I might still just be totally misreading things but I don't see how the assignment above is a valid, let alone a normal application of the Kodály Method?
Seems like the teacher really misunderstood what it was/meant for. I could totally be wrong here.
Translating sentences on paper (and again, how? why? by what metrics?) seems like the exact opposite of what the Kodály Method utilizes and its underpinning principles?
I understand the confusion and it's why I wasn't quite sure if I'd correctly identified what was happening. I took sentence and word as the music theory terms sentence[1] and motive[2]. Then translating the beats of an example into Kodály syllables seemed like a reasonable exercise that could be objectively evaluated.
[1] https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SentenceStructure.h...
[2] https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MotiveSection.html