Evaluation Criteria for Time Capsule Projects

100 marks – Assignments
10 marks each, based on:
•	meaningful content
•	choice of medium (paper, ppt…)
•	choice of genre (chart, etc.)
•	accuracy (no confusion!)

100 marks – Outcomes
10 marks for how well you have addressed each outcome
•	how well you appear to understand the outcome
•	how well you show the application of the outcome in the assignment that you have chosen for that outcome

Review of the interpretations of the outcomes

2.2 Respond to Texts
a. Experience various texts
iv. Compare and contrast own life situation with themes of oral, print and other media texts 

Remember that this project is a time capsule about your life – therefore the compare and contrast own life situation aspect of this assignment is automatically included for each of the possible twenty projects. 
The topic for your project (tomorrow, yesterday, school days, etc.) equates to a theme of oral, print and other media texts.  
You are covering the oral aspect through discussion with your peers or other ideas that you have heard, and the print aspect is usually covered through the other readings that I have assigned for the topics. You may also be reminded of other things that you have read on paper as you consider what you will be doing for this project. 
Other media texts are literary experiences, which may include movies, television programs, video games, posters, PowerPoint presentations or any of a variety of media texts.  Please note, if I have included a URL with the project, it may also give you ‘other media text’ information.   
When this outcome states compare and contrast a theme in your own life situation to that in some other media text, you would be showing, or stating directly, how your experience is the same or different from the experience you read or heard about in some (just one) media text. If you select the project that is your best example of work on a topic that included readings provided by me, you will very likely be able to demonstrate that you have completed this outcome.

2.2 Respond to Texts
b. Construct meaning from texts
iv. Relate the themes, emotions and experiences portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to issues of personal interest or significance

As you work on one of your projects, you must consider how oral, print or other media texts (see above) have influenced your ideas and/or format for this project.  To demonstrate this outcome, be prepared to explain what has influenced you, and how you were influenced. 
This seems very much like the above outcome, but it is different because here you are focusing on the format or content of the other media text that influenced you; and in the outcome above, you are focusing on the content of your own work and making sure it contrasts or compares to how similar content / themes have been dealt with in other works.
This outcome also goes beyond ‘theme’, because it also allows you to examine how the emotions and experiences in other media have influenced you.

2.3 Understand Forms, Elements, and Techniques
a. Understand forms and genres
ii. Evaluate the effectiveness of different types of media texts for presenting ideas and information

When you are preparing one of your projects, make sure to include excerpts from a variety of media texts.  By carefully selecting what you are including, you are demonstrating this outcome.  Some examples of how this might look could be a timeline, PowerPoint, or brochure assignment that includes some of the following: pictures, sound bites, QuickTime movies, audiotapes, poetry, descriptive writing, or memorabilia like poster art, etc.  Although several different types of media texts can be used for this assignment, they really need to become a coherent whole, instead of distinct parts that do not seem to fit together.  

2.4 Create Original Text
a. Generate ideas
Generalize from own experience to create oral, print and / OR  other media texts on a theme

You are doing this for all of your projects – so all you have to do for this one is pick your very best project and say that is your example of this outcome!  You are conveying your own experience in some sort of text – oral, print, or other media.  You might want to wait until the end to assign this outcome to a project, just because you won’t know which project is your best one until then.

2.4 Create Original Text
b.  Elaborate on a theme 
Create oral, print and other media texts on common literary themes.

This one is the one assignment where you must take a common literary theme, like love, determination, power of music, courage, loyalty… and use as many of oral, print and other media texts as possible in order to elaborate on that theme.  
It may be useful to remember that a common literary theme has stood the test of time.  Sometimes the theme has to be in

2.4 Create Original Text
c.  Structure texts
i. Create oral, print and / OR other media texts that interrelate plot, setting and character, and reveal the significance of the action.

This outcome is obviously best suited to apply to a story that you have created wherein you have ensured that the plot, setting, character and significance of action are carefully crafted.  Obviously, a clear theme would help you do this.

2.4 Create Original Text
c.  Structure texts
ii. Create oral, print and other media texts that include main and minor
characters, and show how the main character develops and changes as a
result of the action and events

There are two parts to this outcome: include a main and minor character and show how the main character develops and changes as a result of action and events.  You might be able to do this in the same story that you used for the previous outcome, and that is OK.

4.1 Enhance and Improve
b. Revise and edit
iii. Revise to combine narration, description and exposition effectively

You will have to combine narration (a story), description, and exposition (report-like writing) within one project, and you will have to edit this project until it is a coherent whole, which is what is indicated by the use of the word effectively.

4.1 Enhance and Improve
c. Enhance legibility
i. Develop personal handwriting styles appropriate for a variety of purposes

In one of your projects, you have to demonstrate that you can handwrite, and that it is neat and legible.

4.1 Enhance and Improve
c. Enhance legibility
ii. Identify and experiment with some principles of design that enhance the presentation of texts

You have notes on design elements.  For the project that demonstrates this outcome, I expect you to refer to your notes and use applicable principles of design that are described there.