Elaborate - Constructed Response

Constructed Response - Comparing and Contrasting Impact of Gutenberg Printing and Internet

Constructed response questions: are open ended, short answer questions that measure application-level cognitive skills as well as content knowledge; use a range of primary and secondary stimuli and authentic "real world" examples including time lines, maps, graphs, cartoons, charts, and short readings.

Constructed response questions can assess higher level thinking: comparisons, contrasts, causes, effects, changes; identify patterns or conflicting points of view; categorize or summarize information; construct graphs or charts from data; state a generalization, conclusion, explanation or prediction.

Students will respond to an open-ended prompt describing the positive and negative impact the Gutenberg Printing Press and the Internet had on freedom of speech and free speech practice.

Students will use the TAG it 3 strategy to complete this constructed response.

TAG it 3 is a graphic organizer that helps students craft quality responses to fiction and non-fiction text:

Turn a prompt into an opening statement;

Answer a prompt;

Give details, evidence and examples from the text to support their answers.

The more practice students have with this method of responding to text the better they perform on their standardized test.

Students will answer the following constructed response as major assessment for this lesson:

Describe the positive and negative impact both the Guttenberg Printing Press and Internet had on the freedom of press and free speech practices around the world.Provide two examples each for both the Guttenberg Printing Press and Internet.

You may refer to your Venn Diagram, notes from the CBS Kids - History of Invention website, other websites, books or reference material for textual support for your answer.

Don’t forget to use the TAG it 3 strategy - Turn prompt into an opening statement; Answer prompt; Give details, evidence and examples from text reference to support your answer.