Module 5: EVALUATING THE ADAPTATION OF A LITERARY TEXT

USING SELF- AND PEER ASSESSMENT BASED ON RATIONALIZED

CRITERIA
21ST CENTURY
Lesson 6: LITERARY ADAPTATION
LIT.
An adaptation is the translation of a literary work, like a poem, novel, short story, or play, into another genre,
like a drawing, musical, film, television series, or a play. Some of the earliest adaptations were based on the stories of the
Brothers Grimm, like Cinderella.
Have you watched the following movies?

Do you know that all these movies are adaptations? Why? It is because they were all novels/books and were
adapted to a movie using ICT and multimedia skills, from one genre to another. If you are to make a music video based
on a short story or poem, then you also do an adaptation of a literary text. You can also make a representation of video
games, or a recorded song and many more on your own. Probably by this time, you can already make adaptations from
what you have watched and listened to. In this lesson you will be given the privilege to make your own adaptation and
rate your own work.
1. Peer assessment is the assessment of students' work by other students of the same status. Students often undertake peer
assessment with formal self-assessment. In peer assessment, the assessor may consider the efforts exerted by the author,
maker or writer. On the other hand, the result of the assessment must also be respected and recognized by the author,
maker or writer for self-improvement. Both may do reflections by exchanging constructive feedbacks together. Peer
Assessment is valuable in helping students to learn from each other by listening, analysing and problem solving. It gives
students the opportunity to encounter diversity in different ways, critique and judge and be responsible for their own
learning.
Have you tried evaluating your peer during your elementary and high school days? Maybe, it is the other way
around because you were the one who was evaluated. A reality show is a concrete example of an event that uses
assessment. However, the contestants and the judges are not peers. This example is given just to make you grasp even
further what assessment is. The judges of a reality show choose the participants who have great singing voice quality, if
it is a singing contest. They do not pick the winners based on their whims or personal choices, instead they use particular
criteria.
What reality shows do you watch? It is the fad nowadays. We see them not just in our locality but all over the
world. If you were one of the judges of a certain singing audition show and you were tasked to make your own criteria,
how would you do it?
Here is an example of my own simple criteria for a singing contest:

Voice Quality: 70 pts

Diction: 10 pts
Clarity of Message: 10 pts
Entertainment Value: 10 pts
Total - 100pts

REMEMBER: It is important to have criteria or rubric to rationally judge or assess a certain performance or
work.

The following are the advantages and disadvantages of Peer Assessment according to Chan, 2010.
 Advantages of Peer Assessment
 Encourages students to critically reflect each other’s work
 Encourages students to be involved in the assessment process.
 Helps students develop their judgmental skills when they assess the work of other group members.
 More feedback can be generated by students compared to one or two teachers.
 Reduces the time and workload of marking for teachers.
 Discourages the problem of free rider because students tend to put extra effort to perform better in front
of their peers.
 Maintains the fairness of assessment because everyone has the chance to assess each other.
 Helps students to criticize, evaluate and apply other generic skills during the process
 Helps students to learn more from each other’s work
Disadvantages of Peer Assessment
 Peer pressure and friendship can influence the reliability of grades given by students
 Students may have a tendency to give everyone the same mark (for example, there may be agreement in
return for good grades)
 Students are not experienced in assessing each other
 Students may cheat in collaboration for group assignments
 Fair assessment may not be determined because extrovert students are mostly good in the actual
2. Self-assessment is a process where students are taught to assess their performance against pre-determined standard
criteria and it involves the students in goal setting and more informal, dynamic self-regulation and self-reflection.
Do you do reflections? For example, after saying or doing something, you ask yourself, “Did I say the right
thing?” or “Did I do the right thing?”
Some of you keep diaries or journals; you record your own thoughts and feelings, and sometimes even your
regrets. Why? It is because you do evaluation, a self-assessment. When you do a project or a requirement, especially
when it is a performance, you assess first your work. You examine it if it meets what the criteria or rubrics require. This
could be the hardest because sometimes it is difficult to see our own flaws, but with the given required rationalized
criteria, you can objectively judge your own work. Supposing you are a contestant in a certain blind singing audition and
while practicing you keep in mind the criteria as your guide. How would you assess your performance? Will you be
honest enough to admit your weaknesses and strengths?
Here are the advantages and disadvantages of Self-assessment according to Chan, 2010:
Advantages of Self-Assessment
 Encourages students to critically reflect their own learning progress and performance
 Encourages students to be more responsible for their own learning
 Helps students become autonomous learners
 Helps students be more aware of their weakness and strength
 Helps students develop their judgmental skills
 There is no peer pressure when students evaluate themselves
Disadvantages of Self-Assessment
• Self-assessment can be subjective because students may not be sincere and may even over-evaluate their
own performance
• Time consuming for students
• Students may not be familiar with the assessment criteria
Our goal is to combat the disadvantages. You will try your best to be objective and be familiar with the criteria.
The good thing is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. You will receive more benefits in doing this.

MODULE 5 (LESSON 6)
ANSWER SHEET IN 21 CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND
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THE WORLD
NAME: __________________________________________ SECTION:________________
GENERAL DIRECTION: Write all your answers here. Detach and submit this part to your teacher.
ACTIVITY 1: MY CHOICE MY MUSIC
DIRECTION: Choose one of your favorite music videos which show issues and struggles concerning young people
like you. Watch the video, analyze it, and then answer the following question.
 1. What is the title of the song?
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2. What is the theme of the music video?
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3. What can you say about the effects used in the video? How was the theme presented?
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4. What do you like best about the video? Why?
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ACTIVITY 2: POSTER
A. DIRECTION: Read and analyze the message of the poem. After analyzing the message of the poem express it through
POSTER. Your output will be graded based from the given rubric. (Use another sheet of bond paper)

The Rainy Day RUBRIC

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Creativity 10
Artistic composition 10
Originality 20
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
Relevance to the message 20
It rains, and the wind is never weary; Total 60
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust more dead leaves fall.
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold and dark and dreary.

It rains and the wind is never weary.
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past.
And youth’s fond hopes fall thick in the blast.
And my life is dark dreary.

Be still, sad heart and cease repining

Behind the cloud is the sun still shining
Thy fate is the common fate of all
Into each life some rain must fall
Some days must be dark and dreary.

B. SELF-ASSESSMENT and Peer Assessment

DIRECTION: Assess your own poster using the same rubrics.

SELF-ASSESSMENT PEER ASSESSMENT

RUBRICS RUBRICS
Creativity 10 Creativity 10
Artistic composition 10 Artistic composition 10
Originality 20 Originality 20
Relevance to the message 20 Relevance to the message 20
Total 60 Total 60

REFLECTION:
1. Do self-assessment and peer-assessment differ somehow?
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2. How did you rate yourself? What about your peer’s assessment? Comparing the score, were the points close? What
are your thoughts? Share something here.
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ACTIVITY 3: “SIMPLY ME”

DIRECTIONS: Search for a poem (or make one if you can) which describes or situation now, and write it on the
space provided. Answer the question that follows.

What made you choose or write this poem?

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