Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English III
Code: 90121

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Writing task

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 110 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Sunday, October
September 5 , 2022
th 2nd, 2022
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:
The student will be able to construct a text using narrative tenses and discourse
connectors in a logical organizational pattern.

To develop this activity, you must follow these steps:

⮚ Step 1: Undertake a prior revision of the E-book, modules 5 to 8.

⮚ Step 2: Then read the text “A fable for tomorrow” by Rachel Carson, on the next
link: https://bit.ly/3CCgQeR

⮚ Step 3: After reading the text, in the forum, you must answer the following
questions related it:

1. How was the town at the beginning?

2. How is it now?
3. How is it predicted to be in the future?
4. A fable is a story with a lesson; so, in your opinion, what is the lesson that
this fable teaches? (One or two lines)

NOTE: you must answer those questions directly on the forum body text, not
by attaching files.

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 ⮚ Step 4-Brainstorm: “A Fable for tomorrow” shows how people intervention or
settlements have caused irremediable consequences in a town; nowadays,
overpopulation and consumerism has accelerated the development of factories
that pollute and overexploit non-renewable natural resources, causing
irreparable damage to our environment.

To reflect about that issue, you are going to complete the following chart with
your own ideas that will guide you in your composition. Then, share it in the
forum.

Table 1. Fable information

Title

Characters

Setting

Conflict

The way your

region, town
or city was
before.

The way it is
now

Predictions
how it will be
in the future.

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⮚ Step 5-Composition: According to the information above, you must write a
fable with the following conditions:

1. The fable must have three paragraphs where you explain how
overharvesting or industrialization have affected the region where you live.

2. Use pictures to illustrate your fable (you can take as example the text “a fable
for tomorrow”).

3. The fable must have a teaching at the end of it.

After creating your fable, you must do the following:

1. Post the fable in the forum to get feedback from your classmates and tutor.

NOTE: you must post it directly on the body text of the forum, not by attaching
files.

2. Comment your mates’ fables by giving your point of view about their
compositions.

3. Once you have made the suggested corrections, compile your activity
(summary, chart and fable) in a pdf or word document.

➢ Step 6: Post your fable on the Evaluation environment: after doing the
corrections over your tutor’s feedback, you must upload your fable on the
Evaluation environment.

NOTE: your final document must be named as follow:

Task 2_student’s name group number. Example: (Task 2_Pedro Salazar_255)

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For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

⮚ Revise the agenda of the course to be informed about the starting and closing
dates of the activity.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

⮚ Go over the grammar topics and activities in modules 5 to 8 of the e-book.
⮚ Take part in the writing forum by posting your contributions on time.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

⮚ submit your final document to the evaluation environment

Evidence of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A document with the following information:

⮚ Cover.
⮚ Summary of the text “a fable for tomorrow”
⮚ Brainstorm chart.
⮚ Own composition.

Evidence of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

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2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

➢ Each student must take part in the forum within the dates stablished in the agenda.

➢ Before submitting the final paper, each student should check that it meets all the
requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

➢ Each student must feedback or comment to one of his/her partners contributions,

in order to help them improve their compositions.

➢ Each student must submit their own document.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must comply
with APA style.

In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism. You
can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it includes
citations where there is no match between these and the reference and paragraph f)
To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of research products,
which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13 de diciembre de
2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 110 points
First evaluation High level: Participates in the forum according to the guide
criterion: requirements within the dates stablished in the agenda.

Forum If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
participation. and 20 points

This criterion Average level: Participates partially in the forum. His/her

represents 20 contributions were posted within the three last days of the
points of the total activity.
of 110 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
the activity. and 10 points

Low level: Does not participate in the forum or the

participations were not meaningful at all.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Second evaluation High level: Makes an appropriate use of different grammatical
criterion: structures (Narrative tenses) according to the level.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
Grammar. and 25 points

This criterion Average level: The text uses some grammar structures
represents 25 according to the level (Narrative tenses) and makes minor errors
points of the total of verbs conjugation
of 110 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
the activity. and 14 points

Low level: Makes numerous errors of grammar, which makes

the text difficult to understand.
It is very evident the use of online translators in the composition.
The activity was not carried out.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 4 points

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Third evaluation High level: The ideas are organized in a logical order. The
criterion: paragraphs are connected effectively which allows the reader to
easily comprehend the text.
Cohesion and If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
coherence. and 25 points

This criterion Average level: Some ideas are not clearly organized.
represents 25 Interjections are needed to connect paragraphs coherently.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
of 110 points of and 14 points
the activity.
Low level: The ideas are not in a logical order. The text in
general is unclear which makes the reader gets confused.
It is very evident the use of online translators in the composition.
The activity was not carried out.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The text is error free in terms of spelling and lexical
criterion: accuracy.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
Vocabulary. and 25 points

This criterion Average level: Sometimes the chosen words convey the idea
represents 25 clearly, but they seem stilted or repetitive.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
of 110 points of and 14 points
the activity.
Low level: The text uses a very limited vocabulary with many
mistakes in spelling and accuracy, the words don’t fit the
context, or they are misspelt
It is very evident the use of online translators in the composition.
The activity was not carried out.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 4 points
Fifth evaluation High level: The final document meets all the requirements of
criterion: the activity guide, and it is submitted to the evaluation
environment.
Activity If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
submission and 15 points

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This criterion Average level: The final document does not meet all the
represents 15 requirements of the activity guide, or it is not submitted to the
points of the total evaluation environment.
of 110 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
the activity. and 9 points

Low level: The final document is not submitted to the

evaluation environment or by any other means.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points