Single Sex Education

Single Sex Education

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Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about writing an argument, discussing, and defending your point of view.

In the future, the chances are you will have to make a choice about how your son or daughter will be educated. From your school experiences, argue the case for or against single sex education. You may use the quotes below to help you form your argument.


If you would like to know more about the features of an argument, ask your teacher for Writing an argument - Learning intention guide .

Task administration: 
Level:
5
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
argument, opinion, self-assessment, structure and language
Description of task: 
A writing task, where students argue a case for or against single sex education, discussing and defending their point of view.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • choose effective content, language, and text structure
  • generate content that is relevant to the task
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.

 

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Creating texts to influence others, sets 4-5
Writing meaningful text: text features, sets 5-7
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
For students to self or peer assess this task, use the Assessment Checklist: Writing an argument - Learning intention guide.