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ENGLISH: Year Ten Semester One 2012TASK FOUR

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Task Four Feature Article

You will learn about the conventions of feature articles in order to be able to analyse andinterpret examples viewed in-class. You will also construct your own feature article on acurrent social, cultural or political issue of your choice.

You are also required to submit a paragraph outlining the purpose, audience and context ofyour feature article.

*You will need to choose a topic within 2 days of receiving this task sheet, otherwise a topic

will be chosen for you.

This task will assess yourWriting and Reading skills.

To do well in this task make sure you:

Demonstrate your understanding of how feature article conventions are employed toinform and persuade an audience

Research a current social, cultural or political issue on which to create your ownfeature article

Explain how you have used feature article conventions to achieve your purpose, aswell as explaining the context and audience for your feature article

Include relevant factual information in your article in the form of statistics, interviews,facts, tables etc.

Demonstrate effective planning, drafting and revising of your writing

Use correctly structured paragraphs to create a cohesive and clear article

Write with correct grammar and spelling, and use sentences effectively tocommunicate your ideas

Teachers comment:

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8/2/2019 Feature Article Task Yr 10

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YEAR 10 FEATURE ARTICLE MARKING GUIDE

Very HighAchievement

HighAchievement

SatisfactoryAchievement

BelowSatisfactory

Achievement

LimitedAchievement

Feature Articlelayout and

conventions (R)

Highlyengaging and

coherent; highlyeffective use offeature article

conventions (5)

Engaging andcoherent;

effective use offeature article

conventions (4)

Some elementsof coherency

and attempts touse feature

articleconventions (3)

Attempts toconstruct a

feature article;lacking in

coherency (2)

No evidence offeature article

conventions (1)

Use of quotes &evidence from

research tosupport ideas and

opinions (R)

Highly effectiveuse of quotes &evidence from

research tosupport ideasand opinions

(5)

Effective use ofquotes &

evidence fromresearch to

support ideasand opinions

(4)

Some use ofquotes &

evidence fromresearch (3)

Little use ofquotes &

evidence fromresearch (2)

No use ofquotes &

evidence fromresearch (0)

Demonstratedunderstanding of

audience andpurpose (W)

Clear & correctidentification of

audience &understandingof text purpose

(4)

Correctlyidentifiesaudience,

correctunderstandingof text purpose

(3)

Someidentification ofaudience, basicunderstandingof text purpose

(2)

Littleidentification of

audience,limited

understandingof text purpose

(1)

Audience notidentified,

understandingof text purpose

notdemonstrated

(0)

Spelling,punctuation &grammar (W)

Spelling,punctuation &

grammar issophisticated,

correct &enhanceswriting (4)

Spelling,punctuation &

grammar iscorrect &

attempts to addsophistication

(3)

Spelling,grammar &

punctuation ismostly correct

(2)

Frequent errorsin spelling,grammar &

punctuation (1)

Little to no useof correct

punctuation,spelling &

grammar (0)

Evidence ofdrafting and editing

processes (W)

Full evidence ofdrafting andediting (2)

Notes/draftssubmitted (1)

No evidence ofdrafting or

planning. (0)

Student Reflection

What did I do well in this task? What elements of this task could I improve?