ENGLISH 9

SECOND QUARTER

PERFORMANCE TASK PROPOSAL

Sections: 9 – Faith | 9 – Diligence

Activity: CATCHING THE ERRORS | ESSAY WRITING

Topic: Rules of Capitalization

Deadline of Submission: January 18, 2021

General requirements:
Part I - Catching capitalization errors

1. From the given American selection, the students are tasked to seek out the words and phrases that are
incorrectly capitalized. They shall utilize the knowledge they gained from studying the rules of
capitalization, discussed during the second quarter.
2. The students will be given a softcopy of the selection that needs to be edited. The whole document will
be in black ink, and so, using the same document, the students will change the color of the erroneous
words into red. There are 75 erroneous words and phrases in total.
3. The students' scores shall be determined by the number of errors they have identified. A perfect score
would be a hundred.
4. After carefully identifying capitalization mistakes, the students are expected to rewrite the selection, but
with the erroneous words already edited and corrected. The students' accuracy in making the correct
capitalization will be tested in this part.

Part II - Essay writing

1. The essay should have a minimum of SEVEN HUNDRED (700) WORDS. The rule is not particular with
the paragraph count. Any number of paragraphs will do.
2. In this activity, the students' main task is to answer the following questions:
a. What if everyone were the same?
b. If the concept of equality really followed what was depicted in the story, what specific
traits, skills, or abilities would be dampened the most to achieve equality in today's society?
c. Would you be happier if no one were better (or worse) than anyone else?
3. The students need not to answer each question individual and make separate paragraphs. They should
incorporate all their answers, ideas, and opinions regarding the theme of the selection into the essay as
a whole. Students will be reminded not to answer the questions in bullet form.
4. The essay should contain the basic parts of an essay—introduction, body, and conclusion. The
students are also given the freedom to add their own title or leave it untitled, as well as choosing their
own title should they opt to add one.
Document Format:
1. The first few pages should contain the selection with the students' markings already on it. The one
where they marked the incorrectly capitalized words in red. It should be followed with the re-written
selection with the correct capitalization already applied.
2. For the essay, if the student has access to any word processing application (MS Word, Notepad, Open
Office, etc.), the students are expected to submit their essays encoded / computerized.
• Document Size: Letter (8.5” x 11”)
• Font Face: Arial or Times New Roman
• Font Size: 11
 • Margins: Narrow
• Line spacing: Double
3. Otherwise, students may write their answers on a clean sheet of yellow pad paper or short bond paper.
Students who will avail this option are instructed to WRITE LEGIBLY.
4. If the students used MS Word to prepare their speech, they should save their files following this file
name format: (SURNAME – FIRST NAME – SECTION – PETA IN ENGLISH 9 Q2). Otherwise, if they
wrote it down on paper, they are instructed to take a clear picture of their composition, and then save
the picture with the file name following the same format as mentioned.

Rubric for essay writing

RATING
2
CATEGORY 5 4 3
NEEDS
EXCELLENT VERY GOOD AVERAGE
IMPROVEMENT
This paper is clear This paper is The writer is As yet, the paper has
and focused. It mostly focused, beginning to define no clear sense of
holds the reader's and has some the topic, even purpose or central
IDEAS attention. Relevant good details and though development theme. Topic is not
details and quotes quotes. is still basic or well-defined and/or
enrich the central general. there are too many
theme. topics.
The organization Paper are mostly The organizational The writing lacks a
enhances and organized, in structure is strong clear sense of
showcases the order, and enough to move the direction. Sentences
central idea or makes sense to reader through the within paragraphs
ORGANIZATION theme. The order, the reader. text without too much make sense, but the
OF THOUGHTS structure of confusion. order of paragraphs
information is does not.
compelling and
moves the reader
through the text.
The writer The writer The writer shows The writer seems to
demonstrates a understands reasonable control have made little effort
good grasp of good writing over a limited range to use conventions:
standard writing conventions and of standard writing spelling, punctuation,
conventions (e.g., usually uses conventions. capitalization, usage,
spelling, them correctly. Conventions are grammar and/or
punctuation, Paper is easily sometimes handled paragraphing have
CONVENTIONS
capitalization, read and errors well and enhance multiple errors. Errors
grammar, usage, are rare; minor readability; at other repeatedly distract the
paragraphing) and touch-ups would times, errors are reader and make the
uses conventions get this piece distracting and impair text difficult to read.
effectively to ready to publish. readability.
enhance
readability.
PRESENTATION The form and The format only The writer's message The writer's message
presentation of the has a few is understandable in is only understandable
text enhances the mistakes and is this format. occasionally, and
 ability for the generally easy to paper is messily
reader to read and written. Evident
understand and pleasing to the problems relating to
connect with the eye. the presentation of the
message. It is text
pleasing to the eye.
Softcopy of speech Softcopy of Softcopy of speech Softcopy of speech
was submitted speech was was submitted one was submitted more
PUNCTUALITY before the submitted day after the than two days after the
specified deadline exactly at the specified deadline specified deadline
deadline
OVERALL 25 POINTS

Modes of Submission:

The students may submit their works through the following methods:

1. If the students were able to do their project on a word processing application, i.e., were able to save a
softcopy, the students will be instructed to send / upload their documents on a designated Google Drive
folder. The link for the Google Drive folder shall be provided by the teacher once available.
2. Groups that were not able to do a computerized short story shall prepare their works on a clean sheet
of yellow pad paper, or on a short bond paper. Proper margin and should be observed.
3. Students who wrote their short stories on a piece of paper shall TAKE A CLEAR, LEGIBLE PHOTO OF
THEIR FINISHED WORK UNDER ENOUGH LIGHTING. Emphasis should be made that the photo be
clear and readable. They shall upload these photos on the same Google Drive folder mentioned above.
4. Files should be saved with the following file name format: (STUDENT NAME – SECTION – PETA IN
ENGLISH 9 Q2).
Editing

harrison Bergeron

The year was 2081, and Everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before god and the law. They
were EQUAL every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody Else. Nobody was better looking than
anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th,
and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States
Handicapper General.

Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. april, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being
Springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the HG men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s Fourteen-
Year-Old son, Harrison, away.

It was tragic, all right, but George And Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. hazel had a perfectly average
intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And george, while his
intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to
wear it at all times. It was tuned to a Government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter
would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the
moment what they were about.

On the TeleVision screen were ballerinas.

A buzzer sounded In George's head. His thoughts fled in panic, like Bandits from a burglar alarm.

“That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did,” said Hazel. “Huh?” said George. “That dance – it was
nice,” said Hazel.

“Yup,” said George. He tried to think a little about The ballerinas. They weren’t really very good – no better
than anybody else would have been, Anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot,
and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel
like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be
handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.

george winced. So did Two out of the eight ballerinas. Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap
herself she had to ask George what the latest sound had been.

“Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer,” said George. “I’d think it would be
really INTERESTING, hearing all the different sounds,” said Hazel, a little envious. “All the things they think
up.”

“Um,” said George.

“Only, if i was Handicapper General, you know what I would do?” said Hazel. Hazel, as a Matter of Fact, bore a
strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a Woman named Diana Moon Glampers. “If I was Diana
Moon Glampers,” said Hazel, “I’d have chimes on sunday – just chimes. Kind of in honor of Religion.”
“I could think, if It was just chiming,” said George.

“well, maybe make ‘em real loud,” said Hazel. “I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”

“Good as anybody else,” said George.

“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.

“Right,” said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about
Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.

“Boy!” said Hazel, “that was a doozy, wasn’t it?”

It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling And tears stood on the rims of his red eyes. Two of
the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples.

“All of a sudden you look so tired,” said Hazel. “why don’t You stretch out on the sofa, so’s you can rest your
handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch.” She was referring to the forty-seven Pounds of birdshot in canvas
bag, which was padlocked around George’s neck. “Go on and rest the bag for a little while,” she said. “I don’t
care if you’re not equal to me for a while.”

George weighed the bag with His hands. “I don’t mind it,” he said. “I don’t notice it any more. It’s just a part of
me.

“You been so tired lately – kind of wore out,” said Hazel. “If there was just a way, we could make a little hole in
the bottom of the bag, and just take out a few of them lead balls. Just a few.”

“Two years in prison and Two Thousand Dollars fine for every ball I took out,” said George. “I don’t call that a
bargain.” “If you could just take a few out when you came home from work,” said Hazel. “I mean – you don’t
compete with anybody around here. You just set around.”

“If I tried to get away with it,” said George, “then other people’d get away with it and pretty soon we’d be right
back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would
you?”

“I’d hate it,” said Hazel.

“There you are,” said George. “the minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to
Society?”

If Hazel hadn’t been able to come up with an answer to this question, George couldn’t have supplied one. A
siren was going off in his head. “Reckon it’d fall all apart,” said Hazel.

“What would?” said George blankly.

“Society,” said Hazel uncertainly. “wasn’t that what you just said?”

“Who knows?” said George.

The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn’t clear at first as to what the
bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half
a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, “Ladies and gentlemen...”

He finally gave up, handed The Bulletin to a ballerina to read.

“That’s all right –” Hazel said of the announcer, “he tried. That’s the big thing. He tried to do the best he could
with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.”

“Ladies and gentlemen” said the ballerina, reading the bulletin. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful,
because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful
of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men.

And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice
was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. “Excuse me –” she said, and she began again, making her voice
absolutely uncompetitive.

“Harrison Bergeron, age Fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “Has just escaped from jail, where he was
held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under–
handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.”

A Police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen – upside down, then sideways, upside
down again, then right side up. The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated
in feet and inches. He was exactly seven Feet tall.

The rest of Harrison’s appearance was halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever worn heavier handicaps.
He had outgrown hindrances faster than the HG men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a
mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The
spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.

Scrap metal was hung all over him. ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the
handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race Of life, Harrison
carried Three Hundred pounds.

And to offset his good looks, the hg men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep
his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle–tooth random.

“If you see this boy,” said the ballerina, “do not – I repeat, do not – try to reason with him.”

There was the shriek of a door being torn from its hinges.

Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set. The photograph of Harrison
Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake.

George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have – for many was the time his own
home had danced to the same crashing tune. “My God –” said George, “that must be Harrison!”

The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.
When george could open his eyes again, the photograph of Harrison was gone. A living, breathing Harrison
filled the screen.

Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door
was still in his hand. Ballerinas, Technicians, Musicians, and Announcers cowered on their knees before
him, expecting to die.

“I am the Emperor!” cried Harrison. “Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!”
He stamped his foot and the studio shook.

“Even as I stand here –” he bellowed, “Crippled, hobbled, sickened – I am a greater ruler than any man who
ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!”

Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five
thousand pounds.

Harrison’s scrap–iron handicaps crashed to the floor.

Harrison thrust His thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like
celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.

He flung away his rubber–ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.

“I shall now select my Empress!” he said, looking down on the cowering people. “Let the first woman who
dares Rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne!”

A moment passed, and then A ballerina arose, swaying like a willow.

Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with marvelous
delicacy. Last of all, He removed her mask.

She was blindingly Beautiful.

“Now” said Harrison, taking her hand, “Shall we show the people the meaning of the word dance? Music!” he
commanded.

The Musicians scrambled back into their chairs, and Harrison stripped them of their handicaps, too. “Play your
best,” he told them, “and I’ll make you barons and dukes and earls.”

The music began. It was normal at first – cheap, silly, false. But Harrison snatched two musicians from their
chairs, waved them like batons as he sang the music as he wanted it played. He slammed them back into their
chairs.

The music began again and was much improved.

Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while – listened gravely, as though synchronizing
their heartbeats with it.

They shifted their weights to their toes.

Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be
hers.

And then, In an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang!

Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the Law of Gravity and the Laws of Motion as well.

They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun.

They leaped like deer on the moon.

The studio ceiling was thirty feet high, but each leap brought the dancers nearer to it. It became their obvious
intention to kiss the ceiling.

They kissed IT.

And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling,
and they kissed each other for a long, long time.

It was then that Diana Moon glampers, the Handicapper-General, came into the studio with a double-barreled
ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the EMPEROR and the EMPRESS were dead before they hit the
floor. Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten
seconds to get their handicaps back on.

It was then that the bergerons’ television tube burned out.

Hazel turned to comment about the blackout to George. But George had gone out into the kitchen for a can of
Beer.

George came back In with the beer, paused while a handicap signal shook him UP. And then he sat down
again.

“You been crying?” he said To Hazel.

“Yup,” she said,

“What about?” he said.

“I forget,” she said. “Something real sad on television.”

“What was it?” He said.

“It’s all kind of mixed up in My mind,” said Hazel.

“Forget sad things,” said George.

“I always do,” said Hazel.

“That’s my girl,” said George. He Winced. There was the sound of a riveting gun in his head.
“Gee – I could tell that one was a doozy,” said Hazel.

“You can say That again,” said George.

“Gee –” said Hazel, “I could tell that one was a doozy.”