Year 9 Assessment Task 1. Journal responses to the novel Burning Eddy. Throughout your study of the class text, you will be assessed on your responses to the thematic, literary and stylistic devices within the text. Your teacher will assess your written responses to a series of chapter review questions and text analysis questions. Your handwritten responses will be collected throughout the term to form an ongoing response to the text. In your responses you will be expected to be in control of vocabulary, spelling, written expression and grammatical terms. Criteria Approaching the standard At the standard Above the standard Responding to Literature Recognise and explain differing Explore and reflect on personal Evaluate, the social, moral and ethical viewpoints about the world, cultures, understanding of the world and positions represented in texts. (Expressing preferences and individual people and concerns significant human experience gained evaluating texts) represented in a text. from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts. Examining literature Interpret and analyse language Analyse text structures and language Analyse and evaluate text structures choices, including sentence patterns, features of literary texts and make and language features of literary texts (Language devices in literary dialogue, imagery and language relevant comparisons with other and make relevant thematic and features. texts. intertextual connections with other texts. Creating texts Experiment with text structures and Review and edit own text to improve Review, edit and refine own text for language features to refine and clarify clarity and control over content, control of content, organisation, (editing) ideas to improve the effectiveness of organisation, paragraphing, sentence sentence structure, vocabulary to own text. structure and vocabulary. achieve particular purposes and effects. Interpreting, analysing, evaluating Apply increasing knowledge of Apply an expanding vocabulary to Choose a reading technique and vocabulary, text structures and read increasingly complex texts with reading path appropriate to the type (Reading Processes) language features to understand the fluency and comprehension. of text, to retrieve and connect ideas content of a text. within and between texts.
Year 9 Assessment Task 1. Journal responses to the novel Burning Eddy. Throughout your study of the class text, you will be assessed on your responses to the thematic, literary and stylistic devices within the text. Your teacher will assess your written responses to a series of chapter review questions and text analysis questions. Your handwritten responses will be collected throughout the term to form an ongoing response to the text. In your responses you will be expected to be in control of vocabulary, spelling, written expression and grammatical terms. Criteria Approaching the standard At the standard Above the standard Responding to Literature (Expressing preferences and evaluating texts) Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures, individual people and concerns represented in a text. Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts. Evaluate, the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts. Examining literature (Language devices in literary Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and language features. Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant comparisons with other texts. Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts. Creating texts (editing) Experiment with text structures and language features to refine and clarify ideas to improve the effectiveness of own text. Review and edit own text to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure and vocabulary. Review, edit and refine own text for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary to achieve particular purposes and effects. Interpreting, analysing, evaluating (Reading Processes) Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of a text. Apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension. Choose a reading technique and reading path appropriate to the type of text, to retrieve and connect ideas within and between texts.
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