EDLA519 Assessment 2 Template 3 Language Demands

What spoken
language
demands will
there be?

What listening
tasks will there
be?

What texts will

the students be
reading?

What written
text types will
there be?

What aspects of
grammar will the
students be
expected to use?

Think, Pair,
Share what
do they know
about Valli and
her personality
Small group
discussion on
personification

I am poem
criteria
Class Venn
Diagram

I am poem
lines
Venn Diagram
contributions

Pages 23-28 of
text in small
groups

Report back to
class on their
Indian cultural
practise
Discussion on
caste-system
Discussion on
similes how
they add to the
text

Internet
research on
Indian cultural
practices
Text glossary

I am poem
lines
4
Personification
examples
I am poem
lines

Examples of
personification

Page 33

Page 55

Valli brainstorm
Simile or

metaphor

I am poem
lines
3 similes that
describe Vallis
experiences

Features of
personification

Features of a
simile as or
like
Features of a
metaphor

What specific
vocabulary does
the topic
require
students to
know?
Jharia
Paisas
Coal
Sari

Personification

Caste
Kali (Indian
goddess)
Namaste
Roti
Dal
Simile
Metaphor
Bollywood
Kurta
Kolkata
Street people
Borrow
meaning steal
in this text

EDLA519 Assessment 2 Template 3 Language Demands

Identifying
imagery and
adjectives in
the text
Discussion of
how they
picture Valli
Round Robin
Class
discussion of
symbols

Pages 95-100
in small groups

I am poem
lines

Small group
discussion
how the
images made
them feel
Lines from
others poems
that interest
them
Reading their
own poems out
loud to the
class

List of locations
World and
India/Banglade
sh map

I am poem
lines

Listening to

students
contributions of
lines from
others poems

that interest
them

I am poem

criteria
Editing and
checking I am
Valli poems
Notes from
English
Learning
Journal
activities
Other students
poems

Listening to
shared reading

Shared reading
pages 71-74

I am poem

lines
Word-images of
Valli

Imagery
look/sound/smell/
feel like?

Imagery
Rickshaw
Durga-puja
Ghat
Rupees

Symbolism
images or
pictures that
describe
characteristics

Adjectives
describing words

Symbol
Tuk-tuk
Turban
Stethoscope
Leprosy
Monsters
(people with
leprosy)
Location
Adjectives
Bazaar

I am Valli full
poem

Characteristics of
I am poems

(As above)