Integrated English for Effective Communication

Reading and Writing Skills Lesson 9

Engaging Scenario: You are a part of a news team. Your task is to make a documentary of a
pressing problem or issue in society. Your documentary must present arguments, counterarguments,
and possible solutions. Your documentary will be screened during a Documentary Festival and your
output will be judged on the following:
Rubric for Documentary Film

Exemplary Proficient Achieving Developing

Proficiency
4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
The documen- The documen- The documen- The documenta-
tary clearly tary explores tary explores ry is poorly done,
explores the the issue/prob- the issue/prob- the story line is
issue/problem lem within the lem but there is confusing.
within the given given time. It no hook at the
Content time. It has an has a hook at the beginning and no
effective hook beginning, the interviews were
at the beginning. interviews are made.
The interviews woven together
are well woven fairly well.
together.
The quality of The quality of The quality of The quality of
the video is the video is the video is the video is poor;
excellent. Much good. Attention merely fair. Little no attention is
care is given to is given to light- attention is given given to lighting,
Video
lighting, compo- ing, composition, to lighting, com- composition,
sition, exposure, exposure, and position, expo- exposure, and
and depth of depth of field. sure, and depth depth of field.
field. of field.
The sound qual- The sound qual- The sound qual- The sound qual-
Sound
ity is excellent. ity is good. ity is average. ity is poor.

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 The concept of The concept of The concept of The concept of
persuasion and persuasion and persuasion and persuasion and
Persuasion and
problem-solution problem-solution problem-solution problem-solution
Problem-Solu-
is very evident in is present in the is only slightly does not exist in
tion
the documentary. documentary. evident in the the documentary.
documentary.
The documenta- The documenta- The documenta- The documen-
Creativity and ry demonstrates ry demonstrates ry demonstrates tary does not
Originality a high level of a moderate level some creativity. demonstrate
creativity. of creativity. creativity at all.

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