HELP, DS needs homework help, how to write an assessment

[SarahBeth9394]

A page about a page. Well to me that would mean use alot of descriptive language (extra adjectives) to really explain what he is saying. My son is a short and to the point kid. The shortest route to achieve the goal type. So I have to tell him to be more descriptive when writing an assessment, report, or assignment about a story or a book someone else has authored. But when he writes his own stories he really gets into it and all I usually do is proof read for punctuation if he needs it.

 

[debilorrah]

Pm WriterOfWords - she is a teacher - she can probably help you. Sorry Kate!!!!

 

[Bluemoon420]

My daughter's in highschool ( Sophomore this year) She's never heard of writing an assessment. She is saying email the teacher anyway. They check those emails regardless if they are at school or not. She said to ask what he means by assessment? Summarize the story, explain what the characters are doing, feeling, thinking. Is it a cause and effect type article?
Is it fiction or non fiction?

If it's fiction your probably figuring out the characters etc. while a non fiction is figuring out the writers opinion, etc.

I can't keep up typing as fast as she's talking LOL

Bluemoon

 

[key west chick]

Its called Completely Absentminded by Mario Benedetti. "He" is basically the only character in the story. He drifts from town to town, country to country, only to find he has absentmindedly gone back to his own country where he is exiled. The directions state to write a 1 page assessment. To write in complete sentences, spelling and grammar will be graded strictly. Some questions to get you started: what is the cultural relevance of this story? What do you think is the authors purpose for the reader? Thats it. Its not supossed to sound like a book report DS says. I have e-mailed the teacher but haven't heard from her. Since its due tomorrow, he has to write something or get a 0 for it.

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
First day of school, no instructions and it's due tomorrow?? Uh oh.

 

[key west chick]

I guess welcome to high school

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I would just answer those questions that they gave you and add in some quotes from the stories to support your answers. That will fill up a page real quick.

 

[WriterofWords]

Some questions to get you started: what is the cultural relevance of this story? What do you think is the authors purpose for the reader?

To write an assessment of a story you have to look at your own take on it; what you get out of it.

First off the original author was Harry Morales, he wrote a lot of political historical fiction about his own experiences. Not all of was fiction but was represented as such.

What is the cultural relevance of this story?

How does this book or story make an impact on the understanding of the cultures discussed in the story? How does this relate to your own culture? The culture you live in or around? What is the greatest cultural group in the area you live in and how does this story fit in or against it?
By cultural relevance he needs to look at the first paragraph:

He never considered himself an exiled politician. He abandoned his country out of a strange impulse that was forged in three stages......

Yes I have the story on my computer lol I teach it!

Ask himself: "What kind of countries exile politicians??" Compare and contrast, make a T Chart to start with or a web. Does the US exile politicians? Notice in the last paragraph:
in his complete absentmindedness, he had ended up in his own country again. Would we do that in our country? What kind of country would? Do we have people in the US hiding from those kinds of countries? Do we live near a country like that? How would being in or from a country that exiles you, then kidnaps you on your return, affect how you see life?

What do you think is the authors purpose for the reader?

What the author trying to entertain you? Teach you? Warn you? Scare you? Why? Give me supporting reasons why you think the author wrote that? Where do you think the author was when he wrote it? It's a translation, who was the original author and why was it important enough to be translated?

His teacher is trying to see where he is in his ability to read into a story. To predict, to understand, to comprehend and most of all to look deeper than the words. Look into this story, not at it.

Hope it helps a little, it really is a good story!

ETA: Look at the description and clues of the man in the story, 4 languages,,, well traveled,, was he really absent minded or was it something else?​

 

[babyspice35]

9th grade?

Uh, having just graduated, and taken the SAT and PSAT last year I know that the teacher probably had given him some kind of outline. Perhaps he wasn't paying attention? No offense, sometimes teachers are CrAzY!! [they see what you can do with nothing, very hard but kinda fun]
I've been in classes ranging from regular to A.P... and typically you would write the given; (5 paragraphs, first is the intro, 3 supporting and last conclusion) Beyond that the 3 supporting topics could include 1, the summary, 2, what he thought it ment/what he got out of it [his interpretation] and 3, perhaps what is its use in everyday life or how he can compare it to events in the world.

Just trying to help, that was typically the proper and most common reading comprehension outline for my high school career and the SATs

Good luck!
and tell him to have fun in high school.




****EDIT: sorry misread DS for DD...

 

[key west chick]

Holy cow, thanks! He still is struggling but at least I can understand a bit better. Kinda cool you teach it. This is gonna be a year long struggle again. He is 1 of 3 freshman, the rest are mostly juniors.