STAGE 6
ENGLISH
2015
Assessment Task
YEAR
COURSE
UNIT TITLE
Year 11
Preliminary English Advanced
Elective 1 - Political Voices
DATE GIVEN
Term 2 Week
2, Monday
27th April
2015
WEIGHTING
20%
TYPE OF TASK
OUTCOMES TO BE
ASSESSED
DATE DUE
TOTAL MARK
Week 4 as per Year
11 Mid-Course
Examination
Schedule
20 as per criteria
Essay response in examination
1. A student describes and explains the relationships
between composer, responder, text and context in particular
texts.
2. A student describes and explains relationships among
texts.
4. A student describes and explains the ways in which
language forms and features, and structures of particular
texts shape meaning and influence responses.
5. A student demonstrates an understanding of the ways
various textual forms, technologies and their media of
production affect meaning.
6. A student engages with a wide range of texts to develop a
considered and informed personal response.
10. A student analyses and synthesises information and
ideas from a range of texts for a variety of purposes,
audiences and contexts.
Students will be required to write an Essay response to a
question on the Elective: Political Voices.
DESCRIPTION
OF THE TASK
In the essay response students must refer to their
prescribed text and one related text.
The prescribed text is any TWO of the following poems:
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Bruce Dawe
Bruce Dawe
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“Homecoming”
“Enter without so much as knocking”
The related text is one of the following artworks supplied
with this notification, including:
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Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Jack Bram
Sylvia Plath
‘Guernica’
‘The Face of War’
"We Have a Voice"
Collage, 1960
You may bring in TEN QUOTES IN TOTAL from the poems
into the examination, which must be signed by your English
teacher as per instruction below.
The artwork will be provided on the day of the exam.
SPECIAL
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE TASK
METHOD OF
SUBMISSION
Complete a practice essay before the task as set by your
teacher.
Mid-Course Examination Block
TEACHERS
HEAD OF
DEPARTMENT
Mr Barker
Mr Damalas
Ms Colemen
Late submissions (without a valid excuse) will receive a reduced mark if student is in Year 7 or 8, otherwise a mark of zero will
apply. Work that is plagiarised will also receive a mark of zero. Sources that have been used in your Assessment need to be
acknowledged in a Bibliography and / or the Assessment (see College Diary for instructions). Computer / printer malfunctions
are not considered a valid excuse for submitting an Assessment late.
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Guidelines
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Ensure that you have an understanding of the political voice in TWO poems and
ONE artwork.
Students should revise concepts pertaining to representations of the political
voice, how the responder is positioned, context and how meaning is shaped
through language in two poems AND the artwork.
Students should revise class work on TWO poems.
Students are permitted to discuss the artwork with their teacher.
A practice essay question has been provided with this notification for each
student to complete. Students will receive feedback on the artwork in the
context of this practice essay.
Students will be permitted to take up to 10 quotations from the poems into the
examination.
All quotations must be typed in Times New Roman Size 12 and be no longer than
one sentence in length. No sub-headings, character headings or classification of
any kind is permitted. Quotations that do not adhere to these guidelines will not
be permitted into the examination.
A hard copy of the quotations must be signed off by your teacher no later than
Friday 8th May Period 4. No quotations will be signed after this date and
therefore unsigned quotations will not be permitted into the exam room. If you
are absent email them to your teacher. No other email will be accepted as it is
the student’s responsibility to provide a hardcopy of their quotations to their
teacher to sign.
If quotations are forgotten on the day, you will NOT be permitted to share or
borrow the quotations of others. Students are responsible for keeping their
quotations. Teachers will not look after them.
Students will be provided with the artwork on the day of the exam. Notes on the
artwork CANNOT be taken into the exam.
5 minutes will be allocated for reading. No writing during this reading time.
Students will have 45 minutes to write the essay in the exam block.
Students must clearly indicate their candidate number and not identify their
teacher.
Students must have a balanced treatment of the texts in their essay.
Assessment Marking Criteria:
Students will be assessed on their ability to:
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Discuss an essay question and reflect a comprehensive understanding of the
political voice in the prescribed text and related text.
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Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the political voice is
represented through form, features and language and how they are positioned
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Use appropriate form and language for the purpose of communication. This
includes: essay structure, spelling, syntax, grammar, sentence structure,
punctuation and paragraphing.
Practise essay question:
A political voice can be approached in distinctive and complex methods.
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Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text.
Elective 1: Political Voices Criteria
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Marks
Responds perceptively to the question, providing a sophisticated
understanding of the political voice in the prescribed text and related
text
17–20
Explores skilfully an understanding of how meaning is shaped
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through form, features and language used in the texts.
Composes a skilful response using language appropriate to
audience, purpose and form
Responds effectively to the question, providing a well-developed
understanding of the political voice in the prescribed text and related
text
Explores effectively an understanding of how meaning is shaped
through form, features and language used in the texts
Composes an effective response using language appropriate to
audience, purpose and form
13–16
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Responds to the question, providing an understanding of the political
voice in the prescribed text and related text
Explores an understanding of how meaning is shaped through form,
features and language used in the texts
Composes a sound response using language appropriate to
audience, purpose and form
9–12
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5–8
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Describes some aspects of the question.
Describes some aspects of how meaning is shaped through form,
features and language used in the texts
Composes a limited response
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Attempts to describe aspects of the texts
Attempts to compose a response
1–4
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Related Texts. ONE must be used in the Exam.
Text 1: Pablo Picasso – “Guernica”
Text 2: Salvador Dali “The Face of War”
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Text 3: "We Have a Voice" Collaborative painting with Jack Bram 2011
Text 4: Sylvia Plath, collage, 1960
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