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Work Sample & Commentary:  The Carnival Is Almost Here
The task
For an applied learning project students planned a school carnival and used the proceeds to buy food for a homeless shelter. The project was initiated by a proposal from a student. As the actual event drew near the students recognized the need for a number of documents to help manage the event. The flier included here was produced to provide some last minute details so that the event would flow as smoothly as possible.

Circumstances of performance
This sample of student work was produced under the following conditions:
alone in a group
in class as homework
with teacher feedback with peer feedback
timed opportunity for revision

What the work shows
e Reading: The student demonstrates familiarity with a variety of functional documents (i.e., documents that exist in order to get things done) and produces written or oral work that does one or more of the following:
• identifies the institutional context of the document;
• identifies the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure;
• analyzes or uses the formatting techniques used to make a document user-friendly;
• identifies any information that is either extraneous or missing in terms of audience and purpose or makes effective use of relevant information.
This work sample illustrates a standard-setting performance for the following part of the standards:
e Reading: Demonstrate familiarity with functional documents.
The work identifies the context of the flier clearly and concisely, so that readers will know immediately its purpose.

The students attempted to make the document readable by numbering the points to be made, listing the points in a logical order so that similar points are grouped together, and including a border so that the flier stands out from other papers and can be recognized easily.
The flier points out that those participating in the carnival will need to be aware of a number of procedures integral to doing their jobs. The procedures are succinct and to the point, providing an appropriate amount of information so that the participants should have no trouble following them.