Assignment 5
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Performance Task:
Your Name: Diane Forrest
Task Name: All About Me Poetry!
Grade: 7th
Subject and Topic: English Language Arts/Figurative Language
Task Description: Create an autobiography in the form of a brochure, pamphlet, newsletter, or poster of figurative language that shows each form of figurative language that relates to you.
Standards Assessed (Common Core): RI.7.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Additional Materials Needed: (can be “none”) No additional materials.
Texts:
Primary Texts:
Use your Ready Workbook to assist with this project.
Supplementary Texts:
Use the internet to assist you as well. Please list any references used to assist you with this project.
Performance Task Description:
· Create one of the following: Brochure, pamphlet, or newsletter
· Decide which one you want to create.
· Make up a one example of each of the following forms of figurative language: idiom, metaphor, simile, pun, hyperbole, and alliteration. Make sure that each example relates to you so that it can be used in your autobiography poem.
· Explain each example of figurative language that you make up.
· Create a poem about you (autobiography).
· Use the examples you created above in your autobiography
· Use connotation and denotation.
· Convey the meaning and tone while writing
· Illustrate your brochure with pops of color or photo designs.
· The autobiography must include at least 6 stanzas.
· You must include rhyme.
· You must include repetition.
The Student’s Role: The student will become a poet to create an autobiography in poetry form and an illustrator/graphic designer.
Audience: The poet/illustrator/graphic designer will have an audience of the teacher and the students.
Situation: A local poet wants to highlight up and coming poets in his book of poetry. Create an autobiography poem using figurative language. Use connotation and denotation to create the tone of the poem. You will have two weeks to create and illustrate your project. You may create a brochure, pamphlet, or newsletter. Make up one example of each of the following forms of figurative language: idiom, metaphor, simile, pun, hyperbole, and alliteration. Make sure that each example relates to you. Explain the example you make up. Then using the information that you made up, create a poem. The poem must include rhythm, rhyme, and repetition as well as figurative language. Each poem should have at least 6 stanzas with four lines per stanza. Put your illustrations in the background to highlight your poem. The poet will highlight five students in his book of poetry. May the best student win.
Goal: The goal of this performance assessment is to create a poem using figurative language and its elements to see if students are able to show their understanding of each part.
Scoring Rubric: (one or two criteria)
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Category |
Exemplary: Up to (20) points |
Satisfactory: Up to (15) points |
Somewhat Adequate: Up to (10) points |
Poor: Up to (5) points |
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Creativity: |
Used all six forms of figurative language: idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, pun, simile, and metaphor and they relate to each other. |
Used at least five of the six forms of figurative language and they do not relate. |
Used four of the six forms of figurative language and they relate. |
Used three of the six forms of figurative language and they relate. |
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Tone: |
Used connotation and denotation throughout the poem. |
Used connotation and denotation throughout most of the poem |
Used connotation and denotation throughout half of the poem. |
Used some connotation and denotation but not much. |
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Makeup: |
Has at least 6 stanzas with four lines. |
Has at least 5 stanzas with four lines. |
Has at least 4 stanzas with four lines |
Has less than 4 stanzas with four lines. |
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Elements: |
Includes rhyme, rhythm, and repetition throughout the poem. |
Includes some rhyme, rhythm, and repetition in most of the poem. |
Includes little rhyme, rhythm, or repetition. |
Includes little to no rhyme, rhythm, or repetition. |
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Grammar and me-chanics. |
No errors in grammar and mechanics. |
Little to no errors in grammar and mechanics. |
A few errors in grammar and mechanics. |
Has at least 5 or more errors in grammar and mechanics. |
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Illu-strations/ Designs |
Illustrations and designs are colorful, creative, and add to the poems’ tone. |
Illustrations and designs are colorful, creative, and add to the poems’ tone. |
Illustrations and designs are colorful, creative, and add to the poems’ tone. |
No Illustrations and designs. (0 points) |
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I can statement |
All I can statements are addressed: I can analyze and annotate a text for evidence of the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text, and for evidence of impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. I can determine the meaning of words and phrases based on context. I can determine the figurative, connotative, and figurative meanings of particular words and phrases, connotative meanings of particular words and phrases as they are used in context. I can provide an analysis of the impact of specific word choice on meaning and/or tone. I can explain the differences between words and phrases with similar denotative meanings that carry different connotations. I can analyze the tone of an informational text, explaining the impact of the author's word choice on the reader. I can analyze the effects of figurative language (e.g., idioms, metaphors, similes, puns, hyperbole) on an informational text's meaning and tone. I can explain the differences between words and phrases with similar denotative meanings that carry different connotations. |
6 to 7 I can statements are addressed. |
4 to 5 I can statements are addressed. |
At least two I can statements are addressed. |
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Total |
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Poetic Design:
Be super creative!
A local poet wants to highlight up and coming poets in his book of poetry. Create an autobiographic poem using figurative language. Use connotation and denotation to create the tone of the poem. You will have two weeks to create and illustrate your project. You may create a brochure, pamphlet, or newsletter. Use the Make up a one example of each of the following forms of figurative language: idiom, metaphor, simile, pun, hyperbole, and alliteration. Make sure that each example relates. Explain the example you make up. Then using the information that you made up, create a poem. The poem must include rhythm, rhyme, and repetition as well as figurative language. Each poem should have at least 6 stanzas with four lines per stanza. Put your illustrations in the background to highlight your poem. The poet will highlight five students in his book of poetry. May the best student win.
Is your Poetic Design A Hit?
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Your Job is to: · Create one of the following: Brochure, pamphlet, or newsletter · Decide which one you want to create. · Make up a one example of each of the following forms of figurative language: idiom, metaphor, simile, pun, hyperbole, and alliteration. Make sure that each example relates to you. · Explain the example you make up. What does it mean? · Create an autobiographic poem. · Use the examples you created above in your poem. · Use connotation and denotation in your poem. · Convey the meaning and tone while writing · Illustrate your brochure with pops of color or photo designs. · The poem must include 6 stanzas with four lines. · The poem must rhyme. · The poem must have repetition. · The poem must have rhythm. |