American Stories: Defining the Dream Through Time
Grade level: 11th Grade
Initial ideas
I want to design a performance task assessment for my 11th grade US history Ethnic Studies students to complete on what it means to be an American. I want this to be an oral history task where they have to design questions to ask someone over 30 to help define what it means to be an American in 2026. I want them to connect to the ideas we learned in when studying the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. I want them to make connections to the struggles they have learned about by other groups of people throughout the growth of the United States. I would like for them to end the project with a short documentary featuring the person they talked to and the connections they made. I would like to spend two weeks of class time one this.