Report/Presentation Ideas

Assessment Criteria

Program Area: Social Studies (History)
Criterion: Analysis of historical information
Attainment Descriptors:

• Reads and interprets primary source materials, drawing on information and ideas in these materials to formulate and support their work
  
• Demonstrates an understanding of the required historical elements that form the basis of the essay (conditions of treatment of aboriginals, conditions of life on fur trade route, etc.

Program Area: Language, Reading
Criterion: Read and demonstrate and understanding of non-fiction materials
Attainment Descriptor:

• Analyzes and interprets information from a variety of primary and secondary sources
  
• Compares own ideas, values, and perspectives with those in a text

Program Area: Language, Writing
Criterion: Select and use appropriate writing forms with a focus on essays
Attainment Descriptor:

• Selected and used the level of language and voice appropriate to the specific purpose and intended audience
  
• Applied knowledge of report structure to organize a short essay, including and introduction, a body and a conclusion

Program Area: Language, Writing
Criterion: Preparing a presentation
Attainment Descriptor:

• Student presentation is well scripted and prepared
  
• Required information conveyed effectively
  
• Good use of furniture, props, decorations and/or multi-media

Program Area: Oral and Visual Communication
Criterion: Listen to andcommunicate connected ideas and opinions
Attainment Descriptor:

• Speaks clearly and uses variety in volume, rate, tone and pitch, pause, stress and emphasis, inflection, fluency.

Program Area: Fine Arts, Drama
Criterion: Creative Work
Attainment Descriptor:

• Use of body: controls and coordinates body, uses gestures and facial expressions
  
• Focus: concentrates and stays involved and in character
  
• Social skills: works cooperatively within groups, listens and responds to others