KS3 English Creative Writing and Comprehension Activities and Assessment Booklet

KS3 English Creative Writing and Comprehension Activities and Assessment Booklet (9 pages).

The student is required to read a short story (about a mystery involving snowy weather and a robotic character) and then answer 26 questions (relating to imagery, word choice, puns etc) on this. The student then has to decide whether a series of 20 statements related to the short story are true, false or whether there is insufficient evidence to decide.   Students need to justify their answers.

An article and a blog entry on the topic of robotics is provided and students have to answer 12 questions on the content of these. A related research activity is then suggested - the student may use this research to write a blog post similar to the one provided.

The next task involves the student having to imagine that he/she is starting a new business. A series of 15 questions to ask oneself when considering self-employment is provided and the student needs to use their responses to these questions to structure a report on the topic before critically evaluating an example web-page for a business as well as an associated business card.

Finally, the student is presented with a table of options for genre, symbols, characters, themes and atmosphere from which the student chooses a certain combination to use as the basis for his/her own short story.

The tasks are linked together using the idea of robotics and the possible consequences of the development and use of new technologies in general.

This booklet may be used for assessment purposes - the complete booklet has a total of 200 marks available.