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Performance Task
English • Grade 6

Name: Date:

PERFORMANCE TASK #19

Newspaper Hunt
Goal
Look for compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in a published news
article.

Role
You are an English enthusiast and would like to practice what you have just learned in your
English class about different sentence types.

Audience
Your audience will be your teacher and classmates.

Situation
The challenge involves choosing a news article that interests you and still contains all
varieties of sentence types according to structure.

Product, Performance, and Purpose

1. Cut and paste the article into a short bond paper.
2. Encircle or highlight all the conjunctions used.
3. In a writing pad, copy the ten sentences each of compound, complex, and
compound-complex.
4. Write a summary of the article under the cited sentences.
5. Print parts of your finished product on short bond paper, size font 12,
double-spaced.

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Performance Task
English • Grade 6

Standards and Criteria

Table 1. Rubric for Newspaper Hunt

Criteria Does Not Nearly Meets Meets Exceeds Score

Meet Expectations Expectations Expectations
Expectations 2 3 4
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Content The summary The summary The summary The summary

(50%) does not contains a contains a contains
Sentence types. (
contain few few sufficient
10 for each
conjunctions. highlighted highlighted conjunctions
type)
conjunctions. conjunctions. highlighted.

Conjunctions There are 1-3

highlighted sentences There are 4-6 There are 7-8 There are
for each type. sentences sentences 9-10
for each type. for each type. sentences
for each type.

Logical The ideas are The ideas are The ideas are The ideas are
Organization unrelated. somehow mostly all related.
(30%)
The logical related. The related. The The logical
Refers to the
progression logical logical progression
logical
of the progression progression of the
progression of
details/events details/event of the of the details/event
and transition s and details/event details/event s and
between ideas transition s and s and transition
between transition transition between
ideas are between between ideas are
unclear. ideas is ideas are exceptionall
somehow mostly clear. y clear.
clear.

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Performance Task
English • Grade 6

Language Use The Some A few Virtually no

(20%) summary is spelling, spelling, spelling,
Refers to the
filled with mechanics, mechanics, mechanics,
spelling,
spelling, grammar, grammar, grammar,
mechanics,
mechanics, and usage and usage and usage
grammar, and
usage grammar and mistakes are mistakes are mistakes are
usage found. found. found.
mistakes.

Total Score =