Matthew S. Monahan
The culminating project requires that students fulfill Connecticut State Grade 10 Power Standard 3.2.f Publish and/or present in a myriad of ways, including the use of arts and technology. Additionally throughout the course of implementation students will fulfill the following: 1.1.e Draw conclusions and use evidence to substantiate them by using text heard (i.e. Guthrie), read (i.e. Wilson, Miller et al) and viewed (i.e. Olivier, Griffith and Wilson), 1.3.c Analyze the meaning of words and phrases in context (i.e. text rendering of Wilson’s
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obituary), 2.1.d Analyze literary conventions and devices an author uses and how they contribute meaning and appeal (i.e. Workshops associated with the reading of Wilson and Miller). Other standards covered by the study of Wilson and Miller are 2.4.d Discuss and evaluate themes and connections that cross cultures and 1.2.d Make, support and defend judgments about texts.