Please download the screenshots of the whiteboard from this morning’s lesson. Below each screenshot is a sound file which explores the main teaching and learning points from our lesson.
Your assessment on Murderball will take place on the 22nd November. You will be expected to demonstrate a clear and consistent structure to your response, insight into the text (particularly how the text has been constructed to position a specific response) and an attempt made to add sophistication to your written expression.
On Monday, we will be using formative assessment approaches (peer assessment, self assessment, target setting, applying the assessment criteria) to your responses to the sample questions. The aim here is to give you time to apply the frameworks outlined below. Please see your class teacher if anything here is unclear.
Stage One- Deconstructing the Question
Please refer to the previous blog post which explores how the deconstruct a question.
Stage Two- Planning Checklist
Stage Two- Planning Towards a Proposition
Stage Three- Writing an Effective Introduction and Body Paragraph
Please note that the sound files above make explicit reference to the assessment criteria/marking key below:
While their course has been constructed quite differently to the course your enrolled on here at Duncraig, the course concepts and skills are exactly the same. It’s worth subscribing to the Carramar blog which will give you a different perspective on the course.
Please download the attached image as a model for deconstructing a Section 2- Responding question. Note that I’ve used Question 4 from the 2017 Semester 2 Year 12 ATAR examination. All the questions from this section are contained in the previous blog post.
The deconstruction of this question also uses:
The ‘Glossary of Key Terms used in Questions’- Found on the SCSA website but also attached to the previous blog post.
Appendix Tw0- Contained in the Year 12 ATAR English syllabus which is also attached to the previous blog post.
The question assumes an understanding of these SCSA-related key terms.
Things to note:
The SCSA-related information is written in red
The chosen text is written in blue
The text-specific information is written in green
Also note:
The information in the top right-hand corner which refers to defining what is meant by ‘controversial’.
The text-specific information which would need to be expanded on: you would need to refer to how the text was constructed (through specific generic conventions, visual conventions etc.) in your response.
This is an effective model for deconstructing a question. The next stage is to use this question deconstruction as a basis for producing a detailed plan.
Below is a copy of the Section 2- Responding section from the 2017 Year 12 ATAR Semester 2 examination. It is in this section that you will write about Murderball.
This section is worth 40% of the total marks for your Year 12 ATAR examination and requires you to write a long-form essay response to a text studied in class.
In class, we will explore these questions together, deconstruct them and explore ways in which Murderball could be written about in a clear and effective manner.
We will need to reference the documents below in deconstructing our questions:
While you are expected to conduct your own independent research into the texts we will cover this year, I’ve included some resources below which you should use to inform your own reading.
Please make sure you download these resources and annotate them accordingly.
