Year+10+English+Assessments

Students need to compose and present a speech from the perspective of a character in their novel showing how the character has grown/ shown courage during the course of events depicted.
 * Term 1 - Courage and Growth**

A 'cheat sheet' of terminology and essay structure to hand out to students when preparing for the assessment task. The actual assessment task - handed out to students early so they know what to expect. The text is sight unseen on the day. Biographical information about the real Christopher Gardener's life. The sheet on which the students compose their responses.
 * Term 2 - Real Lives**

Above: Film poster for analysis.

The feedback to students who completed the task in 2011. This may be useful to look through either for your own information, or to show your students, so they avoid making the same errors.

This task has two components - the visual representation and the justification. The justification should be written in essay format, so you may like to go over this with your students.
 * Term 3 - Poetry**

Below are some sample essays from the 10B class last year. If you take the name off (and maybe edit them a bit) you could show them to your class as a model text.

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 * Term 4 - Shakespeare**