Preparation for Friday's session

This Friday's session is all about assessing writing. We'll be looking at what we should reward and penalise when a student puts pen to paper in an exam situation. To that end, here is a task, and some answers, which you should look at and decide on a mark out of 20. 

The students were given these visual prompts and told to write the story in the past, and that they should choose a title for the story, beyond that no further instructions were given. 

Answer 1:

Answer 2:

Answer 3:

Answer 4:

After you have graded the stories, give some thought to what it was that you valued and/or penalised and what made one better than the other. It should make for interesting discussion and will benefit the students when we come to mark the writing parts of the exams in December.