--Additional English CIA 1

Submission Deadline: 5th September 2020

Submission Type: typed, individual assignment
Assignment Summary:
Identify a film/novel/short-story in which an Indian character/characters’ identity or
sense of identity is shaped by their struggle against socio-cultural factors (E.g. gender,
caste, religion, ethnicity), or by soico-political factors (E.g. independence movement,
partition, riots). Analyse how the character struggles to articulate and assert their
sense of identity in about 150-200 words. Submit a written assignment by 5 th
September 2020 on Moodle, by uploading the written word document.
1. Should mention the name of the film/novel/short-story, year it was
released/published and language of the film/novel/short-story
2. Should provide brief summary of the film/novel/short-story (2-3 sentences)
3. Should be analytical using examples from the film/novel/short-story
4. Should be an original submission
5. Should include no plagiarism certificate along with online submission
Assignment Rubrics:
Criteria Outstanding Satisfactory Needs Unsatisfactory
Improvement
(4-5) ( 3-4) ( 0-2)
( 2-3)
Conceptual Ability to Ability to Ability to Inability to
clarity(5 marks) accurately accurately accurately accurately
identify a text in identify a text identify a text identify a text in
which character is and is in some but unable to which character is
deprived sense able to explain the deprived
of/stripped of explain how the character’s of/stripped of
their sense of which character is struggle their sense of
identity deprived identity
of/stripped of
their sense of
identity
Application Ability to Ability to Ability to Unable to
accurately apply accurately apply accurately apply appreciate their
(5 marks)
their most of their in some sense relevance of
understanding of understanding that identity is identity as socio-
identity as socio- identity as socio- socio-culturally culturally
culturally culturally constructed and constructed and
constructed and constructed and apply it in their apply it in their
apply it in their apply it in their analysis of the analysis of the
 analysis of the analysis of the text of their text of their
text of their text of their choice choice
choice choice
Analytical skills Ability to Ability to Ability to Unable to
accurately accurately accurately identify and
(5 marks)
analyse how analyse how identify and explain most
themes, motifs themes, motifs analyse some of aspects of the text
and other literary and other literary the literary and how they
devices are used devices are used devices and how convey meaning
to describe the but unable to they convey
character’s explain how they meaning
struggles convey meaning
Articulation Ability to Ability to Ability to a frame Inability to either
accurately frame accurately frame some arguments frame accurate
(5 marks)
arguments and arguments and but unable to arguments or
justify their justify only some justify their justify their
stance/reading of aspects of their stance/reading of stance
the text using stance/reading of the text using
examples from the text using examples from
the text. examples from the text.
the text.