Parabola Raft Performance Task W Rubric
Parabola Raft Performance Task W Rubric
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RAFT Performance Task
Directions: Today I will ask you to write a RAFT. You will pick from a list of
roles and audiences below to write a letter regarding the effect the
audience has on the writer
Roles
Parabola
Equation of a parabola
Audience
x-intercepts
a-value of the equation
vertex (max/min)
c-value of the equation
factored form of the equation
x-axis and/or y-axis
My example:
Role: Vertex
Audience: x-intercepts
Format: angst-y letter
Topic: your effect on me (Big Idea: the vertex is always halfway between the
x-intercepts)
My dearest x-intercepts,
It pains me to write this letter to you. I am very tired of the way you
always put me in the middle of things. When you fight, I am always right in
the center. It does not matter if I am happy (concave up) or sad (concave
down). I always fall right in the middle of you two. Sometimes I wish that I
was a parabola with no solutions. I cant even believe I said that. I wish I
never even TOUCHED THE X-AXIS. This is what pain you cause me. Oh! To be
a concave up curve with a minimum above the x-axis! Oh! To be a concave
down curve with a maximum below the x-axis sigh
I am tired of being always in between you two, but I know that there is
nothing any one of us can do about it. I only hope that you stop fighting. I
find it much easier to be stuck exactly between the two of you when you are
getting along. Enclosed, find a picture of us during one of the good times.
Forever stuck in the middle,
-Vertex
Criterion C: Communicating
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