Language Arts Curriculum

MODULE LESSONS
Grade 3: Module 3
Exploring Literary Classics —
Performance Task

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Module Lessons Grade 3: Module 3: Performance Task

Summary of Task
Presenting a Revised Scene from Peter Pan
In this performance task, students read aloud a revised scene from Peter Pan. Then
in an oral presentation supported only by prompt cards, they explain the changes
they made and their reasons for making those changes. This task addresses CCSS
ELA RF.3.4b, SL.3.4, and SL.3.6.

Format
Oral presentation with prompt cards

Standards Assessed through This Task

 RF.3.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

 RF.3.4b: Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate
rate, and expression on successive readings.

 SL.3.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with

appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an
understandable pace.

 SL.3.6: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in

order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Student-Friendly Writing Invitation/Task Description

Why and how have you revised your scene from Peter Pan?

Now that you have revised a scene from Peter Pan, you are going to prepare an
oral presentation in which you read aloud your revised scene and describe to an
audience how and why you revised it. You will use prompt cards to help remember
what you would like to say.

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 Key Criteria for Success

Below are key criteria students need to address when completing this task. Specific
lessons during the module build in opportunities for students to understand the
criteria, offer additional criteria, and work with their teacher to construct a criteria
list by which their work will be critiqued and formally assessed.

Your presentation will include:

 A read aloud of your revised scene from Peter Pan

 An explanation of how you revised the scene, with a description of how it is

different from the original scene

 An explanation of why you revised the scene

Options for Students

 Extension: Students could prepare a program for their presentation
performance.

 Extension: Students could illustrate their revised scene to provide visuals for
their presentation.

 Students could use technology to audio- or video-record others’ presentations.

Options for Teachers

 Students may present to an audience including students, teachers, families, and
community members.

 Consider audio- or video-recording student presentations to review with

students when giving them feedback.

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Performance Task Anchor Chart

RF.3.4b, SL.3.4, SL.3.6

Why and how have you revised your scene from Peter Pan?

Now that you have revised a scene from Peter Pan, you are going to prepare an
oral presentation in which you read aloud your revised scene and describe to an
audience how and why you revised it. You will use prompt cards to help
remember what you would like to say.

Your presentation will include:

 A read-aloud of your revised scene from Peter Pan

 An explanation of how you revised the scene, with a

description of how it is different from the original scene

 An explanation of why you revised the scene

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Model Presentation Script

SL.3.4, SL.3.6
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie is a story about a baby boy called
Peter who flies away from his home to Kensington Gardens in London, thinking he
is a bird. He waits too long to return home to his mother, so when he does, he
finds the window locked and barred and has to return to Kensington Gardens to
live forever. In Kensington Gardens, Peter becomes friends with the birds and
fairies and has adventures with children who remain in the park after the gates
have been locked.

In the scene I revised in Chapter 2, Peter turns to a bird called Solomon Caw for
help when he needs to blow his nose. In the original story, Solomon Caw is quite
cruel to Peter and upsets him by telling him that he is a boy and not a bird, as
Peter thinks he is. Peter is already upset when he goes to see Solomon, and
Solomon only makes him feel worse.

Treating Peter this way seems out of place and unnecessarily harsh. Peter is only a
baby and throughout the rest of the story, Solomon’s character is kind to Peter.
Later in the same chapter, the text says that Solomon had taught Peter how to be
happy.

As a result, I decided to revise this scene so that Solomon notices that Peter is
very upset and deliberately and carefully guides Peter to understand that he is a
boy rather than a bird by asking him leading questions. The outcome is the same,
that Peter realizes he is human and remembers his mother, but without causing
Peter shock and further unnecessary upset.

I hope that you enjoy my revised version of the story and that it encourages you
to consider reading Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens yourself.

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Model Presentation Prompt Cards

SL.3.4, SL.3.6

1. Introducing the story

 Introduce the book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
 Author: J.M. Barrie
 Briefly recount story:
 Baby boy called Peter thinks he is a bird
 Flies away from home to Kensington Gardens
 Return homes, finds window locked
 Lives in Kensington Gardens forever
 Makes friends with birds and fairies
 Has adventures with children when gates locked at night

2. Describing the original scene:

 Peter asks Solomon Caw for help.
 Solomon Caw is mean.
 Peter is upset.

3. Why revised?
 Seems out of place and unnecessary because:
 Peter is only a baby.
 Solomon’s character is kind to Peter in the rest of the story.

4. How revised?
 Solomon notices Peter upset
 Questions to help him understand he is a boy
 Outcome the same—Peter human and remembers his mother
 Not so upset and shocked
5. Conclusion
 Hope you enjoyed it
 Consider reading original story

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Presentation Prompt Cards

SL.3.4, SL.3.6

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1. What is this section about?

2. What is this section about?

3. What is this section about?

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4. What is this section about?

5. What is this section about?

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