Name: Maderazo, Dheine Louise L.

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Year and section: 1st Year – A1C Date: March 01, 2019

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT # 1

Write with Numbers in Nature

Create an acrostic poem using Numbers in Nature. In an acrostic poem, the

letters in the word form the first letter of each line of the poem. A line may be just
one word or a phrase. Numbers in Nature has fifteen letters, so the poem will have
fifteen lines. Two examples for the word “Math” is given.

N othing in this world would make sense without

U nderstanding and accepting the essence of
M athematics where numbers and logics sprout
B ecause as ironic as it may seem,
E very challenge or problem it screams,
R ational mostly,
S hows us the reality, that
I t is, just like the food we eat, a
N urturing kind of treat, a
N ecessity in our everyday lives
A llowing us to survive, by
T hinking of way to
U tilize our skills and resources in order to
R esolve anything,
E ven the little things we experience.
 Math Poem Rubric
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Ideas The poem is The poem may The poem is not The poem is
focused. Sensory need to be more focused. Too few unfocused or
details clearly carefully focused. sensory details unclear. Details
develop, describe, Some sensory reveal the subject. are random or
and reveal the details reveal the The ideas fail to missing. The
subject. Carefully subject. The consistently help ideas do not
chosen ideas help poet’s ideas the reader support the
the reader to sometimes help experience what reader’s
completely the reader is being experience of the
experience what is experience what described. topic.
being described. is being
described.
Organization The description is The description is The description is The writing is not
organized logically organized not well organized at all.
and creatively. logically, but ideas organized. Some Most ideas are
need to be better of the ideas are hard to follow.
related. hard to follow.
Voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice is
connects with the connects with the connects with the very weak or
reader from reader in some reader poorly. absent.
beginning to end. places.
Word Choice Precise, descriptive Some words are Lack of precise Words are basic
words bring the precise and and descriptive and very limited.
subject to life. descriptive, but words weakens Figurative
Figurative language others are not. the poem. language and/or
and comparisons Figurative Figurative comparisons are
create a clear language and/or language and/or not used.
picture. comparisons comparisons do
sometimes create not create a clear
a clear picture. picture.
Sentence A variety of Some sentences Many sentences Sentences and/or
sentences and/or and/or lines are and/or lines are lines are
Fluency lines adds interest varied and not varied or incomplete or
and energy to the interesting. The interesting. Most incorrect. The
description. The poem flows of the poem does poem does not
poem flows very smoothly some of not flow flow or show
smoothly. Reading the time. It can be smoothly. It is feeling.
this aloud with read aloud with difficult to read
feeling is effortless. some feeling. aloud with feeling.
Conventions The poem has been The poem Many errors are The poem has not
carefully edited. contains some repeated. Line- been edited.
Grammar, usage, minor errors that by-line editing in Serious errors
and mechanics are may distract the specific places is affect or alter the
correct. reader, but needed. Errors meaning.
meaning remains interfere with
clear. meaning in places.
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