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Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #1 Name_

Use an almanac or encyclopedia to find information about Vietnam. Notes:

Crops

Natural resources

Chief industries

Other interesting facts

Write questions based on what you read. Base each question on one fact. List the answers on a separate page.

Put on a quiz show with other students. Take turns asking and answering the question.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #2 Plan a Trip Use the Internet to plan a trip to Vietnam. Find the name of a city you would like to visit. Research activities you might do there and make a schedule for a three-day visit. Remember: Take notes as you search Follow the rules for Internet safety

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #3 Write a poem about Vietnam or based on “Two Lands, One Heart”. You may choose a quatrain, a limerick, a haiku, or an unrhymed verse.

Summative assessment (rubric) (Everyone will do this.) Make a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast life in Vietnam, life in both countries, and life in United States. Write a compare and contrast paper.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #4 Name

Research the river deltas in Vietnam.

What are they?

Where are they found?

Why are they important areas?

How are they formed?

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #5 Name Figurative Language (Draw a picture and color.)

Reread the first paragraph on page 358. Explain the meaning of the idiom “swallowed by a mass of arms”. TJ was not actually swallowed. The authors used this word to create in the reader’s mind a picture of a small boy disappearing into a crowd of adults who are all reaching out to welcome him. Draw and color a picture to illustrate this. Write the sentence at the bottom of your paper neatly. Be sure to spell correctly.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #6 Name Silkworms Make a flow chart to show the steps of silk production. You may use “Inspiration” or fill in the chart on the paper provided. Add pictures to the steps. Use the internet or encyclopedia to find illustrations. Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #7 Readers Theatre Form a small group to read, “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, a fable which is told often in Vietnam. Act out the fable, using a narrator to read while the actors speak and perform.
 * 1) The moth lays eggs.
 * 2) The eggs hatch.
 * 3) The silkworms eat and grow.
 * 4) The silkworms make cocoons.
 * 5) Workers dip some cocoons in water.
 * 6) Workers unwind the threads and make them into silk thread.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #8 Write a journal entry Write a journal entry that TJ might have written at the end of one of his days in Vietnam. Since you will be writing as TJ, you will need to use first person pronouns such as I, me, my, mine, and we. Remember to include a date, what happened today, and how “I” felt.

Summative assessment ( rubric) Choice #9 Make a collage TJ learns that rice is an important part of people’s diets in Vietnam. Rice contains mostly carbohydrates. Find out why people need to eat carbohydrates. Draw or cut out pictures of foods that are mostly carbohydrates, and use them to make a carbohydrate collage. Underneath your collage, write a paragraph explaining why carbohydrates are an important part of a healthful diet.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice # 10 Make a travel brochure for Vietnam. Spell correctly, make it colorful and attractive.

Summative assessment (rubric) Choice #11 Make a travel poster for Vietnam. Be neat, spell correctly, and make it colorful and attractive.

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