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St Patrick’s College: Year 8 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: 2017
Semester 2 - Assessment Task 2: Written Biography of an Activist
Student_____________________________ Date Task Due - WEEK 10 in TERM 3
Title: International Activist
TASK: Students individually complete a written biography based on one International Activist –each student must select a different activist. *Teacher may select activist for student.
Conditions: Students work individually Double session to write their activist’s biography in class. Allowed: Students must bring in a sheet listing their bibliography details. Students to bring in notes on their activist and images of their activist.
Time /
Marks
Research the selected activist’s biography details: two doubles
Write Biography: (handwritten or typed) one double session
Activist: -Latin actus, “a doing, a driving force, or an impulse” noun: a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
*Activists are ordinary, or well-known, people who take action...to challenge those in power, and all of us, to change policies and behaviours which cause poverty, inequality, death and destruction in our world.
PROCESS for collecting information (written and visual) of the selected activist:
Select the activist –based on your own interest areas - and see the teacher to confirm activities.
Use the headings on the right, IN YOUR EXERCISE
BOOK (and IPAD app) to begin your research collection ...of written and visual information.
Your information may be placed under these headings in your exercise book. Name (full name)
Early life background (includes birth date/place, family, etc…)
Educational background
Personal characteristics (include quotes about your selected activist)
Interests and Concerns
Achievements: what your activist organized or was involved in? Where are they now?
How has this activist altered your own view of a particular world issue? How has this activist impacted on your own understanding of change in our world? Bibliography of all resources used
Revise - clarify - improve -notes collected -how appropriate are the visuals collected (do they show the activist during various stages and activities in his/her life?)
Write the biography -consider logical flow of information -proof-read closely *Make sure the bibliography HAS been included –this is included in Rubric.
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What is a biography?
A biography is a true story of a person's life written by another person. Biographies tell us how people lived and what they did in their lives. Biographies help us understand many things about a person and they help us to understand how some changes in our world have come about. Biographies written about people who lived long ago may be more difficult to write than biographies written about people who are still alive, since it’s impossible to question a person who lived two or three hundred years ago. The author needs to gather the information from writings that the person may have left behind. Some of these writings might be letters, diaries, and newspaper stories.
(*The name of the activist selected)
(Teacher signed)
Students are rewarded with a higher result IF they place their research mostly in their own words. *Quote marks should be used if students wish to use someone else’s words in their biography.
Some helpful websites: http://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-famous-political-activists/reference http://www.thefamouspeople.com/activists.php http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/100-women.html
Sample activists –people who have actively campaigned to bring about political or social change.
Some suggested Australian activists...
Germaine Greer: Women’s rights activist ...challenged the traditional role of women in society.
Bob Brown: Environmental activist
Ita Buttrose: Social activist
Some suggested other activists...
Princess Diana: human rights/land mines campaigner
Oprah Winfrey: humanitarian
Use the following Google terms to research famous activists...find an activist who captures your heart.
-Animal Rights Activists -Anti-Corruption Activists -Children's Rights Activists
-Civil Rights Activists -Environmental Activists -Human Rights Activists
-Peace Activists -Political Activists -Women's Rights Activists
Bob Geldof: humanitarian
Mohammad Ali
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Steve Biko
Malala Yousafzai
Angelina Jolie
Emmeline Pankhurst
Benjamin Spock
Brigitte Bardot
Benjamin Franklin Ralph Nader
Julian Assange
Jane Goodall
Eddie Mabo: Indigenous rights activist
Laurie Levi: Animal rights activist
Paul Watson
Al Gore
Michael Moore
Madga Szubanski: Human rights activist
Rosie Batty: Children and women’s rights activist
Attach image of activist
Name of Activist______________________________________________________________________________
Born__________________________________ Died?___________________________
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Images WITH captions may be included on this page
Year 8 International Studies 2017
Assessment Task 2 -Written Biography - Influential Activist Unit
100-90%
Excellent
89-80%
Very Good
79-60%
Good
59-50%
Acceptable
49-40%
Needs Attention
<40%
Unsatisfactory
Teacher___________________________________________________ Date_________________________
COMMENTS? Excellent Very good Good Satisfactory Needed work
Information* about one International activist.
*written and visual
Insightful Comprehensive Highly relevant
and varied written and visual items
Appropriate Relevant written
and visual items
Relevant Some variety in
selected written and visual items
General Lacked detail and
variety
Little detail Lacking variety
in written and visual items
Structure of biography.
Highly logical Highly engaging
presentation
Logical Engaging
Reasonable Sometimes engaging
Basic More work on
flow of infor-mation and visu-als possible
Some parts engaging
Disorganized flow
Little engage-ment
Word choices. Highly appropriate to topic Own language mostly used
Appropriate to topic
Own language generally used
Appropriate to topic
More use of own language possible
General language Much more use
of own language needed
Limited and very general choices
Bibliography Comprehensive Accurately detailed
Reasonable list of sources
Mostly correctly detailed
Some resources listed appropri-ately
Limited number of resources listed.
Resources very limited and inaccurately listed.
Resources not shown.
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Teacher: ___/20 Result _____% ___/20
Other comments?
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