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  Rubric 90-100 80-90 79-80 0-69 Completion All segments are complete  Most segments are complete Some segments are complete No segments are complete Comprehension All answers are accurate: main ideas captured fully  Most answers are accurate: some partial main ideas/ details captured Some answers are accurate: some details captured rather than main ideas No answers are accurate Presentation All font size and formatting are uniform and images are neat and centered Most font size and formatting are uniform and images are neat and centered Some font size and formatting are uniform and images are neat and centered No font size and formatting are uniform and images are neat and centered Effort Student tried their best for the duration of the assignment Student tried their best for most of the assignment Student needed more prompting than usual to try their best Student did not try/ refused Independence Student needed level of prompting that IEP goal states Student needed 2 mo...

Technology Tool My lesson plan is a district-provided language arts curriculum for special education. The standard I am addressing is the Core Content Connector of 9-10.RL.10: “Use strategies to derive meaning from a variety of texts and mediums”. Students are reading “The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. They recently completed a sorting activity for metaphors and similies found in the text. I plan to use the Artificial Intelligence image creator called Midjourney to incorporate a visual component to a discussion about the visuals metaphors and similies try to convey. Midjourney takes text prompts and generates beautiful and complex visual representations. Visual aids are a component of the Universal Design for Learning theory, and students with autism particularly benefit from concrete visuals (Boutot, 2017). One of my students with autism has had a hard time understanding what similies and metaphors are. I think the Midjourney tool will be effective in...