This page contains all the essential and useful information you may need to be fully prepared for Saturday’s assessment.
Your best preparation is to take the following action:
- Read your previous assessment thoroughly and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses (Use the grade descriptors on this page to assist you)
- Read the new question (embedded in this post) and write your own one-sentence answer
- Read other students’ answers and discuss their point of view with them
- Read the Of Mice and Men section of this class resource site.
- Go back to the original text (copies are available from me), re-read key sections and identify quotations
- Watch the Film of the novel
- Draft a practice answer on your blog
- Develop your own plan to answer the new question
- Attend the Friday Tutorial (4:30 to 6pm) to get direct input and advice on your prep work
Official Re-sit question:
Grade Descriptors:
Read and understand texts, selecting material appropriate to purpose. |
Develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives. |
Explain and evaluate how writers use linguistic, grammatical, structural and presentational features to achieve effects and engage and influence the reader. |
| BAND 5: sophisticated interpretation of texts | BAND 5: sophisticated engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes; sophisticated interpretations using imaginatively selected supporting textual detail | BAND 5: sophisticated analysis of aspects of language and structure. |
| BAND 4: confident and developed interpretations of texts | BAND 4: engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes and provide perceptive interpretations using precisely selected supporting textual detail | BAND 4: analysis of aspects of language and structure in convincing detail. |
| BAND 3: clear evidence of understanding significant meanings of the text | BAND 3: ability to explain writers’ ideas clearly offering relevant and appropriate supporting textual detail | BAND 3: ability to display understanding of features of language and structure supported by relevant and appropriate quotation |
| BAND 2: some awareness of more obvious meanings in the text | BAND 2: some awareness of writers’ ideas supported by relevant textual detail | BAND 2: some awareness of obvious features of language and structure supported by some relevant textual detail |
| BAND 1: limited understanding of the texts | BAND 1: limited engagement with the writers’ ideas | BAND 1: reference to a limited range of textual detail. |
Class Notes:
