Peter Lalor Vocational College Intermediate Literacy Assessment Task UNIT OF STUDY: Smells Like Teen Spirit Choose

any activities from the list and complete. To succeed you must submit a minimum of 12 points of work.
Multiple Intelligences Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking. Remembering 1 point
Write a thoughtful paragraph about yourself and share with one other person in the class. Create a wordfind using terms relevant to an autobiography. Share this with other members of your group.

Understanding 2 points
Read a biography or an autobiography and complete set tasks.

Applying 3 points
Journal Entry: Who am I? Do you know who you are? What makes you uniquely YOU? Research your family and create a detailed family tree.

Analysing 4 points
Investigate how life was like for a parent or grandparent. Write a detailed report.

Evaluating 5 points
Write about a significant event in your life and explain why this occurred. How could you have dealt with this event in a different way? Survey the class about their ethnic background. Convert your results into percentages. Present your results in a graph using excel and write a report discussing your findings. Create a quality autobiographical board game. Share the game with members of your group once its finished. Magazine Collage: Use images/pictures of who you are and who you want to be. Choose two songs that mean something to you. Complete a Venn diagram and explain the two songs. Think about purpose, audience etc. One page in length. How does a persons culture make them who they are? Use a personal anecdote to explain this in more detail.

Creating 6 points
Select one major event in your life or that of your parent or grandparent and write a story for a newspaper. Design a house to scale that reflects your personality. Complete set handout.

Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science.

Create a timeline of your life highlighting the key moments. Write a thoughtful paragraph about your life, for future relatives.

Survey the class about their interests and publish the results using an excel application. Write a half page report analysing the results. Use a Venn diagram to compare yourself with one other person in the classroom.

Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualizing. Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities. Musical I enjoy making & listening to music.

Find a photo or picture that says something about you. Write a thoughtful paragraph about this. Create a short fact sheet about yourself. Swap your fact sheet with other members of your table group and play a game of charades. Find a song that says something about you. Write a paragraph about how the song represents you. Learn the song. Create a quiz about yourself and share with the class, table group or one other student in class.

Find two photos of yourself at different stages in your life. Explain how each photo says something about you and how you have changed over time. Mystery envelope. Locate words and images from the internet that tells us something about you. Find an autobiographical song. Write a paragraph about what the song means. How do you connect with this song? Write a tweet for yourself with 140 characters or less. Make your own Twitter # hashtag. Who would you follow? Who would follow you? Create a picture time line about your life or that of a parent or grandparent.

Photo-Montage: Create a collage of cut up pictures, and words. P8 handout for more details. Personal Coat of Arms activity sheet.

Create a detailed selfportrait.

Make a sound map of your life.

Use modeling clay to create a model of yourself. Write a supporting paragraph analysing your model. Find a song that you connect with. Analyse what the song is about and how you connect with it. Interview a parent or grandparent about their life. Use this information to write a detailed paragraph and create a frame around it with things the loved one enjoyed doing. Personal Symbols.

Time capsule. OR Create a Class Montage: It should reflect the similarities and diversity of the class. Write a song about yourself. Use the ipad to record yourself.

Interpersonal I enjoy working with others.

Board game

Write and perform a short skit about your life. Record your skit on the ipad using iMovie.

Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself.

Write a thoughtful paragraph about your life, for future relatives.

Journal Entry: Imagine you are 88 years old and looking back on your life. What would you say?

Character sketch handout.

Use the Explain Everything application on the ipad to write the story of your life or that of a parent or grandparent. Include photos.