Social Studies: Recent Assessments

Over the past few weeks 10M has been working on two assigned assessments. The first one we were meant to have completed by the end of term two, however, the due date was moved over to the end of week one of term three. The second assessment was due at the end of the second week of term three. The first assessment was differentiating fact from fiction after having read an article of our own choosing. After reading through the information that was on our chosen article we would have to decide whether the article is fact or fiction, based on certain questions that were shown on the instructions for the assessment itself. We analysed the article by asking ourselves questions regarding whether the article was factual or fictional. My understanding as to why this assessment was assigned to us was to give us an idea of how to tell what is true or not; how to tell if what people post around the internet can be trusted or not. I think that this is a useful skill that could be used on any piece of writing. I chose an article about gender equality. 

The second assessment was to vaguely plan our future. We were assigned to plan the sort of lifestyle we would want to have, we have to select a job/career that we would like to have later on in life. Based on our income from that chosen job we would have to calculate our monthly/weekly expenses for food, clothes, eating out, holidays, etc. We initially had to create a potential life we could live in the future. What I think this assessment was formulated for, was to give us youngsters an idea of what life is like as someone who works and lives away from their parents, someone who is responsible for potentially looking after their own family. This assessment has helped gain a better understanding of how young adults, adults, and elders make things work out for themselves and their family, in relation of money and their well being.