English FAL Grade 9 ANA Exemplars 2012 Memo

ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT GRADE 9 ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE EXEMPLAR TEST 2012 MEMORANDUM

QUESTION EXPECTED ANSWERS MARKING GUIDELINES MARKS 1. C – how Tanya saved her village. 1 2.1 B – Tanya 1 2.2 A – Courageous 1 3.1 A – Tanya and her family were poor. 1 3.2 B – Tanya was starving. 1 4. B – Adu Darko 1 5.1 that the people of the village were starving. 2 2 marks or 0 5.2 ‘I want to save the village.’ 2 1 mark for correct punctuation marks 1 mark for correct pronoun and tense (both must be correct) 6. had been grazing for a while. 2 2 marks or 0 7.1 D – She ought to find a new house. 1 7.2 A – She should visit the hospital today. 1 8. See assessment rubric attached. 5 Mark out of 10 and convert to 5 marks 9.1 A – alliteration. 1 9.2 C – life is fruitless. 1 9.3 B – metaphor. 1 10. B – teach readers about the world’s largest 1 rodent. 11. D – Capybaras eat vegetation. 2 12.  A capybara is the world’s largest rodent.  It is a vegetation eater. 4 Any 4 points  Its large incisors keep growing throughout its 1 mark for each point life.  A capybara lives in large groups.  It can give birth to six babies at a time.It can give birth to …  It can run, jump and swim.  A capybara has eyes, ears and nostrils near the top of its head.  It can dive deep and hold its breath. 13.1 A – water plant 1 13.2 B – Capybaras live in groups. 1 13.3 Grasses are the main food in capybara’s diet 1 Any answer with a similar meaning 14.1 D – To prevent them from growing 1 14.2 Capybara like to be with others 2 Any answer with a similar meaning 15.1 D – although 1 15.2 C – The child is crying because she is hungry. 1 16.  Pigeons were used to send messages in the 12th century. 3 Any three points  Kings used pigeons to get information from the 1 mark for each point battlefield.  Pigeons were the fastest and reliable means of sending messages.  Carrier pigeons differ from ordinary pigeons.  Modern communication is taking over as the 1

fastest means of communication. 17. Messages will be carried by pigeons to the 2 2 marks or 0 soldiers far beyond the enemy lines. OR Messages will be carried to the soldiers far beyond the enemy lines (by pigeons). 18. You won’t believe what I did yesterday. I caught 4 1 mark for each correct answer this really big fish. It’s called a carp. I think it weighed about 2 kilograms! Tom and I went to the dam early in the morning. 19. See assessment rubric attached. 6 Mark out of 12 and convert to 6 marks 20. See assessment rubric attached. 8 Mark out of 16 and convert to 8 marks Assessment rubric for diary entry (Question 5) MARKS 10 3 MARKS 2 MARKS 1 MARK 0 MARKS Format and Complete Good adherence Partial adherence Very limited length adherence to to format. to format. adherence to format. format. 3 marks Appropriate Fairly appropriate Inappropriate Far too long or too length. length. length. short. 3 marks 2 marks 1 mark 0 marks Appropriate Mostly appropriate Inappropriate Completely Language structure and structure and structure and tone. inappropriate 3 marks tone. tone. structure and tone. Variation of Complete Incomplete Weak sentence sentence types. sentences. sentences. structure. Good use of Few grammatical, Many Numerous language, spelling and grammatical, spelling, grammar, spelling punctuation spelling and grammatical and and punctuation errors. punctuation errors. punctuation errors. with few errors. 4 marks 2-3 marks 1 mark 0 marks Complete Adheres to the Mentions the topic Completely off the Content adherence to the topic with minor with no adherence topic. 4 marks topic. deviations. to it. Outstanding Moderate Partial Purpose not achievement of achievement of achievement of achieved. purpose. purpose. purpose. 2

Assessment rubric for paragraph writing (Question 19) 12 Marks 3 marks 2 marks 1 mark 0 marks Planning Effective and Correct sentence Some errors in Poor sentence correct sentence structure. sentence structure. structure. (3 marks) structure. All ideas in the mind map used. Most ideas in the Some ideas in the No ideas in the mind map used. mind map used. mind map used. Effective introduction and conclusion. Introduction and Ineffective No introduction, no conclusion introduction, weak conclusion. adequate. conclusion, 4 marks 3 marks 1-2 marks 0 marks Language Effective and Correct sentence Some errors in Poor sentence correct sentence structure. sentence structure. structure. (4 marks) structure. Use of a wide Use of a fairly wide Use of adequate Use of limited range of range of vocabulary. vocabulary. vocabulary. vocabulary. Correct language Few errors in Some errors in Many errors in usage, spelling language usage, language usage, language usage, and punctuation. spelling and spelling and spelling and punctuation. punctuation. punctuation. 5 marks 3 marks 1-2 marks 0 marks Content Complete Adheres to the Mentions the topic Completely off the adherence to the topic with minor with no adherence topic. (5 marks) topic. deviations. to it. Outstanding Moderate Partial Purpose not achievement of achievement of achievement of achieved. purpose. purpose. purpose. 3

Assessment rubric for paragraph writing (Question 20) 16 Marks 4 marks 3 marks 1-2 marks 0 marks Planning Evidence of Evidence of Some evidence of No evidence of (4 marks) thorough planning. planning. planning. planning. Effective Introduction and Ineffective No introduction, introduction and introduction, weak no conclusion, conclusion conclusion. conclusion. adequate. . . . 6 marks 4-5 marks 2-3 marks 0-1 marks Language Effective and Correct sentence Some errors in Poor sentence (6 marks) correct sentence structure. sentence structure. structure. structure. Use of a wide Use of a fairly wide Use of adequate Use of limited range of range of vocabulary. vocabulary. vocabulary. vocabulary. Correct language Few errors in Some errors in Many errors in usage, spelling and language usage, language usage, language usage, punctuation. spelling and spelling and spelling and punctuation. punctuation. punctuation. 6 marks 4-5 marks 2-3 marks 0-1 marks Content Complete Adheres to the topic Mentions the topic Completely off (6 marks) adherence to the with minor with no adherence the topic. topic. deviations. to it. Outstanding Moderate Partial achievement Purpose not achievement of achievement of of purpose. achieved. purpose. purpose. . 4