GRADE 9 CLE PERFORMANCE TASK and Rubrics For Essay and Reflection Papers
GRADE 9 CLE PERFORMANCE TASK and Rubrics For Essay and Reflection Papers
GRADE 9 CLE PERFORMANCE TASK and Rubrics For Essay and Reflection Papers
Grade Level :9
Subject Title : CHRISTIAN LIVING
GOAL: Write an essay paper that analyses a chosen news article which show moral issues or
human rights violations. Then describe how the human person as “Fundamentally Good”,
“Relational and loving”, “Free and Responsible”, and “Gifted with Conscience” is violated.
Afterwards, attempt to provide a way on how to defend the identity and value of the human
person against the violation you think is showed on the chosen news article. The essay must
have a minimum of 400 words and a maximum of 500 words.
ROLE: The learner writes a 400–500-word analytic essay of a selected text news article on the basis of
its presented moral issue.
AUDIENCE: The target audience are the learners of Santo Nino Academy.
SITUATION: The learner understands how to identify moral issues that violate human identity, freedom
and conscience. The learners should also be able analyze and formulate a way on how to defend human
identity.
PRODUCT/PERFORMANCE:
An analytical essay means you will need to present some type of argument, or claim, about what you are
analyzing.
Analytical essays usually concentrate on how the piece was written – for example how certain themes
present themselves in a story. It is presenting a thesis statement.
Thesis Statement
To analyze something is to ask what that something means. An analytical essay answer how something does
what it does or why it is as it is. Therefore, a thesis statement in an analysis paper should be answering a
HOW or WHY question.
A strong thesis makes a claim about the subject that needs proving. It provides the writer (and the reader)
with a clearly focused lens through which to view the subject. A weak thesis either makes no claim or is an
assertion that does not need proving. It is a fuzzy lens that will not help the writer (or the reader) be guided
to a better understanding of the subject. Most weak thesis statements suffer because they are overly broad (or
not specific enough).
WRONG
Broad Noun + Weak verb + Vague Adjective
Child trafficking is bad
CORRECT
Specific Noun + Active verb + Assertive Prediction
A child pornography den found in Threatens the freedom and by Stripping them of their
Concepcion, Tarlac innocence of children identity and making them objects
of desire.
Summary
Briefly summarize the main points of the chosen news article and objectively identify the certain moral issue
it presents and how it violates the human person as “Fundamentally Good”, “Relational and loving”, “Free
and Responsible”, and “Gifted with Conscience”. Afterwards, attempt to provide a way to defend the
identity and value of the human person against the violation you think is showed on the chosen news article.
STANDARD:
Criteria 1 2 3 4
(Fair) (Good) (Very Good) (Excellent)
The essay is The essay is The essay is focused,
The essay poorly focused on topic focused on the purposeful, and reflects
Focus/ Main addresses topic and
Point and includes few topic and includes clear insight and ideas
includes irrelevant loosely related relevant ideas
(30%)
ideas ideas
Persuasively supports
Supports main Supports main main point with well-
Provides little or no point with some point with developed reasons and/or
Support
support for the main underdeveloped developed examples
(20%)
point reasons and/or reasons and/or
examples examples
Organization & Effectively organizes ideas
Format Little or no Some organization Organizes ideas to to build a logical, coherent
organization of of ideas to build an build an argument argument
(15%)
ideas to build an argument
(Paragraphs,
Transitions)
argument
Sufficient
experimentation Distinctive
No experimentation Very little with language and experimentation with
Originality (20%) language and usage to
nor enhancement of experimentation to usage to enhance
concepts enhance concepts concepts enhance concepts
(Expression of the
theme in a Applies higher order
creative way) No adherence to the Does not exhibit Applies basic
theme creativity creative skills to thinking and creative skills
relay ideas to relay complex ideas
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Choose a recent news article (2019-2021) in the internet or on a newspaper.
2. Choose one of the given texts to be used for the critique.
3. In a word document, write a 400–500-word essay that analyses the selected article on the basis of the
moral issue that is presents.
4. Attach your file (photo or word document) in the assigned task using your Genyo Account.
5. The essay will be scored according to the rubric, also attached on this file.
6. Consider the following information and questions in writing the essay: