Touchstones/Touchpebbles*
Standards


Reading Analysis: The student responds to, examines, and critiques historically and culturally significant issues and events portrayed in literature that both illustrate and affect people, society, and individuals.
Expressive Language: Speaking: The student speaks effectively for different audiences and purposes (e.g. to describe, express, explain, persuade, and analyze) using appropriate speaking strategies and conventions.
Receptive Language: Listening & Viewing: The student demonstrates, analyzes, evaluates, and reflects upon the skills and processes used to communicate by listening to and viewing a variety of auditory and visual works.


Assessment / Product or Culminating Activity

Assessment:
Culminating Activity:
Gifted Strands


Communication Skills:
  • Active listening
  • Responsive writing
  • Focused discussion skills
Thinking Skills:
  • Critical thinking
  • Decision making
  • Creative abstraction: Thinking “outside the box”
Interpersonal Skills:
  • Acceptance of various viewpoints
  • Consensus building
  • Shared learning
Self Understanding:
  • Self-acceptance
  • Personal responsibility for ideas
  • Confidence in expressing ideas
  • Independence from teacher

Activities

Expectations:

Individual thinking:
Small group activity:
Touchstone selection:
Large group activity:


*Touchstones Discussion Project:  http://www.touchstones.org
©Gifted Task Force/Advisory Committee
Fall 2002