Assignment #2 Assessment Tools

- Grade 10 Applied English

- Poetry Unit
- Overall & Specific Expectations:
o Reading and Literature Studies
2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text
features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how
they help communicate meaning
2.1 Text Forms
2.3 Elements of Style
o Writing
1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize
ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience
1.2 Generating and Developing Ideas
1.4 Organizing Texts
1.5 Reviewing Content

1. Small, written formative assessment (mock quiz type)

a. Students will be asked to find a partner (or be assigned one)
b. Students will be tasked with creating three of the following types of poetry/ poetic
devices Compose poetry consisting of three of the following types of poetry/
poetic devices
i. Theme (love, sadness, etc.)
ii. Ballad
iii. Couplet
iv. Tercet
v. Quatrain
vi. Hyperbole
vii. Oxymoron
viii. Paradox
ix. Allusion
x. Symbolism
xi. Assonance
xii. Consonance
xiii. Figurative Language
c. Once all three examples are completed by the student, they will trade worksheets
with their partner
d. With the partners worksheet, the student will be asked to identify their selected
poetic creations, identifying marked attributes and commenting on their
effectiveness/ validity, functioning as peer assessment Assess your partners
poetry, identifying their chosen attributes and comment on how effective they
were
e. Students will receive their original worksheets, reflecting on their partners
feedback and making any necessary changes
 f. Students will be asked to self-assess their final products, marking the appropriate
areas on the provided rubric
g. Teacher will assess each students work, indicating their comprehension and
understanding on the same rubric (which will be returned to the students in
addition to their poetry)
2. Self-Assessment Checklist
a. Theme
i. How well can you identify and/ or develop a theme/ themes within a
poem?
b. Ballad
i. What are the attributes of a ballad as a poetic form?
c. Couplet
i. What are the attributes of a couplet as a poetic device?
d. Tercet
i. What are the attributes of a tercet as a poetic device?
e. Quatrain
i. What are the attributes of a quatrain as a poetic device?
f. Hyperbole
i. What are the attributes of a hyperbole as a poetic device? Can you
provide and/ or create examples of hyperbole in poetry?
g. Oxymoron
i. What are the attributes of an oxymoron as a poetic device? Can you
provide and/ or create examples of an oxymoron in poetry?
h. Paradox
i. What are the attributes of a paradox as a poetic device? Can you provide
and/ or create examples of paradoxes in poetry?
i. Allusion
i. What are the attributes of an allusion in poetry? Can you provide and/ or
create examples of poetic allusions?
j. Symbolism
i. What are the attributes of symbolism in poetry? Can you provide and/ or
create examples of symbolism in poetry?
k. Assonance
i. What are the attributes of assonance in poetry? Can you provide and/ or
create examples of assonance in poetry?
l. Consonance
i. What are the attributes of consonance in poetry? Can you provide and/ or
create examples of consonance in poetry?
m. Figurative Language
i. What is figurative language? How does it differ from literal language?
What poetic devices function as/ are figurative language? Can you
provide examples of and/ or create your own poetic figurative language?
3. Rubric
a. Take home assignment: Its time to show me what youve learned in this poetry
unit! Create a poem of your own, using as many of the poetic forms, devices, and
 techniques that we have learned about. Once you have completed your poem,
explicate it, explaining your use of forms, devices, and techniques so that I may
clearly understand them. Good luck!
Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1
Knowledge and Student Student Student Student
Understanding demonstrates a demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates
high degree of considerable some knowledge limited
knowledge and knowledge and and knowledge and
understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding of
poetic forms and poetic forms and poetic forms and poetic forms and
devices. Student devices. Student devices. Student devices. Student
created a poem created a poem created a poem created a poem
with thorough with with some with limited
integration of considerable integration of integration of
poetic devices, integration of poetic devices, poetic devices,
techniques, and poetic devices, techniques, and techniques, and
forms. techniques, and forms. forms.
forms.
Application Student has Student has Student has Student has a
explained their explained their somewhat limited
use of poetic use of poetic explained their explanation of
techniques, techniques, use of poetic their use of
devices, and devices, and techniques, poetic
forms to a high forms devices, and techniques,
degree. The considerably. forms. The devices, and
connections The connections connections forms. The
made between made between made between connections
poem and poem and poem and made between
explication are explication are explication are poem and
many, and some, and few, and explication are
thoroughly considerably somewhat little to none,
appropriate. appropriate. appropriate. with limited
appropriateness.