Name: Abdullah Shahzad

Date: 14.4.2023
Due date: Tuestday,18th April 2023
MYP 3
Task: Formative
Criteria:
A-Analyzing
B- Organizing
C-Producing Text
D-Using Language
Command Terms:
-explain
-discuss
-select
-create

Resource: Step Ahead 3

Pages: 210-211

Task 1
This task is assessed by criterion A(Analyzing), and criterion B (Organizing)
Timing recommendations: 40 minutes
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow.

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

1
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!

~by Rudyard Kipling

Questions: page 211

Understanding the text

1. What does the expression ‘keep your head’ (verse 1) mean?

The expression ‘keep your head’ means to be confident in

ourselves and not feel down like we are a failure and we can’t do
anything.

2
2. Which line in the first verse suggest you learn patience?

The fifth line in the first verse ‘If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting’ suggests you learn patience as in this verse it says to wait
which is basically patience. It says to wait and our time will come.

3. In your own words explain “ And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise”
(verse 1)

This verse says that if we get ahead of ourselves and not think that
we have or know everything like overconfidence, it will lead to
failure and ruin our lives. Being overconfident can lead to fail and
not thinking straightly.

4. What could happen if dreams became your master? Discuss.

If dreams became my master, it would be a good thing. A child

wants to get everything in the world that are for them like any
sport equipment for teens but it also depends on the dreams. If
they are good dreams then they will help me and if they are evil
then they will guide me to the wrong path.

3
5. What is another word for ‘Will’ (verse 3)?

Another word for ‘Will’ in the terms of verse 3 is ‘Feeling’ as in the

verse it says ‘Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ which
means that someone is about to give up but his will or feeling says
to hold on.

6. Write an example of metaphor in this poem.

Why do you think it is a metaphor?

‘If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with
Kings – nor lose the common touch’. This is the first two lines of
the last verse as it is comparing talking with crowds with walking
with kings without using like or as it is considered a metaphor.

7. Select an example of personification in this poem.

Why do you think it is personification?

The example of personification is ‘If you can dream - and not

make dreams your master’. This is the first line of the second
verse. I think it is a personification as it gives living thing right
which is being a master to non-living things like dreams. Dreams
can’t be master of a human so it is considered a personification.

4
8. Pick out an example of hyperbole in this poem.
Why do you think it is hyperbole?

‘With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,’ This is the sixth line of
the last verse and I think it is a hyperbole as it says that sixty
seconds is worth a distance run but hyperbole is exaggerating and
sixty second can’t be a long distance.

Task 2

This task is assessed by criterion C (Producing Text) and criterion D (Using Language)
Timing recommendations: 40 minutes

Writing Prompt:

Create a story where the character is feeling down in the dumps and he needs some
help. How can he be motivated? What happens in the end?

-Brainstorm and plan your story in bullet points only.

5
 Word count: 350

Brainstorming:
 Kid named John
 Lost his father
 Very sad
 Starts to get motivated
 Decides to follow his passion
 Friend dies
 Sad again
Planning:
 There was a kid named John.
 He lost his father
 He got very sad and demotivated.
 His friends start to get him cheered and motivated.
 He starts to follow his passion.
 His motivating friend dies.
 He is sad again

-Give your story an interesting title.

The Weeping Boy

This story is of a little boy named John who lost his father at the age of sixteen.
He was at school and was very happy playing with his friends and studying. He
went to his house after school and this time his uncle came to pick him up rather
than his father which was usual. The boy didn’t suspect anything but when he got
home, he got the drastic news by his Mom. His father died in a fire at his mechanic
factory. He was traumatized. He always wanted to open up his own mechanic store
since he wanted to follow his father’s steps.
After seeing what happened with his father, he didn’t want to be a mechanic. He
was so sad that he stopped going to school. Is friends later found about the incident
and wanted to motivate John. When he finally started to go back to school, his
friends talked to him and tried to get him on his feet so that he can follow his dream
of opening his own mechanical shop. After a few weeks of motivation, John was
ready to follow his dream despite thinking what happened to his father. He started
to pay attention in classes and then joined a mechanical workshop during his
vacations. He then got a job at a mechanical shop. The boss of that shop was
impressed and wanted to give him a promotion. He was now a chief mechanic. He
then later quit that job to start his own company.
He started to gather land for his shop and then hired labor. In memory of his
father, he named his shops after his father. ‘Quincy’s Lab’ was the name. He was
very happy with his work and wanted to continue it. His shop became the number
one shop in the country. People from different cities came to get their vehicles

6
checked at John’s shop.
One day he got invited to the mechanics buyers’ club where people could buy
other mechanical shop if the seller is willing so he wanted to get another shop in his
name so he went. He brought his best friend who motivated him most to the club
and on the way a truck crashed into their car. They both were rushed to the hospital.
John barely made it but his friend did not make it and died. John was traumatized
again.

Word Count
400 Words

7
8