. While students are working on their learning journals, the teacher will walk around and observe and add input or ask student friendly questions. At the end of the day the journals will be quickly reviewed and comment

on by the teacher and a sticker will be awarded to all the students who completed the assignment or have applied critical thought. Common Core: Writing Standards: Grade 3) Text Types and Purposes: 2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Formal Assessment, Formative: Learning Journals will be collected every two weeks. The criteria will be stated in the front of their journal and students will be expected to meet all requirements, Such as: The must complete journals to the best of their abilities, critical thinking must be shown and grammatical errors must be minimal. The teacher will grade the journals and a few journals will be looked over and commented on while all other entries will be graded based on completion. Have them then read aloud one of their journal entries to the class to show understanding. It can be an open-ended discussion. Common Core: Speaking and Listening: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.