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Course Resource - Assignment Ideas: Communications 12
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Please revise as needed before use. Scroll down to see all options.  Students may use all or part of these activities.

 

The following assignments cover most outcomes. Tasks may be completed in any order.

 Focus on Provincial Exam Prep
 A Explain how to complete a task at home or work. Please do this in an e-mail.
 B Explain a process such as the water cycle, global warming, the life cycle of a plant (from seed to seed), decomposition, or....? Please do this in an e-mail. Explain your process using a diagram or visual organizer of some sort
 C Use textual features to locate specific information
Interpret information
Draw conclusions
Organize information

open assignment - relate to SS text if possible

additional subject-integrated assignments are at the bottom
 D

Read critically
Assess prior knowledge of specific topics
Define

Follow the link for practice Provincial Exams .

Select:

  • sample Exams
  • read the instructions and provide the information requested
  • "check" Communications
  • print Release 2008/09 and the Answer Key

Read: To Everything There is a Season

  • Answer the related questions.
  • Mark you work. (Your total score is based on how well you follow directions and how accurately you assess yourself rather than on how well you do on the questions. Since the questions are practice for your Provincial Exam, you will gain far more by assessing yourself honestly even if it means you have to guess to get the answers.
  • Send me an e-mail with the following information:
    • In the subject line list "English - your first name".
    • In the body of the e-mail list the title of the story (To Everything There is a Season) and your score. List your score first as a fraction (how many right over the total possible) and then as a percentage (how many right divided by the total possible).
    • In a few concise sentences, tell me which areas, if any, gave you the most trouble. Example: I had the most trouble with #4. I couldn't remember the difference between alliteration and metaphor.
    • Select a literary term from the questions. Look in the course Links column for "Glossary of Terms". Find the meaning of the literary term that you have chosen. List this term and its definition in your e-mail.
    • Before turning in your work, check your work for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pleasing format. 

Evaluate
 E

analyze, evaluate, and respond to literary, informational, and visual content
Identify characteristics

Read: The Sutter Father

  • Answer questions 9-16
  • Mark you work.
  • Send me an e-mail with the following information:
    • in the body of the e-mail list the title of the story and your score first as a fraction and then as a percentage.
    • In a few concise sentences, tell me which areas, if any, gave you the most trouble. Classifythe trouble areas as:
      • drawing conclusions
      • recognizing writing strategies (literary devices, sylistic devices)
  • Before turning in, check your work for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pleasing format.

Evaluate
 F

Demonstrate the ability to support a position by citing specific details from what you have read, heard, or viewed.

Respond to informational text

  • In your booklet, refer the the article The Sutter Father on pp 5 and 6.
  • Answer the following: What important lessons did the Sutter boys learn from their father? 
  • Under your answer, list in point form, examples from the text that support your response. Give paragraph references for each example cited.
  • Assess your work for capitalization, punctuation, spelling and pleasing format before turning in.

Evaluate
 G

 Visual presentation

  • study the instructions on p. 11 of your booklet.
  • Send me an e-mail containing your announcement: Be sure that it provides the following:
    • title
    • uses a pleasing variety of text, visuals, and graphics
    • effectively persuades readers to attend
    • gives date, time, place
  • Before turning in, check your work for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pleasing format.

Evaluate
 H
  • Write a short, concise newspaper article including the same information as is contained in the visual presentation above.
  • Before turning in, check your work for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pleasing format. evaluate
 I

Oral presentation
Identify cause & effect

  • Read your newspaper article to an adult. Use your best oral presentation skills.
  • Ask the adult to identify your strongest presentation skills and your weakest presentation skill.
  • Provide the following in an e-mail to me:
    • title: oral presentation of newspaper article
    • describe the event (giving your oral presentation) in narrative form (tell what happened in the order that it happened)
    • identify your strongest skill
    • identify your weakest skill
    • for each skill listed, identify either what caused you to excel in this area or what caused you to fail to meet expectations in this area. Then describe the effect that it had. Example: When I gave my oral presentation, I was very nervous and stumbled on my words. (cause: nervous effect: stumbled on my words)
J

Have you written a resume and/or cover letter in order to obtain a job? If so, send a copy of each and you will have one less assignment to do.

OR

Business letter

Resume

  • Read the instructions on p. 13 of your booklet.
  • Use the information supplied to write a properly formatted business letter and application for the job described.
  • If you have applied for a job, you may submit your cover letter and resume in place of this assignment.
  • If you do not know the proper format for a cover letter and resume, use your online research skills to find an example. If you have difficulty, contact me for help.
 K

In note form, list ways that you meet each of these in your daily life. Include family, social and work interactions.

  • demonstrate flexibility, responsibility, and commitment.
  • be familiar with formal decision-making techniques.
  • communicate purposefully, confidently, and ethically in various interpersonal and electronic contexts, including the workplace.
  • ways in which language choice and tone may affect others emotionally.
 L

Use your biology knowledge and online research skills to do the following:

  • find and submit at least two presentations reflecting different points of view on the origin of life. Be sure to cite your sources. You might like to begin with http://creation.com/ and http://richarddawkins.net/ and http://creationdesign.org/ (You may read articles and/or watch videos/dvds) OR watch "Ben Stein's Expelled" and "Darwin, the voyage that shook the world" (available at Lakes Community Church).

  • Create a chart that helps you compare the completeness, accuracy, currency, relevance, balance of perspectives, and bias of each.
  • briefly record your response in the appropriate cell. Feel free to discuss with others and ask their opinions.
  • You will not be graded on the opinion presented. You will be graded on the depth of your thought
  • assess how mass media influences individual perceptions and social behaviours
  • demonstrate awareness of how different word choices produce different effects
  • refine visual presentations for impact
  • summarize
  • support an opinion

  • document research

Example: (You may copy and paste this chart into an e-mail or build one of your own. The cells will grow as you type in them.)

 

Topicarticle 1article 2
Source of article    
Completeness (is anything obviously missing?)    
Accuracy (is the article based on sound facts?)    
Currency (is the evidence presented up-to-date?)    
Relevance (is the information presented relevant to the topic of study or does it get off the subject?)    
Balance of perspective (are both points of view presented?)    
Author's bias (from what perspective is the author writing? creationist, evolutionist, intelligent design)    
Usage: list words that are used to subtly or not-so-subtly sway your opinion    
     
     

 
 M

Choose two or more areas from your chart. Write at least 250 words comparing your topics. Begin with a sentence stating your opinion. Provide specific examples to support your opinion. End with a summary statement.

When you are finished, check over your own work and help a friend check over theirs. (see the notes in parenthesis below)

  • self-evaluate personal communications for content, conventions, format, and style  (make sure you have used Standard punctuation, spelling, and formatting).
  • evaluate peer communications for content, conventions, format, and style  (check a classmates work / make sure to tell me what you found and how you advised them).
  • self assess communication abilities  (How well did you get your point across? Were you convincing? Is there anything that you could have done better?)
  • monitor spelling, grammar, mechanics, and syntax using appropriate techniques and resources as required, including electronic technology.
If you need help, let me know. I won't give you a grade on your writing until you are happy with it. We can send it back and forth until you get to that point.
 N

Carefully read the questions on p. 15 of your booklet. Yes, they are vague but you will have similar questions on your Provincial Exam so we are practising them now.

  • Select the one that you would like to respond to and put it at the top of an e-mail.
  • Underneath, jot down at least 5 ideas (gifts or Canadian experiences).
  • After each idea, list a related action word and a related describing word.
  • Add any related who, what, when, where words that you can think of.
  • State your opening thought. (This can be the sentence that you selected).
  • Using your notes, create sentences that support your opening thought.
  • End with an opinion or personal statement.

When you are finished

  • proofread your work
  • check for length
  • check for paragraph structure
  • check that sentences are complete
  • check word choice
  • check spelling and punctuation
Send your composition to me.
 

 

Subject Integrated Writing Skills -
Select and apply strategies to develop, organize, revise, and present the following communications - Examples
  • describe
  • classify
  • define
  • persuade
  • analyze
  • evaluate
  • refute
  • summarize
  • evaluate technical instructions
  • explain a process
  • bias and perspective
  • cause & effect
  • compare & contrast differing views on the same topic
  • business letter
  • personal letters
  • memos
  • workplace report
  • newspaper article
  • narrative and/or poetry
  • oral presentation 
  • visual presentation
  • documented research
  • develop and defend a point of view using evidence from work read, heard, or viewed
  • content response - literary
  • content response - informational
  • content response - visual
  • note taking - point form or simple outline
  • graphic organizers - use a variety - outlines, webs, flow charts, and diagrams to organize and communicate ideas

 
 O Subject integrated assignment A - demonstrate a writing form
 P Subject integrated assignment B - demonstrate a writing form 
 Q Subject integrated assignment C - demonstrate a writing form
 R Subject integrated assignment D - demonstrate a writing form
 S Subject integrated assignment E - demonstrate a writing form
 T Subject integrated assignment F - demonstrate a writing form
   
   
   

 

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