- TEXT IMPROVEMENT
GRAMMAR AND
PUNCTUATION - ASSIGNMENT
Big Ideas Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed
Curricular Competency
Create and Communicate Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
feate and communicate: • Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaning full literary and
informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Content
Language features, structures, and conventions language change elements of style
First Peoples Principle of Learning Learning involves patience and time
Name: _Harisnt Singh
Your task is to write a COHESIVE paragraph (or several if required), in which you demonstrate
your ability to correctly, effectively, and succinctly incorporate each of the punctuation marks
listed below:
C
Hihen
Period
Sigle De Rourel Saare
quotes quotes bachets skets
dash
ma
mart
In addition to the punctuation, you are asked to incorporate a variety of nouns, with several of
them being PROPER nouns, which require capitalization.
For this assignment, you are not being evaluated on the level of textual engagement, but
rather, on the precision of the language. Your goal is to be as correct as possible, not as
interesting
Rubric:
Does not meet grada
descriptors
Work does not
meet a minimum
description of
achievement
Emerging -40% Developing -SOK Proficient -60% Extensive -70%
Text is mostly Text is
Text has several Text is cohesive
incohesive approximately 50% elements which are Text successfully
-Text demonstrates cohesive
cohesive, but some demonstrates
a few examples Text demonstrates which are not proper grammar
proper grammar some proper
Text demonstrates and punctuation
and punctuation
grammar and
mostly proper usage
usage, but the
punctuation usage
Brammar and
majority of the text but contains punctuation usage,
is either incorrect, several elements but does contain a
jarring, or does not which are either few elements
contain the
incorrect or janring which are either
majority of
incorrect or jarring
required elements
Extending -BOX
Text is perfectly
cohesive
Text perfectly
successfully, and
effectively
demonstrates
proper grammar
and punctuation
usage