Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1) Two work wanted ads: one for George, one for Lenny
2) One letter-to-the-editor (written by a character)
4) One obituary
5) One front page news article (detailing a key event at the ranch)
6) One opinion column (expressing and supporting an opinion about a
key societal issue)
Adding small extra items (sports results, photos, etc.) will add to the overall
effect of your presentation. This project must be word-processed and should
fit on two double-sided sheets of A4 paper. Further instructions will be given
about each individual news item later.
5-6 Imagination is evident in I attempt to use a variety of My style and language are
D my work sentence types appropriate to task and
E audience
V I use paragraphs and transitions
E My ideas show an reasonably well There are only a few errors in
L understanding of the There is an attempt to spelling, punctuation and
O themes of the novel. sequence my ideas word-use
P I generally use the appropriate
I I use relevant details that tone and voice
N support and help my
G
audience
3-4 My ideas show a basic I attempt to organise my work My use of language is not
E understanding of the task always effective
I use basic paragraphs
M I develop some ideas There may be regular and
E errors in spelling and
R punctuation
GING
Student 5 5 5
Teacher 6 5 5
Student comments (What are you pleased with? What do you need to work on?)
It diddnt turn out as well as i expected. Writing newspapers is harder than I expected, particularly the
layout. I used a horrid template and things were rather all over the place. just the writing itself was not
very good either. Reading it myself, i felt as though it just came right out of the top of my head, just like
that, and that actually was how it really was. I diddnt think things through enough, and in the end, it
diddnt come out very good.
Teacher Comments:
This task was all about learning to get the register of your language right for the different
purposes and you found this difficult Max. You also needed to try to recreate the style and look
of a 1930's newspaper but your style (although interesting) is not like a newspaper, more a
scrapbook.
You need to learn to write in different voices better Max and to plan and structure your writing
more carefully. A newspaper, needs to be very structured and factual especially on the front
page so people can access the information quickly. In the editorial, the language can be more
persuasive but still needs to strike the right tone. There are some excellent ideas in this project
but too often you are not thinking about the purpose of the pieces you are writing. You have
shown in previous projects a strong ability to manipulate language so perhaps poor
organisation and planning let you down on this assignment.
Hopefully in the poetry unit we have started you can show a more consistent approach to
learning.
Dear parents,
To support the students technology skills we are trialling a fully digital method of
communication for this assignment. An e-mail will be sent to you to explain how to leave
comments on the students blog/ digital portfolio. Please make sure you do acknowledge that
you have seen the assessment information.
Please e-mail me at campbellc@yis.ac.jp of you have any questions about this process.
Thanks,
Colin Campbell