Grade 6

Literature Project
Term 3
Name:___________________
Class: ______
Your project consists of THREE SECTIONS:

SECTION A: RESEARCH (10 MARKS)

SECTION B: WRITING (30 MARKS)
SECTION C: ORAL (20 MARKS)

Racheltjie De
Beer Folklore
SECTION A: RESEARCH (10 MARKS)
Conduct research on the folklore and then answer
the questions that follow:

1. Which American story, does the one of Racheltjie de Beer, share

similarities with?
______________________________________________________
(1)
2. When and where did this tragedy take place?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(2)
3. How old was Rachel and her brother when this happened?
____________________________________________________
(1)
4. What did the people of the village go look for?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(1)
5. What did Rachel find to shield her and her brother from the cold
and explain why it was a good idea?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(1)
 6. Was the shelter enough to shield her and her brother from the
cold? Explain your answer.
Yes No

______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(1)
7. What did she also do to try and save her little brother’s life?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(1)
8. Explain what happened in the end in one sentence.
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(1)
9. Do you see Rachel as a heroin in this folktale?
______________________________________________________
(1)
Total Section A: 10
SECTION B: WRITING (30 MARKS)
You have to write an essay about a folklore of
Racheltjie De Beer.

1. Planning
Draft
2. Drafting
Title: ______________________
3. Editing
4. Revising
5. Publishing your final.
Title: ______________________
 Criteria 6 5-4 3 0-2
Understands Writing process indicates Writing process is adhered Writing process is not No evidence of the
and applies a coherence (Link)of to but does not indicate a totally adhered to. 1 writing process
writing planning, first, draft, coherence(link)between or more of the
process editing (errors evident), each process. processes is omitted.
and final presentation
Introduction • Opening sentence • Opening sentences is • Opening sentence • Opening and closing
and closing engages and captivates engaging but does not tries to engage the sentences fail to grab
sentences the readers' attention captivate the readers' readers' attention the reader's
• Closing sentence is attention but is vague. attention
interesting and • Closing sentence is • Closing sentence is
captivating related to piece but poor and unrelated
un-captivating
Uses • The writing is free of • The writing contains 2-3 • The writing • The writing contains
appropriate misspellings misspellings contains 4-5 6-8 misspellings
grammar, • Words are capitalised • 2-3 words are not misspellings • 6-8 words are not
spelling and correctly. capitalised correctly. • 4-5 words are not capitalised correctly.
punctuation • Sentences are • 6-8 sentences are capitalised correctly. • 0-3 sentences are
punctuated correctly punctuated correctly • 4-5 sentences are punctuated correctly
• Writing is free of • Writing contains 2-3 punctuated correctly • Writing contains 6-8
grammatical errors grammatical errors • Writing contains 4-5 grammatical errors
grammatical errors.
Structure • Is neat, legible, and • Is neat, legible and • Is neat, legible and • Is not neatly, legibly
presented in an poorly presented in poorly presented in presented, in an
appropriate format appropriate format an inappropriate appropriate format
• Paragraphs are on par • Includes only images format • Does have any
3 paragraphs - Grade 4 and references paragraphs.
4 paragraphs - Grade 5 Paragraphs are not on par,
5 paragraphs - Grade 6 but structure is
maintained.
Content • Aligned to format of
genre, e.g. Fable, story,
drama, poem
• Is written in own words
• Information is relevant
to the selected genre
• shows evidence of
thorough research
• Aligned to format of • Not aligned to • Not aligned to format
genre, e.g. Fable, story, format of genre, e.g. of genre, e.g. Fable,
drama, poem Fable, story, drama, story, drama, poem
• Is not entirely written in poem • Is not written in own
own words • Is not written in words
• Information is fairly own words • Information is not
relevant to the selected • Selected relevant to the
genre information only is selected genre
• shows evidence of some relevant to the • No research is
research selected genre evident
• No original research
is evident

Learner’s Marks

Understands and Introduction and Uses appropriate Structure Content Final MARK
applies writing closing sentences grammar, spelling
process and punctuation
/6 /6 /6 /6 /6 /30

TOTAL SECTION B: 30

SECTION C: ORAL (20 MARKS)

Instructions:
Prepare the oral presentation based on the
research you did on the story of Racheltjie De Beer.
Remember to make it interesting with visuals.
Your presentation will focus on the following:
✔ Good opening / introduction to the genre and research that you
have done.
✔ How well you pronounce your words and the use of punctuation.

✔ Appropriate body language and tone of voice

✔ Use of resources and visuals to enhance the presentation.

Speaking Very good Good Average Unsatisfactory Not
achieved
Project

____/ 20 5 4 3 2 1
Research and Very good research Good research Average research Limited research Poor content
quality of done, and content done and content done and content done and content and limited to
content presented is very presented is good is average is satisfactory. no research
good done
Pronunciation Very good Good Average Unsatisfactory Poor
and use of pronunciation and pronunciation and pronunciation and pronunciation and pronunciation
punctuation very good use of good use of relative, good use limited use of and no use of
punctuation punctuation of punctuation punctuation punctuation
Appropriate Body language used Body language Average use of Unsatisfactory use Body language
body language very well during the used well during body language of body language inappropriate
presentation the presentation during the during the for the
presentation presentation presentation
Use of Very good use of Good use of Average use of Unsatisfactory use Limited to no
resources and resources and 3 or resources and 2 resources and 1 of resources and use of
visuals to more visuals used. visuals used visual used visuals are lacking. resources and
create a good visuals
project

Total Section C: 20