History Presentation

ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY YEAR 4

History‘A Convicts Perspective’ Oral Presentation

Section1:
Overview
This task will assess all students’ in their ability to produce, rehearse and present a video
recording of themselves from a convict’s perspective. Students will need to include
information about convict life, the positives and negatives they face during their journey
on the First Fleet and what their life was like on arrival in Australia.

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into
account the particular purpose and audiences (ACELY1689)

Section 2: Student Activity

 Your oral presentation will need to include the following:

o What life was like before you became a convict.

o How you became a convict.
o What the journey was like on the First Fleet.
o The positives and negatives experienced during transportation.
o What life was like on arrival in Australia.

 You will need to write an information piece which includes the information above,
rehearse and video record yourself to present it to the audience.
 You will be using (Do Ink) to record your oral presentation.
 Costumes and props can be used if they are appropriate.
 Your video recording should be 2 – 3 minutes long. Maximum 3 minutes
 Due date: Week 10 – Wednesday 27th June period 6

Section 3: Marking Key

See attached Marking Key

Something I did well was….

Something I could have improved was…

By doing this task I learnt…

Section 4: Marking Key

A B C D
Excellent High Satisfactory Limited
 Achievement Achievement Achievement Achievement
Creating & Creates coherent
Responding Creates coherent Creates structured
and structured oral
and well-structured oral texts to explain
texts to explain
oral texts to explain ideas for different Creates simple oral
ideas for different
ideas for different audiences, using texts for a familiar
audiences, using
audiences, using some images and audience.
images and detail
relevant images detail to extend key
to extend key
and detail to ideas.
ideas.
extend key ideas.

Communication Speaks clearly and

Speaks clearly and
Skills coherently, Speaks clearly and
coherently, using
effectively using coherently with
tone, pace, pitch
tone, pace, pitch some use of tone, Attempts to speak
and/or volume with
and/or volume with pace, pitch and/or clearly to a familiar
the purpose of
the purpose of volume to familiar audience.
engaging familiar
engaging familiar and/or unfamiliar
and unfamiliar
and unfamiliar audiences.
audiences.
audiences.

Purposefully uses
Uses body Uses some body Makes little attempt
body language,
language, gestures language, gestures to use non-verbal
gestures and eye
and/or eye contact. or eye contact. behaviours.
contact.

Can effectively use May use notes or Makes some use of

Relies on notes or
notes or visual aids visual aids to stay notes or visual aids
visual aids.
to stay on topic. on topic. to stay on topic.

Effectively uses
Uses relevant props Uses props or
relevant props or Attempts to use
or multimedia to multimedia to
multimedia to props or
enhance enhance
enhance multimedia.
presentations. presentations.
presentations.

Explains the Describes the Identifies the Provides some facts

History significance of an significance of an significance of an about an historical
historical event and historical event and historical event and event.
provides relevant provides examples provides simple
examples of of change. examples of
change. change.

Explains the Describes, in detail, Describes the Identifies some

experiences of an the experiences of experiences of an facts about an
individual and/or an individual and/or individual and/or individual and/or
group in the past. group in the past group in the past. group.

Personal Effort:

Teacher Comment: