EDLA519 Assessment 2 Template 3 Language Demands

What spoken
language
demands will
there be?

What listening
tasks will there
be?

Class discussion
based on
evaluative
language.

Ss are able to
share their
responses they

Ss will listen to
fellow class
members who are

What texts will

the students be
reading?

What written
text types will
there be?

In this unit of
work, Ss will be
reading and
focusing on the
novel The Cay
written by
Theodore Taylor.

With the whole

class review based
on evaluative
language, Ss will
work towards
compiling their
own response or
review of the first
three chapters of
the novel.
A combination of
referring to the
novel (if needed or
necessary) along
with being able to
read and
comprehend the
questions that are
being asked will
assist the Ss in
gaining a deeper
insight of the text
(understanding
main ideas and
themes).
Ss will be required
to complete a
worksheet based

What aspects of
grammar will
the students be
expected to
use?
Class will review
evaluative
language that is
present in the
novel.

What specific
vocabulary does
the topic require
students to
know?
Throughout the
unit of work, Ss
will become
increasingly
familiar of the
setting of the
novel, as it took
place in the
Caribbean, during
WWII in the 1940s.
They will become
familiar with the
geography of the
Caribbean and
surrounding areas.
War vocabulary
such as: u-boat,
merchants, allies,
schottegat,
refinery, divi divi
trees and
koenoekoe

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have composed to
one of the chosen
topics from the
PowerPoint based
on a situation that
has made them
change as a
person.

The speaking
component of this
lesson will occur
when Ss are
discussing their
questions and
when they interact
in a game of trivia

comfortable
enough to share
their responses
with the class.

on previously read
chapters of the
novel.

By Ss listening to
themselves and
others read, an
image of the
island will begin to
form in their
minds. Through
the skill of
listening, Ss will
be able to draw
what they believe
the island looks
like (through
Phillips blind
description of his
surroundings on
the Island).
Ss will need to
work together in
order to compose
their trivia
questions this
will require
listening and team
work, as well as

Ss will be provided
with a research
task based on
Malaria. It will only
be a quick
research task that
will require Ss to
share their
findings with the
class. Ss will need
to read and
understand the
questions and
ensure they find
appropriate
information which
will answer them.
Ss will compose
their own trivia
questions in teams
or small groups.
This will require
them to remember
any major events,
situations,

Ss will need to be
conscious of
correct
punctuation when
writing their
questions, or else
they will not make
any sense to the

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with other teams.

Ss will be required
to engage in class
discussion at the
beginning of the
lesson (after the
reading of
chapters 16-17).
This class
discussion will
require Ss state
the main
occurrences of the
novel up until this
point.

carefully listening
to other teams
when they are
asking their own
trivia questions.
Students will work
in small groups
and engage in
listening and
speaking with
their group
members.
Conversations
across all groups
will have a
consistent theme
of survival on the
island.
Conversation will
focus on the novel
and will allow Ss
to use the skill of
persuasion and
reasoning.

occurrences or
meetings that
have already
taken place in the
novel.
In the list that Ss
compile and share
into their teachers
folder Ss will
need to use their
language skills of
persuasion and
reasoning in order
to select 15 items
that will help them
to survive on the
Cay if they were to
become stranded.

students who are

trying to listen,
understand and
respond to them.

Ss will create their

own storyboards
for their own
advertisements
and write scripts
to accompany
each scene.

Ss will review
expositions why
they are used,
why they are
important and
what exactly an
exposition is.

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Ss will need to
read their scripts
and allow for
enough time to
transfer the
recording into
their
advertisement
that will act as a
voice over.
Ss will present
their
advertisement and
their speech to
fellow class
members and
teacher

Class discussion
will help Ss to
remember what
the main themes
and ideas in the
novel were.
Activities such as

Ss will continue
writing their
scripts for their
advertisements,
and finish them
during this lesson.

Ss who are not

presenting will
need to remain
focused and
attentive because
they will need to
make dot points in
their English books
on other students
speeches in
regards to the use
of effective and
appropriate
language
techniques.

Ss will write a
short speech to
accompany their
advertisement
which they will
present to the
class.

All activities are

accompanied with
a written
component: diary
entry, new cover
sleeve for a video
game, lyrics to a

Constant
reminders of what
an exposition
consists of will
help Ss ensure
they are meeting
the criteria that
they will be
assessed on in
their
presentations.
Ss will have
worked on
evaluative and
persuasive
language as well
as reasoning. They
will be expected to
have incorporated
traces of these
techniques in their
presentation.

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the trivia
questions and the
composition of
song lyrics will
require discussion
amongst students
about the novel
and recurring
themes that have
appeared.

song and trivia

questions.