AC9E4LA03 • Homework
Complete eight original reading, writing and speaking tasks. An adult checks your actual work; suitable alternative answers are welcome.
Open practiceUse the space below or separate paper. Spoken work may use writing or your usual communication support. Work through a few tasks per session. No external account or video is needed.
Read: “Eli carried a paper crown to the play. A gust blew it behind the bench. Eli asked a friend to hold the curtain while he reached it. He put the crown on and stepped onto the stage.” Identify the opening, problem and resolution. Explain how the ending connects to the problem.
A, invented event notes: “At 11:00 we entered the aquarium. At 11:15 we watched fish. At 11:30 we left.” B, imaginative recount: “At midnight I entered a fish’s dream. First I swam through a glass castle. Then I woke on a shell.” Explain one shared structure and one difference in content. Rewrite A as two or three linked recount sentences.
CSIROpedia fact card: Ruby Payne-Scott completed an MSc in physics in 1936; she was born in Grafton in 1912; she joined CSIR in 1941; she graduated from the University of Sydney in 1933. Write a short biography in time order. Explain how dates and the word she help its purpose.
Supplied design facts: trolley Red has two shelves and four wheels; trolley Green has three shelves and four wheels. Write a two-sentence comparative report. Then begin a separate part-whole report about trolley Red, naming its shelves and wheels. Explain how the grouping changed.
Read A: “A return slot receives a book. The book slides into a tray. A worker later sorts the returned books.” Read B: “The tray could not hold another book because it was full.” Explain whether each mainly follows stages or gives a cause. Add one sentence to B that explains the result without inventing a new cause.
Invented mini-story, The Lantern Trail: “Two friends notice lanterns appearing along an empty lane. Each lantern carries a different painted animal. They decide to follow the trail and find who made it.” Prepare and deliver a short book talk: title, brief gist and a recommendation with a reason. Write your talk or use your usual communication support.
Poem A: “A gold window, / a square of warmth / in the wet street.” Poem B: “The old gate creaks. / I remember racing through it. / How quickly a place can fill with years.” Explain how A describes and B reflects. Write two or three new lines for either purpose, then explain your arrangement.
Invented class evidence: twelve reusable name cards were used at a meeting, and all twelve were collected afterwards. Write a short persuasive email asking the organiser to keep using them. Include a position, the evidence and a closing request. Explain the difference between your email’s form and its organisation.
Example or expected evidence: Opening: Eli takes the crown to the play. Problem: it blows behind the bench. Resolution: he retrieves it with help and can perform. The ending shows the lost crown is recovered so the play can continue.
Adult check: Require three stages grounded in the text and a clear problem-to-ending connection. Accept plain-language labels. A list of events without their jobs needs follow-up.
Example or expected evidence: Both retell events in time order. A follows supplied aquarium-visit notes; B invents a dream journey. Recount: We entered the aquarium at 11:00. Fifteen minutes later we watched fish, and at 11:30 we left.
Adult check: Require sequence in both, a factual-scenario versus imaginary distinction, and an actual rewrite preserving A’s events and times. Do not describe these invented notes as a verified real visit.
Example or expected evidence: Ruby Payne-Scott was born in Grafton in 1912. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1933, completed an MSc in physics in 1936 and joined CSIR in 1941. Dates order her life events; she refers to the person whose life is being described.
Adult check: Require all four accurately ordered events and explanations of chronology and third-person reference. Do not invent her thoughts or quotations. Source: CSIROpedia, Ruby Payne-Scott, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/payne-scott-ruby/.
Example or expected evidence: Comparison: Both trolleys have four wheels. Red has two shelves, whereas Green has three. Part-whole: Trolley Red has two shelves and four wheels. The first report matches features across two trolleys; the second describes parts of one trolley.
Adult check: Require accurate matching features in the comparison, one whole and its supplied parts in the second report, and an explicit explanation. Accept added introductory wording but no unsupported preference or new design facts.
Example or expected evidence: A follows stages of a return process. B gives a cause: the full tray has no space. An extension could be, “With no space left, another returned book would not fit in the tray.”
Adult check: Require sequence for A and cause/result for B, supported by words from each. Accept a logically equivalent extension that retains the full tray as the cause. Do not reward an unrelated account of a broken slot.
Example or expected evidence: The Lantern Trail follows two friends investigating mysterious animal lanterns. I would recommend this opening to someone who likes puzzles because the lanterns suggest clues and the maker has not yet been revealed.
Adult check: Read or observe the actual talk. Check title, accurate spoiler-safe gist and a recommendation linked to a supplied feature. Accept varied preferences and communication forms. Do not require a made-up author, final solution or claim that a complete published book was read.
Example or expected evidence: A groups images into a scene. B moves from the gate to a memory and a thought about time. Descriptive example: “Blue paint on the bench, / one silver raindrop / balanced on its edge.” The images build one scene.
Adult check: Require explanations linked to both supplied poems, an actual short poem for one chosen purpose and an explanation of its organisation. Accept other suitable images/reflections, optional rhyme and imagined speakers. A bare feeling word without a developed thought does not by itself show reflection.
Example or expected evidence: Hello, please keep using the reusable name cards. All twelve used at the meeting were collected, so they are available again. Could we use them at our next meeting? The form is an email; its argument moves from a position through evidence to a request.
Adult check: Require actual email text, accurate twelve-used/twelve-collected evidence, position and request, plus form versus argument-stage distinction. Accept friendly or formal wording. Do not infer every future card will always be returned.