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Categorize religions within the Eastern World View
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product
Criteria
Describe key features within religions originating from India: Hinduism and Buddhism
Describe key features within religions originating from China: Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Daoism
Identify claims and arguments how to reconcile science and religious claims
Identify at least one difficulty or conceptual challenge for each religion
Identify at least one contemporary issue related to each religion
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Categorize religions within the Western World View
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product
Criteria
Describe key features within religions originating from Abrahamic traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Identify claims and arguments how to reconcile science and religious claims
Identify at least one difficulty or conceptual challenge for each religion
you identify at least one contemporary issue related to each religion
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Analyze key themes in religious texts
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product
Criteria
Identify at least one central theme per chosen text
Analysis interprets texts within a theoretical framework
Analysis of arguments that arise from the texts
Analysis is constructed with bias-free language
Analysis adheres to standard conventions of punctuation, grammar, and usage for written documents
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Appraise concepts and assumptions in world views
Assessment Strategies
Exam
Criteria
Appraisal evaluates the concepts between the world views
Appraisal identifies major assumptions of the world views
Appraisal identifies the major arguments used to support the world view
Appraisal evaluates the major arguments used to support the world view
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Compare theoretical and practical issues in world views
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product
Criteria
Identify the theoretical foundations and practices of a chosen religion
Describe the role of rituals in a chosen religion
Comparison aligns rituals to theoretical foundations of a chosen religion
Comparison accurately identifies the similarities and differences among theoretical and practical issues
Comparison includes defensible inferences
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Recognize the diversity between and within world views
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product
Criteria
Identify strands of diversity between world views
Identify strands of diversity within a world views
Identify key arguments or fundamental beliefs that support the diverse world views
Identify the causes of stereotypes within world views
Evaluate the stereotypes within world views
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Analyze a current situation or event in reference to a chosen religion
Assessment Strategies
Oral or Written Product, Reflection
Criteria
Choose a religion to analyze and/or observe
Analysis includes at least one central belief expressed by an authority within the chosen religion
Analysis explains the relationship between the religion and a larger theoretical framework
Analysis explains the relationship between the religion and a larger practical framework
Analysis identifies misconceptions of the religion that cause people to be confused or unsure of the situation
Reflection includes preconceptions of the religion
Reflection is supported with observations and/or facts
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Employ constructive thinking
Assessment Strategies
Ongoing Self-assessment
Criteria
You are responsive to feedback
You strive for accuracy
Your work is free of confusion and contradictions
You consider opposing points of view impartially and rationally
You provide justification for your chosen position
You encourage respect for individual differences and sensitivities