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Part 2: Introduce Performance Task

• In crews of three (or on your own), choose a focus figure, and conduct research on this individual’s remarkable contributions to space science.
• Determine which accomplishments should be highlighted, keeping in mind that each crew will be responsible for three pages of content.
• Collaborate on the completion of the narrative nonfiction picture book, sharing duties as authors, illustrators, and editors with the rest of your crew.
• Present your crew’s pages of the picture book to the class, explaining why these particular achievements were highlighted.
• Compile your story into a class anthology to be shared with the school community.

• research conducted on an unsung focus figure in the field of space science chosen from the provided list of options
• the story of this individual’s remarkable accomplishments described in a text that incorporates the characteristics of effective narrative nonfiction writing,
• relevant and thoughtful illustrations (hand-drawn or computer-generated) to accompany the text, and
• a presentation of your crew’s contribution to the class book.