Adobe Spark Summative Assessment Student Example:

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Unit Plan and Summative Assessment Review:

     The essential questions for the unit were: 1) What is liberation? 2) How have women fought for liberation? 3)Who has been excluded from the dominant narrative of women's rights? Through our unit, students were exposed to key vocabulary terms like dominant and counternarrative, bias, perspective, intersectionality, primary source and secondary source. Our students wrestled with the vocabulary and the essential questions of our unit through 200 years of American history and four distinct waves of Feminism.

     Students analyzed the silences of the first wave of feminism through reading primary sources like Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech. They analyzed what does liberation look like through the involvement of Pachcucas in the Zoot Suit Riots. They also examined tensions in the Black Panther Party, and how women contributed to its mission at every level.

     The main skills that our unit covered were creating a clear argument, supporting an argument with strong evidence, and analyzing the evidence for how it supports the argument. These skills were developed through written essays on Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richard's essay "A Day without Feminism" and newspaper accounts of the Zoot Suit Riots.

     The final summative project asked students to reexamine the essential questions of the unit with regards to women's rights activists in the 3rd and 4th waves of Feminism. Students were asked to explain, using a clear argument, evidence, analysis, and sourcing, why their activists should be included in their history classes. Students chose to study the works of Laverne Cox, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Margaret Cho, and Alicia Garza. Students selected their own primary and secondary sources, constructed their own arguments, and provided their own analysis for the inclusion of these activists in history classes.