The document provides instructions for a 60 minute timed assessment on Remembrance Day. Students are asked to write a short report on one of three topics related to Remembrance Day: Remembrance Day observances, the view of military service today, or the future of Remembrance Day. Students must use the provided exemplar and rubric to guide their writing and are asked to first plan their report using a thinking quad exercise to brainstorm what they know, think, learned, and discovered about their chosen topic.

1. Remembrance Day Timed Assessment:
60 minutes
Instructions:
1. Students are to write a short report
2. Students are to use the Level 4 College Writing Exemplar and Short Report Rubric to aid in
their completion of this task.
3. Subject matter: Remembrance Day
Write a short report on anyone of these “topical” considerations regarding Remembrance Day
i) Remembrance Day observances
ii) The view of military service today
iii) The future of Remembrance Day
4. This task requires that you draw on any and all prior knowledge and understanding you
have with respect to this subject and any of its subtopics.
5. Plan first with an “ideas web or thinking quad” (required submission as rough work) and
then write the report after reflecting on the exemplar and rubric provided.

2. Thinking Quad
What I know What I think
What I learned What I discovered