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Estimated Use: First 2 weeks of Quarter 2 – beginning of November – approximately 6-8 days Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ “Golpe de Estado” | OSEU 2: Identity & Resiliency Compelling After reading Golpe de Estado, a short story from the novel Shattered, can we appreciate the Question connection between identity and resiliency? Standards and 7.RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of Practices the text Staging the What changes have you seen during your lifetime that have presented challenges? Does who we are Question affect how we handle change? How do people learn to grow and adapt to overcome challenges? Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3 Do all people react to challenges in the What have you noticed about your own How do you balance seeing the same way? What causes them to react resilience and ability to adapt to positive with being realistic about in the ways that they do? change during tough experiences? the struggles in life? Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Do a close read of Golpe de Estado. Create a character analysis page. Look for places in the story that the Put yourself in the middle, then main character has to overcome think of at least one challenge challenges. Create one side of a T Watch the linked video below and you’ve had to overcome in life. chart that outlines the challenges and journal briefly about two of the Write out things that you thought how he handles them. provided questions (questions are on about while faced with that links below videos - use #1, 2, 3, or 4). challenge. Then write things you Then, look at how a different Have a table discussion with talked about during the challenge, character overcomes the same classmates. followed by things you felt while it challenges. Compare and contrast the was happening. Finally, write about two people’s actions in the other side what you did during and after the of the T chart. challenge. Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu- Text of Golpe de Estado two-kevin-locke-forces-of- disintegration-integration/ With a group of up to 4 people, create a children’s book that depicts a story of someone facing a challenge in life. Use information from the story we read, the video we watched, and your personal experiences to make it realistic. Show how the main Summative character finds a way to balance identity and resiliency to overcome the challenge that he or she faces. The story should be 10 pages long. Use Performance https://storybird.com/classes/making-meaning-7th-grade/ to create the story book. Task Research stories of children like the little boys or the little girl that the main character Extension from Golpe de Estado helped. Find out if there are programs that can help those children. If there are none, create a plan for a program that could help those children  overcome challenges wherever they may live. If there are programs to help them, write about which program you think is the most valuable and why that would help the children be resilient. Taking Informed Start each day with positive self-affirmations. Affirm who you are, what you are proud of, and that Action you are valuable each and every day.