Contextualized Writing Assessment - Sample
Theme: Keeping a journal
| Your teacher has given you a chance to earn extra credit in your French/German/Spanish class by keeping a journal in French/German/ Spanish. You decide to take advantage of the offer. After looking at the assignment, you decide to start right away. |
Write legibly
Write as much as you can
Show what you can do
Segment 1: A Great Day
| Situation: | Your teacher tells you to think about what a really great day is like for you, and to write about it in your journal. |
| Warm-up: | Think about your idea of a great day, then take a minute to fill in the following chart in French/German/Spanish or English. |
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| Task: |
Describe, in French/German/Spanish, your idea of a great
day. You might want to include: 1) a description of your surroundings; 2) what you do; 3) whom you are with, if anyone; 4) how you feel. |
Describe your great day in seven to ten sentences in French/German/Spanish.
View a sample student response to Segment 1 in French, German, and Spanish.
Segment 2: A Visitor
| Situation: | For your final entry, your teacher would like you to write some questions for a student from a French/German/Spanish-speaking area who will be coming to visit your class soon. The class has an opportunity for a question-and-answer session with the visitor and your teacher wants the class to be well prepared with questions. |
| Warm-up: | Think about what you want to ask the French/German/Spanish-speaking visitor, then respond below in French/German/ Spanish or English. You may want to ask about the climate, interesting places to visit, about what young people do for work and entertainment (i.e. music, food, going out, etc.) |
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Things you want to know:
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| Task: |
In your journal, write at least five questions for the French/German/
Spanish-speaking student who is coming to your class. You
might want to include questions about: 1) the climate; 2) what young people do for work and entertainment; 3) interesting places to visit, etc. |
Write at least five questions for the visiting student in French/German/Spanish.
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