Assessment 1: Short Answer Questions

Assessment 1: Short Answer Questions
Year level: year 6
Learning area: English Literature
Curriculum learning outcomes
By the end of the session, the students will be able to
• Adequately express themselves in a variety of forms. (ACELT1616)
• Demonstrate critical thinking by Supporting analytical claims concerning several literary
texts (ACELT1614)
• Identify outstanding features in literary texts from a wide range of Australian literary periods.
Employ literary knowledge in generating imaginative writings (ACELT1618)
Instructions for teacher
Materials required: the article, "world environment day," sufficient copies will be
Provided to the students, including the assessment sheets. With the class sitting in a group, read
the passage below and then each student to individually answer the discussion prompts attached
after the passage.
Instructions for students
• When: period 2, Friday, May 8th.
• Where: normal classroom- Room T5
• Length: 50 minutes –during the regular lesson
Materials:

✓ For this assignment, you will require the following materials: pencil, pen, and eraser.
✓ You are not required to discuss with other students
✓ You are required to complete the responses on the provided test paper
✓ In case you require an extra paper, raise your and wait for the teacher
✓ The assessment will take place under exam conditions
✓ Take your time to read each question and complete them all carefully.
Essay Passage
Annually, August 16th is celebrated as the world environment day, majorly to raise the
awareness of protecting and conserving nature. It is a data that we are all reminded of
sustainability; that we are not the only existing creatures in this planet, and that for the sake of
future generation, we need to be conservative with the environment. When you take a cross-
check of the environment around you, there are plastic materials, polyether materials,
undecomposed materials, fumes from vehicles and factories all suffocating the air. We cannot
afford to breathe clean and fresh air, and if so happens that we continue with the same trend, the
little ones may never get a chance to breathe fresh air and may be adversely affected in various
ways that their life span may rapidly depreciate.
All these are attributed to us. We tend to be so busy, concentrating on our phone and
forgetting to switch off the lights during the day. We cook food in excess and ends up throwing it
in the dustbins, yet other people are lacking what to feed on for even once a day. We live the
water taps open, failure to switch off some of the electrical appliances that adopt
environmentally unfriendly ways of harvesting energy. We tend to no more extended care about
what we obtain free from Mother Nature. For once, have we ever pondered on what that plastic
bottle thrown on the road carelessly, plastic polythene thrown on the field, food thrown on dust

bins, etc. can do to o9ur lovely planet earth. If yes, then why do we continue to feel the heat
from direct sunlight increasing and becoming more intense?
It is high time that we come together as a nation, sit down, reason together, and be
responsible for what the Mother Nature has freely provided to us. The theme for this year is
"connecting with nature.” You might wonder on what the theme might mean, or how you would
connect with nature. The answer is straightforward and works on one principle that seems
unfamiliar to many, "plant more trees as possible’. The trees will usually help in retaining the
lost glory and pride in a clean environment. Else, who is not proud of a clean and beautiful
environment? Let every citizen play his role, and collectively, we shall rejoice.
The time is now, let’s not keep waiting and postponing. Let’s start by planting trees from
the doorstep, plant flowers, and outdoor, ensuring that you have an annual program of planting
trees. Encourage the children as early as grade one to care for the environment, and when they
grow up, they will never depart from the culture of environmental conservation and protection,
they shall always “connect with nature.’ If you have never had an opportunity to appreciate the
beauty of our mother nature, then perhaps take a walk by the beachside in the moonlight, and
you shall experience it by yourself.
Appreciating and connecting with nature will of no doubt results in positive results, and
we will care less polluting it. From old to young, plant a tree every beginning of the month, else
the benefits of clean water, fresh air, sumptuous food, will be a story of the past. Let’s start now,
appreciate the Almighty’s creation, and connect with nature. Mother Nature is our responsibility.
Question prompts to be answered individually
1. What is the primary moral lesson of the passage?
2. Who is being addressed in the passage?

3. Identify five words randomly from the passage and explain their meaning?
4. Identify five new words that you are not familiar with from the passage?
5. After reading this passage, what will you tell a friend to do?
Criteria for marking
Criteria Low (0-50) Medium (50-69) High (70-100) Performance
Overall
presentation
Poorly structured
and untidy (0-5)
The work is
slightly appealing
(6-7)
Attractive and
neat work (8-10)
Use correct
spelling
Incorrect
spelling
throughout the
work (0-10)
Minimal
identified spelling
mistakes
(11-20)
Insignificant
spelling mistakes
(20-25)
Identification of
the primary
argument
Vague theme
identified
(0-5)
Unclear theme
identified, but a
closer one (5-7)
Clearly defined
theme
(8-10)
Development of
critical thinking in
answering
questions
Careless
answering of
questions /
incomplete (0-5)
Unstructured
answering of
questions/
incomplete (5-15)
Critically
answered
question
(15-20)