LEARNER CALA GUIDE

SCHOOL: MARLBOROUGH HIGH

NAME OF LEARNER:
CLASS:
DATE of SUBMISSION: 15 October 2021 ( to teacher)
22 October 2021 (to Zimsec)
LEARNING AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LEVEL: FORM 4
SYLLABUS TOPIC: Child abuse in Zimbabwe
CALA TITLE: Stop child abuse.
COMPETENCES/SKILLS: Research, investigating and problem solving

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BACKGROUND- LEARNER GUIDE
It has been observed that child abuse has become rampant in Zimbabwe. Several factors are responsible for the practice in which children are
abused by relatives, guardians and strangers. Living in poverty, the breakdown of our culture and moral decadency have largely contributed to
child abuse. A better understanding of the causes and effects of child abuse will help lessen the rate at which children are abused.

The CALA
This CALA has 3 parts, part A, B and C. You are required to respond to all of them.

Part A (Data collection)

• Research and take down notes on the different types of abuses children in your community are exposed to. (30)
• Present your findings in the form of a graph or pie chart. (10)

Part B (Evidence of child abuse)

• From your findings, bring out evidence of child abuse in the form of pictures. (20)
• Give a short write-up to accompany the evidence.(10)

Part C (Awareness campaign)

• Design a poster as an awareness campaign against child abuse. (20)
• Below the poster write down in point form what should be done to end child abuse.(10)

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CALA ASSESSMENT TIPS
• Research widely including the internet
• Identify different forms of child abuse
• Data presentation to be in the form of graphs or pie chart
• Evidence should include pictures and accompanying short write-ups
• Creativity in designing the awareness campaign poster is an added advantage
• Solutions should be realistic.

HOW YOU WILL BE ASSESSED

ASSESSMENT FOR PART A
✓ Your teacher will assess your wide research notes written in point form.
✓ You will be assessed on data presentation in the form of graphs or pie chart

ASSESSMENT FOR PART B

✓ Marks will be awarded for the evidence presented in picture form accompanied with short notes.

ASSESSMENT FOR PART C

✓ Your teacher will award marks on the design of the awareness campaign poster with pictures and short notes.
✓ You will also be assessed on realistic possible solutions to stop child abuse.

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 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS out of 100

DIMENSIONS/ EXCELLENT MARK GOOD MARK SATISFACTORY MARK UNSATISFACTORY MARK

CRITERIA
20-30 17-19 14-16 0-13
Research and Excellently Good research Satisfactory Very little research
graph structured notes in point research notes in done and presented in
presentation research notes in form point form prose form
point form.
(40 marks) Good data Satisfactory No graph / badly
Well presented presentation in presentation of presented graph
data in graph or the form of data in the form of
pie chart form graphs or pie graph or pie chart
chart

20-30 16-19 13-15 0-12

Evidence and Excellent Good evidence Satisfactory unsatisfactory
write-up evidence of accompanied by audience audience engagement,
pictures pictures and engagement, fair poor voice projection,
(30 marks) accompanied by appropriate voice projection, poor introduction, no
appropriate write-up satisfactory repetition for
write-up introduction, fair emphasis, poor
use of repetition, conclusion
satisfactory
conclusion
Awareness Display of four 20-30 Display of three 16-19 Display of two of 13-15 Display of one of the 0-12
campaign: poster of the following: of the following: the following: following: ability to
design and ability to identify ability to identify ability to identify identify target

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solutions target audience, target audience, target audience, audience, clarity of
clarity of clarity of clarity of campaign campaign message,
(30 marks) campaign campaign message, cost cost effectiveness, use
messages, cost message, cost effectiveness, use of various media.
effectiveness, use effectiveness, use of various media
of various media of various media