Art Museum Transfer Task

Discipline Transfer Produce effective writing in which the development,

Goals organization, and style are appropriate for various audiences
and purposes
Challenge, defend, and/or qualify ideas effectively for various
audiences and purposes through writing and discussion

Enduring Effective writers organize their writing to achieve their

Understandings purpose.
Effective communicators use evidence from their readings,
experiences, and/or observations when contributing to a
conversation.

Essential Questions How does organization strengthen my writing?

How do I support my argument?
How can I use specific evidence to explain an idea?

Goal Create a tour guide script or recording for some new artwork at the
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

Role Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Docent

Audience Visitors to the art museum

Situation There are some new pieces of art that are about to be introduced to
the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and they are all about
energy and matter! As a docent at the museum, it is your job to come
pinion about the artwork and its connection to energy
up with an o
and matter so the viewers can have a deeper appreciation for the
work.

Product A written script that explains what the piece of artwork is about
that uses vocabulary from our science unit on Energy and
Matter, as well as art vocabulary (Google Docs)
Scripts will be shared and assessed by classmates
An audio recording of the script (Voice Recorder Pro)
Will be placed on the students portfolios to reference
next year
A QR code that links to the recording, placed next to the
chosen piece of art (QR Code Generator)
A art gallery where students from our buddy class (Mrs.
Myers) will come experience our Energy and Matter Art
Exhibition

Standards RI.4.3: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a

rint or visual, including
historical, scientific, or technical text, p
 what happened and why, based on specific information in the
text.
W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a
point of view with reasons and information.
L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general
academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including
those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being
and that are basic to a particular topic.

Anchor Standard Exceeds Meets Progressing Limited or

RI.4.3 Standard Standard Toward No Progress
Standard

Students analyze Provide a detailed Provide a thorough Provide a limited Provide a limited or
how and why and nuanced explanation of explanation of inaccurate
individuals, explanation of events, procedures, events, procedures, explanation of
events, and ideas events, procedures, ideas, or concepts ideas, or concepts events, procedures,
develop and ideas, or concepts in a historical, in a historical, ideas, or concepts
interact over the in a historical, scientific, or scientific, or in a historical,
course of a text. scientific, or technical text, technical text, scientific, or
technical text, including what including insufficient technical text, failing
including what happened and why, explanation of what to explain what
happened and why, based on specific happened and why, happened and why,
based on specific information in the based primarily on and not based on
information in the text. specific information specific information
text, demonstrating in the text. in the text.
an understanding of
the subtleties of the
events, procedures,
ideas, or concepts
presented in the
text.

Anchor Standard Exceeds Meets Progressing Limited or

W.4.1 Standard Standard Toward No Progress
Standard

Write opinion pieces Students introduce Students introduce Students introduce Students introduce
on topics or texts, a topic or text a topic or text a topic or text, state a topic or text
supporting a point of clearly, state an clearly, state an an opinion, and vaguely, state an
view with reasons opinion, and create opinion, and create create an opinion, and write
and information. an organizational an organizational organizational ideas in an
structure in which structure in which structure in which unstructured
related ideas are related ideas are related ideas are paragraph;
grouped to support grouped to support grouped in
the writers purpose; the writers purpose; paragraphs; Provide reasons
that are not
Provide multiple, Provide reasons Provide reasons supported by facts
nuanced reasons that are supported that are sometimes and details;
that are supported by facts and details; supported by facts
by facts and details; and details; Do not link opinion
Link opinion and and reasons using
Link opinion and reasons using Link opinion and words and phrases;
reasons using words and phrases; reasons using some
 words and phrases; transitional words; And may or may not
And provide a provide a
And provide a concluding And provide a concluding
concluding statement. concluding statement.
statement that statement.
reflects upon the
topic and includes a
call to action.

Anchor Standard Exceeds Meets Progressing Limited or

L.4.6 Standard Standard Toward No Progress
Standard

Acquire and use Students use more Students use at Students use at Students use less
accurately than two least two least two than two
grade-appropriate energy-related energy-related energy-related energy-related
general academic, vocabulary words vocabulary words vocabulary words vocabulary words
and domain-specific and more than three and at least three and at least three and less than three
words and phrases, three art-related art-related art-related art-related
including those that vocabulary words to vocabulary words to vocabulary words to vocabulary words to
signal precise support their support their support their support their
actions, emotions, opinions about the opinions about the opinions about the opinions about the
or states of being artwork. The artwork. The artwork. The artwork. The
and that are basic to vocabulary words vocabulary words vocabulary words vocabulary words
a particular topic. are precise and are precise and are somewhat are not precise
accurate to the accurate to the precise and and/or not accurate
context. They show context. somewhat accurate to the context.
deep understanding to the context.
of the content area.