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Capstone 1 - Weekly Objectives & Assessment

 This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera. 

Hopefully, you've taken some time to think about weekly objectives and possible assessments for them. Now, write and share your weekly objective(s) and possible assessment. Remember that your activity should include:

  1. Who are the students in this course? (elementary school children, high schoolers, university students, etc)

  2. What is their level? (beginner, intermediate, advanced, etc?)

  3. What is the content of the course? (Reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, others?)

  4. 1-3 weekly objectives

  5. Assessment(s) that relate to the objectives and test students' knowledge

LESSON 1

Weekly Objectives & Assessment

WHO: Foreign high school students

LEVEL: Beginner 

CONTENT: Reading, Writing , Grammar

WEEKLY OBJECTIVES:

  • Students will be able to identify the basic sentence structures and what it consists of.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge through writing journal entries, which will show their knowledge in basic sentence structures, tenses and subject-verb agreement.

ASSESSMENTS:

  • The students journal entries will be assessed by their peers through peer-review and teacher’s evaluation using the same rubric.

  • The students’ grades will consist of the average of the 3 peer reviews (40%) and teacher’s evaluation (60%)





Grading Criteria

  • Main Idea

    • Excellent - the writer was able to completely talk about his/her family. The writer’s ideas were consistent throughout the passage.

    • Fair - the writer was able to talk about his/her family most of the time. The writer’s idea was consistent for about more than 50% of the essay.

    • Needs improvement - the writer was able to talk about his/her family at some point but not completely. The writer’s idea was consistent for less than 50% of the essay.

  • Sentence Flow

    • Excellent - the writer was able to connect his/her sentences in a talking-like manner. The writer was also able to write two paragraphs (15 sentences) about his/her family.

    • Fair - the writer was able to connect his/her sentences in a talking-like matter for more than 50% of the essay. The writer was also able to write at least a paragraph with 10 sentences about his/her family.

    • Needs Improvement - the writer's sentences are all standalone and do not connect to the next sentence naturally. The writer was able to write a paragraph with at least 7 sentences about his/her family.

  • Grammar

    • Excellent - the writer was able to use the grammar point of this lesson all throughout the essay. (grammar point: basic sentence structure = S-V-O)

    • Fair - the writer was able to use the grammar point of this lesson for more than 50% of the essay.

    • Needs Improvement - the writer was able to use the grammar point of this lesson for less than 50% of the essay.

  • Word choice

    • Excellent - the writer was able to use words that are used in a friendly conversation and was able to express it correctly.

    • Fair - the writer was able to use words that are used in a friendly conversation for most of the essay. A few errors on the expression can be slightly seen.

    • Needs Improvement - the writer was able to use words that are used in a friendly conversation for less than 50% of the essay. There are at least 5 or more errors in the word/expression usage.
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