PAOMBONG HIGH SCHOOL, INC.

School Year 2017-2018

Performance Task
Grade 8 English
Quarter 4
Topic 1: Journalistic Writing
Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of South and West Asian literature as an
expression of philosophical and religious beliefs; information flow in various text types; reality,
fantasy, and opinion in listening and viewing materials; word decoding strategies; and use of
information sources, active/passive constructions, direct/reported speech, perfect tenses, and logical
connectors in journalistic writing.
Performance Standard: The learner transfers learning by composing a variety of journalistic texts, the
contents of which may be used in composing and delivering a memorized oral speech featuring use
of properly acknowledged information sources, grammatical signals for opinion-making, persuasion
and, and emphasis, and appropriate prosodic features, stance and behavior.
GOAL: Write a series of journalistic entries for a newspaper.
ROLE: Journalist
AUDIENCE: the readers, the community, sports enthusiasts and politicians
SITUATION: You are a journalist from a newspaper company. You are tasked to write a series of
journalistic articles (News, Sports, Feature, and Opinion) which will be included on the newspapers’
weekly paper.
PRODUCT: News articles/Newspaper
STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS
- Essential parts

- Content

- Pictures

- Mechanics

- Design and Appearance

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SCORING RUBRIC: PERFORMANCE TASK NO. 4
WRITING JOUNALISTIC TEXTS

Criteria Exceptional Great Fair Poor

(4pts) (3 pts) (2 pts) (1 pts)

Essential All parts of a Newspaper is Newspaper is Newspaper is

Parts newspaper are complete.  All parts partially complete.  A incomplete.  Many
present. are present. few parts are missing. parts are missing.
 
Extra is added
and newspaper
exceeds
expectations.

Content Exceptional Developed Partially developed Very basic information

information.  information information gives a and little detail.
  provides a good fair description of the
Provides a true description of the topic.
concept of its topic.
purpose. 
 
Has an
educational
purpose.

Pictures A variety of All pictures and A few pictures and No pictures or captions
pictures and captions are clear. captions are present. are present.
captions are
present.

Mechanics No grammatical, One or Two Three or Four More than Four

spelling, or grammatical, grammatical, spelling, grammatical, spelling,
punctuation spelling, or or punctuation errors. or punctuation errors.
errors. punctuation errors.

Design and Very creative Complete design, Organized design, Unorganized design. 
Appearance and attractive.  shows creativity simple presentation,  
  and organization. and little creativity. Graphics are not
Exceeds unique. 
expectations.  
Empty space.

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