Assessment Strategies
This lesson provides several opportunities for informal and formal assessment. Informal opportunities include: Class participation–volunteering of information, identifying memorial images (person or group), listing types of memorials, feedback section at end of lesson Reading Comprehension/Reading Out Loud–Discussion of The Story of Michael Strank and the United States Marines at Iwo Jima Formal Assessment opportunities: The Student Worksheet 1-Making a Memorial has an associated Teacher's Guide to be used with open interpretation of student work. You can find this in the Teacher Resource section. Use Rubric for Memorial Project for an assessment guide to criteria of group work, content, memorial design, and presentation.
