This post is a little different as it doesn't show off what our Year group has been doing, it is actually just some info for parents and students about the English Reading Logs. Reading Logs are done by all Year 10 students and are an NCEA standard, meaning our students get a head start on NCEA Level 1. The first check point has passed, and almost everyone submitted their first two logs. Those who haven't submitted or submitted work that was not authentic still have a chance to complete the 6 Reading Logs.
My advice is get a few off them out of the way over the coming holidays, essentially read a book, watch a film, analyse a song, and record your thoughts following the template shared by your teachers.
Below is the info as passed on by the English Department:
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Achievement Standard 90854
Form personal responses to
independently read texts, supported by evidence
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Resource title: Texts for Pleasure
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4 credits towards NCEA Level 1
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This assessment activity
requires you to form and present personal responses to at least six
independently read texts, sharing what you felt about them and providing
evidence to support your responses. Your responses may be presented in written
form.
This activity will take place
during the school year and will use some of the class time and homework time.
You will be assessed on the
perceptiveness of your responses to your chosen texts.
Task
Select six texts:
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Include at least
four written texts, two of which must be extended texts, such as novels or
biographies. All written texts must be selected and read by you.
·
Your other two texts
may be visual, oral, or written.
Your teacher will approve your
selection of texts. They will need to be complex enough for Level 1 English
and, if visual, may not be used with an inappropriate rating (i.e. you cannot
hand in a response to an R16 film if you are only 15).
So the easiest option is 2 short texts, 2 novels and 2 films.
For each text, give your
response. Say which parts or aspects made you feel this way, and try to explain
why, supporting your views with quotations and/or by referring to specific,
relevant details from the text.
- A convincing and perceptive response will express your viewpoint in a reasoned way, showing some insight in thought or reflection. This might involve:
- Discuss how and/or why the text has affected your ideas or views
- Explain why a particular feature of the structure or style of the text caught your attention and the effect that had on your understanding of the text.
- Discuss how the text made you think about connections with your own life, the world, and other texts.
- Discuss a character’s choices and how you would have dealt with the same situation and why.
Explain what purpose you
think the text was written for and why the author’s purpose was important to
consider
Due Dates:
As there are 6 responses to
complete, the due dates are as follows:
Submission #1: Responses for 2
texts due: Monday, 3rd
April
Submission #2: Responses for 2
texts due: Monday 26th June
Submission #3: Responses for 2
texts due: Monday 18th
September
Below is the marking schedule
with an example of how a personal response looks for each grade.
Assessment schedule: English
90854 Texts for Pleasure
Evidence/Judgements
for Achievement
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Evidence/Judgements
for Achievement with Merit
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Evidence/Judgements
for Achievement with Excellence
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Written and/or oral personal responses for at least
six independently selected and read texts must be submitted.
· Responses must demonstrate evidence of personal
understandings of, engagement with, and/or viewpoints on the texts.
· At least four written texts must be included, two of
which must be extended texts.
·
Supporting
evidence (either quotations or specific details) that is directly relevant to
the opinion must be provided for each text. This may also include responding to
links between:
- text and self (e.g. personal
contexts and prior knowledge)
- text and world (e.g. connections
with knowledge, experience, ideas and imagination from social, cultural,
literary, political or historical contexts).
For example: (This one has
been annotated)
Flawless by Sara Shepard
I strongly admired Emily‟s
character. I felt her character made the story more interesting and twisting. The “Emily was the
shy, skate-ranked swimmer who had a lot going on under the surface-if you
just got to know her” straight away posted across my mind as to how busy her life must be
and what‟s going on under the surface. I also think that Emily has a strong
attitude and doesn‟t like getting told what to do. I like the
character Sara gave Emily as she seems very strong and stable; she also is a swimmer which was
interesting for me to come across because I am a swimmer so I can relate to
part of her life well and when reading I hardly ever come across swimming
characters.
Ali, Aria, Hanna, Emily and
Spencer are five close friends who at the beginning, they do everything
together, „the five of them went white-water rafting and rock climbing‟.
Their bond was a true friendship, unbreakable. Sara had created a great
friendship between these five characters. I wondered if every friendship was like that, but there are those
friendships that are on and off, fighting and fighting. Then my friends and I
get along like blue and green. These characters as I said
had an unbreakable friendship until a death and receiving texts from so
called „A‟ starts to mess with their minds. “Construction workers had found ……..‟s body under a
concrete slab behind what used to be her house” They had all acted
unreliable the night of a sleepover and something went wrong and as every
situation goes, there are always consequences and this time was the worse.
While reading Flawless by Sara Shepard I thought
about all the horrible obstacles they had to face in high school. I think all
five of the characters handled it very well and much better than I would
have. I feel Emily‟s character grew softer towards the end, she became very
emotional and upset. I think I would have been in the same boat as Emily
Clear response is given.
Quotation links clearly to
personal response.
Personal response is explained.
Link between the
text and self is identified
Plot point with evidence,
which leads to reflection.
Reflection and link to personal
experience.
Quotation
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Written and/or oral convincing personal responses for at least six independently
selected and read texts must be submitted.
· Responses must demonstrate evidence of personal
understandings of, engagement with, and/or viewpoints on the texts which are
generally meaningful.
· At least four written texts must be included, two of
which must be extended texts.
·
Supporting
evidence (either quotations or specific details) that is directly relevant to
the opinion must be provided for each text. This may also include responding to
links between:
- text and self (e.g. personal
contexts and prior knowledge)
- text and world (e.g. connections
with knowledge, experience, ideas and imagination from social, cultural,
literary, political or historical contexts).
For example:
Marked by P.C. Cast
The book „marked‟ by P.C. Cast is a very exciting
but emotional book about a teenager who is marked and must be taken to a
vampire school and learn how to live like a vampire if she wants to survive.
The argument between Zoey and her mum was completely realistic and
relates to most people’s lives, where their mother or father has remarried
and they feel like they must consult their partner before helping or even
listening to their son or daughter even if it isn‟t their partners child in
the first place. Then the teenager tells their parent that they have a
problem and that their mother or father never listens to them anymore and
always has to tell their partner before doing anything about it, and this
makes the child really angry and so they get really upset just like Zoey did
when her mother wanted to tell her new husband what had happened,when Zoey
didn‟t want him to know anything because he wasn‟t her father.
This argument made me feel really sad and sorry for Zoey especially
when Zoey got home and said she had a problem and her mother instantly said
“what have you done now?”, this was really devastating to read because it is
saying that Zoey‟s mother didn‟t even think about whether is was Zoey‟s fault
or not and just blurted out” what did you do now” as if to say Zoey must have
done something wrong. I know if my mother or father said that to me when I
wanted to tell them I had a problem, that would make me feel really betrayed
in the fact that my own parents don‟t trust me, and instantly think I did something
wrong if I had a problem.
I really enjoyed the part of the book when Zoey was in the canteen at
the school and she asked the girl behind her if vampires really cant stand
garlic and she said “ that is a lie”, and then Zoey was hoping vampires drinking
blood was a lie to and then the girl said “no,that is completely true”. Zoey
was so sarcastic about that and said “oh great wonderful”, which made me
laugh as you could see in your mind her face and how she was so upset that it
wasn‟t a lie, and how she was so excited. I was really excited at that point
as Zoey was very disturbed by the fact that she will have to have blood
eventually and that she really isn‟t really looking forward to howshe will
have to if she wants to survive at all or even as a vampire, which really put
a smile on my face.
Reading this book made me feel a lot of different emotions in
different parts and aspects of the book. I felt really sad when Zoey‟s mum
didn‟t really want to know what her problem really was but instantly wanted
to know what Zoey had done wrong and didn‟t even think about whether it was
her fault or
not. I think I am really lucky that for one,my parents aren‟t split up
and I don‟t have another woman or man in my life trying to be my mother or
father, and that whenever I have a problem I can go to my parents and they
will help me whether I caused the problem or not. Unlike Zoey‟s mum.Overall I
really enjoyed this book and thought it had a lot of different events happen
which made me feel all sorts of emotions but it was really awesome to read.
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Written and/or oral perceptive personal responses for at least six
independently selected and read texts must be submitted.
· Responses must demonstrate evidence of personal
understandings of, engagement with, and/or viewpoints on the texts which
shows some insight in thought or reflection.
· At least four written texts must be included, two of
which must be extended texts.
·
Supporting
evidence (either quotations or specific details) that is directly relevant to
the opinion must be provided for each text. This may also include responding to
links between:
- text and self (e.g. personal
contexts and prior knowledge)
- text and world (e.g. connections
with knowledge, experience, ideas and imagination from social, cultural,
literary, political or historical contexts).
For example:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a moving novel
about 3 women putting their differences aside and coming together for a risky
project that will change the way everyone views each other in Jackson,
Mississippi forever.
I absolutely admired one of the main characters Eugenia Phelan or
better known as „Skeeter‟. Skeeter was a white girl who had no issues with
the privileged world she lived in; she never really gave it any thought. But
slowly she started to notice how hard it must be to be a black person in the
society she lived in and how badly they were treated. I was inspired by
Skeeter, for she had the guts to embark on a daring project that aimed to
show everyone that black and white people are not as different as everyone
thinks. I was amazed by how brave Skeeter was to do this, to be willing to
give up and risk everything –her friends, her boyfriend, her own safety. „You
got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League and a mama that's
gonna drive you to drink. You done burned ever bridge there is. And you ain't
never gone get another boyfriend in this town and everbody know it.‟ Skeeter
had such a good life and it all turned to custard so quickly, so I felt quite
sorry for her, but at the same time I thought that maybe she was better off
leaving everyone behind; the friends she had weren‟t true friends if they
didn‟t support her decisions. Another quality of Skeeter‟s that moved me was
that she made decisions for herself, and stood up for what she believed in,
„All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloureds, being a
girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realised I actually
had a choice in what I could believe.‟ Skeeter is everything I would want to
be when I get older; prosperous, well educated and strong-willed. My society
needs more people like her, people that aren‟t afraid to lead and to go
against the crowd in matters they believe shouldn‟t be acceptable.
I couldn‟t put this novel down, it was a great read. It made me think
about the racism in this world and how it is completely unfair. I was stirred
by a quote in this book, „We are just two people. Not that much separates us.
Not nearly as much as we thought.‟ It is completely true; we are all human
and shouldn‟t be judged by the colour of our skin.
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Final grades will be decided using professional
judgement based on a holistic examination of the evidence provided against the
criteria in the Achievement Standard.
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