English ATAR - Year 11
Units 1
Sample assessment outline
Assessment type
and task
weighting
Responding
10%
Responding
40%
Responding
15%
Responding
15%
Creating
30%
Creating
20%
Creating
10%
Examination
30%
Examination
30%
Total 100%
100%
Content
When/due date/start Assessment task
and submission date (*The term “author” is used throughout this document as shorthand for the creator of the
text.)
Relationships between language,
context and meaning; language,
Term 1
structure and features of text types. Set Week 2
Due Week 4
Task 1: (In-class short answer responses.)
1. How has your reading of a text been influenced by knowledge of the context in which
it was created?
2. Briefly explain how significant language features and textual conventions shaped your
response to a studied text.
Relationships between language,
context and meaning;
Task 2: (In-class essay.)
(Two or three unseen multimodal texts provided.)
Compare how two different studied text types successfully deal with similar ideas or
perspectives in different ways.
Task 4: (In-class essay.)
Analyse how your response to one studied text has been influenced by purpose, context
and the use of techniques appropriate to your chosen text type.
OR
Explore how text structures and language features communicate ideas and represent
people and/or events in one extended text you have studied.
Influence of purpose, context and
techniques on responses to texts;
techniques associated with
imaginative, interpretive and
persuasive texts.
Term 1
Set Week 5
Due Week 8
Term 2
Set Week 10
Due Week 13
Using appropriate form, content,
Term 1
style and tone for different purposes;
Set Week 5
combining visual/spoken/written
Due Week 9
elements.
Combining visual, spoken and written
elements where appropriate; create Term 2
Set Week 10
oral texts; relationship between
Due Week 14
purpose, context and audience.
Examination
Week
Task 3: (Class and home.)
Construct a multimodal text in a form of your choice to persuade your intended audience
about a particular issue or idea.
Task 5: (Oral presentation)
Research the context of a text and author of your own choosing (not studied in class).
In a 15 minute oral presentation, discuss the extent to which your understanding of the
text has been influenced/affected by your research and by an awareness of your own
personal context.
Task 6: Semester 1 examination: Duration 2 hrs
 Comprehension 30% (Two short answer questions from a choice of two.)
 Responding 40% (One question from a choice of five.)
 Creating 30% (One question from a choice of five.)
Sample assessment outline English: ATAR - Year 11
2014/
English ATAR - Year 11
Units 2
Sample assessment outline
Assessment type
and task
weighting
Responding
10%
Responding
40%
Responding
15%
Responding
15%
Creating
30%
Creating
15%
Creating
15%
Examination
30%
Examination
30%
Total 100%
100%
Content
When/due date/start Assessment task
and submission date
Compare texts in a variety of
contexts, media and modes;
investigate the representation of
ideas, attitudes and voices in texts.
Investigate the representation of
ideas, attitudes and voices in texts;
reflect on their own and others’ texts
by analysing the values and attitudes
expressed;
evaluating the effectiveness of texts
in representing ideas, attitudes and
voices
Analyse and evaluate how and why
responses to texts vary; critically
examine how and why texts position
readers and viewers.
Term 3
Set Week 1
Due Week 3
Term 3
Set Week 4
Due Week 7
Task 1: (In class – short answer format.)
Three unseen texts provided across a range of contexts, media and modes.
1. How is the same issue represented in different ways in two of the texts provided?
2. Explain how one of the voices in one text is used to shape audience response.
Task 2: 15% In class – essay.
Discuss how one extended text you have studied has been constructed to present a
particular perspective.
OR
Evaluate the effectiveness of one extended text you have studied in representing ideas,
attitudes and voices.
Task 3: 15% (Set Week 5 due for presentation Week 10) Creating – Oral presentation.
Task 4: (In-class essay.) Short answer response.
1. How has one text you have studied used techniques from different text types to
shape audience response? (15 marks)
2. How can responses to a text change over time and in different cultural contexts?
Briefly explain in relation to one text you have studied. (15 marks))
Use elements from a range of text
Term 4
Task 3: (Class and home.) Oral presentation.
types for different purposes,
Set Week 5
Working in pairs or a small group, present a news or current affairs programme which
audiences and contexts; investigate Due beginning Week represents the world and human experience in a particular way. (Group mark and
the representation of ideas, attitudes 9 – assessed during individual oral presentation mark.) Students assessed on syllabus content Weeks 1-8.
and voices; reflect on others’ texts. Week 9.
Use imaginative, interpretive and
Task 5: (In class.) Students draft, edit and complete in class, no notes. (Two lessons.)
persuasive elements for different
Term 4
Position your audience to respond in a particular way to the image provided in a form of
purposes, contexts and audiences;
Set Week 14
your choice.
develop and sustain voice, tone and Due Week 14
style.
Task 6: Semester 1 examination: Duration 2 hrs
 Comprehension 30% (Two short answer questions from a choice of two.)
Examination
Week
 Responding 40% (One question from a choice of five.)
 Creating 30% (One question from a choice of five.)
Term 4
Set Week 11
Due Week 13
Sample assessment outline English: ATAR - Year 11
2014/