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Performance Tasks and Rubrics for Upper Elementary Mathematics

Meeting Rigorous Standards and Assessments

By: Charlotte Danielson,Joshua Dragoon

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Performance Tasks and Rubrics for Upper Elementary Mathematics

Meeting Rigorous Standards and Assessments

By: Charlotte Danielson,Joshua Dragoon

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools? In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Joshua Dragoon explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students’ deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the upper elementary level. You’ll learn how to: Evaluate the quality of performance tasks, whether you’ve written them yourself or found them online; Use performance tasks for instructional decision-making and to prepare students for summative assessments; Create your own performance tasks, or adapt pre-made tasks to best suit students’ needs; Design and use scoring rubrics to evaluate complex performance tasks; Use your students’ results to communicate more effectively with parents. This must-have second edition is fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards and assessments and includes a variety of new performance tasks and rubrics, along with samples of student work. Additionally, downloadable student handout versions of all the performance tasks are available as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906969), so you can easily distribute them to your class.

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Routledge

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1317442423

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A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Upper Elementary Mathematics

By: Charlotte Danielson,Joshua Dragoon

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A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Upper Elementary Mathematics

By: Charlotte Danielson,Joshua Dragoon

This book provides a collection of performance tasks and scoring rubrics for a number of important topics in upper elementary school mathematics. Included are many samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

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Routledge

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131792083X

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9781317920830

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

By: Lawrence E. Babits,Joshua B. Howard

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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

By: Lawrence E. Babits,Joshua B. Howard

On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina, and identify where individuals stood on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they could have seen, thus producing a new bottom-up story of the engagement.

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321

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807887676

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9780807887677

Wellington's Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814

By: Joshua Moon

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Wellington's Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814

By: Joshua Moon

Sir Arthur Wellesley's 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon's forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion. In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington's command of British forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government's struggle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military's outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington's efforts, almost costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military operations to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition building on strategy. Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington's "two-front war" was as difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon's troops and harsh conditions abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon's multifaceted examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government agencies and the press—issues still relevant today.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186100

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9780806186108

Culloden

Blood on the Moor

By: Joshua C Wells

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Culloden

Blood on the Moor

By: Joshua C Wells

As Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland, intent on regaining the British crown for the Stuarts, Gregor, a young, ostracised Highlander, has fallen in with a gang of murderous outlaws, whose actions lead him ever closer to a date with the hangman... Meanwhile, Flora, a young, beautiful Scottish girl, finds herself visited by a ghostly and sinister hag, who wishes to involve her in the fate of the prince. Both Gregor and Flora find the paths of their lives dramatically altered by the Bonnie Prince, and their futures dependent on the success or failure of the Jacobite rebellion. Futures which would ultimately be decided at the battle of Culloden...

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398458031

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9781398458031

Game Design Deep Dive

Role Playing Games

By: Joshua Bycer

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Game Design Deep Dive

Role Playing Games

By: Joshua Bycer

Game Design Critic Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series to discuss the Role-Playing Game genre. Arguably one of the most recognizable in the industry today, what is and what isn’t an RPG has changed over the years. From the origins in the tabletop market, to now having its design featured all over, it is one of the most popular genres to draw inspiration from and build games around. This is a genre that looks easy from the outside to make, but requires understanding a variety of topics to do right. • A breakdown of RPG mechanics and systems, perfect for anyone wanting to study or make one themselves • The history of the genre – from tabletop beginnings to its worldwide appeal • The reach of the genre – a look at just some of the many different takes on RPGs that have grown over the past 40 years • An examination of how RPG systems can be combined with other designs to create brand new takes

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244

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CRC Press

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1000966712

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9781000966718

The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance

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Turner Publishing Company

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1118098110

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9781118098110

The Forgotten Founding Father

Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

By: Joshua Kendall

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The Forgotten Founding Father

Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

By: Joshua Kendall

Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that.

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Penguin

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1101486546

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9781101486542

The Mountain Above the Winding River

A Civil War Odyssey

By: Joshua Day

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The Mountain Above the Winding River

A Civil War Odyssey

By: Joshua Day

Billy has loved the slave girl Nellies for as long as he can remember, but Old Albert, the boy's father, has repeatedly warned Billy that if he impregnates the girl, she'll be sold. The old man has had his way with many a pretty slave on the Dayton plantation, so he's fearful his sons might impregnate their half-sisters. Sure enough in 1859, Nellie bears Billy a son. He arranges for her to go North; however, and iniquitous slaver captures her. Billy won't see Nellie again until he fights at Shiloh and Gettysburg and escapes from infamous Camp Douglas.

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0595335470

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9780595335473

The Adventurer's Glossary

By: Joshua Glenn,Mark Kingwell

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The Adventurer's Glossary

By: Joshua Glenn,Mark Kingwell

Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom. Semiotician Joshua Glenn sourced terms from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, survivalist and gamer subcultures, comic books, extreme sports, and beyond to ask questions about meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, is introduced by Mark Kingwell in a thought-provoking essay. The Adventurer’s Glossary extends the entertaining and incisive critique found in the trio’s previous books, The Idler’s Glossary and The Wage Slave’s Glossary. This third instalment turns its lens to the language of risk, excitement, and journeying into the unknown, taking readers on their own semantic adventure.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228009480

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9780228009481

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Performance Tasks and Rubrics for Upper Elementary Mathematics

Performance Tasks and Rubrics for Upper Elementary Mathematics

A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Upper Elementary Mathematics

A Collection of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Upper Elementary Mathematics

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

Wellington's Two-Front War

Wellington's Two-Front War

Culloden

Culloden

Game Design Deep Dive

Game Design Deep Dive

The Ideal Man

The Ideal Man

The Forgotten Founding Father

The Forgotten Founding Father

The Mountain Above the Winding River

The Mountain Above the Winding River

The Adventurer's Glossary

The Adventurer's Glossary

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