Year 9 English

English Department

Year 9 English

Term Four, Semester Two 2022

Students Name: 18034040640

Teacher: 18859512700

Assessment Details

Unit: Across the Barricades

Enduring Understanding: Individuals often experience adversity, struggle, prejudice, sacrifice and hope.

Task 4 Analytical Essay

Inquiry Question: How are ideas and values represented in imaginative texts?

Due Date: 1064231-2791323285454318072295158572743111102132Completed Draft: 31 October 2022

1625600825546663189172Final: 14 November 2022

Assessment Conditions

Minimum three weeks notice of task

4 lessons in class preparation

263715520320Teacher feedback on essay planner

Students to submit draft to Studiosity

500-700 words

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1687195-53340338391563505333365-161925Organising Principle

2393315117475In this unit, we have been exploring social and cultural issues in Across the Barricades. You will be exploring and analysing how concepts, individuals and social groups are represented in the text. You will analyse how fictional texts integrate these issues into their thematic content, characters, dramatic action and setting. It is also important to look at how texts explore the lives of teenagers, and the issues that might surround them in a setting that requires them to struggle against adversity and prejudice.

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Genre

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278033-5945182635250-142240Analytical Essay

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Task

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You are to write an essay in which you respond to the following:

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Analyse how the reader is positioned to view a concept from the play (prejudice, loyalty or violence).

36988751136655377815190500Choose one of these concepts to address in your answer. You should consider characters, events and language choices in your response.

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1000760-147320You may refer to no more than two main characters or events to justify your opinion.

2267585-692155816600-3676655366385-348615In your essay you should:

Establish a thesis / central idea

Develop this thesis /central idea using at least two main points

Use supporting evidence from the novel, including quotations

578567317889Provide a conclusion

Social Purpose

To demonstrate an understanding of the text studied this term;

To analyse, inform, explain and persuade;

To present information in a logical manner, and;

To interpret main events from the novel.

Subject Matter

To explore and demonstrate an understanding of the play, Across the Barricades

Relationship

Student to teacher/formal

Common Curriculum Elements

Using correct spelling, punctuation and grammar

Using vocabulary appropriate to a context

Structuring/organising extended written text

Explaining to others

Interrelating ideas/themes/issues

Analysing

Resources Used Stages of Text Production

Material Original Ideas Rough Draft Final

Internet

School Library

Outside Libraries

Computer

Magazines

Films

Other Human Teacher

Tutor

Peers

Member of family

Librarian

ESL Teacher

Other Declaration of Authorship

I _______________________________, declare that all unacknowledged work is my own. To authenticate this I have ensured plans, rough drafts and appropriate documentation of the writing process have been attached.

Student Signature: Date: -19050-1524000Year 9 English

Getting There Analytical Essay

Dimension A B C D E

Receptive Mode

(Listening, Reading, Viewing) On balance, the student work has the following characteristics:

Understanding and Skills

977265-69215-1270-69215Discerning use of genre patterns and conventions to achieve specific purpose

Discerning analysis of text

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126737197433Discerning selection of evidence from text to show how events, situations and people can be represented

28511552197006858028765788033 Effective use of genre patterns and conventions to achieve specific purpose

Effective analysis of text

Effective selection of evidence from text to show how events, situations and people can be represented

Use of genre patterns and conventions to achieve specific purpose

Analysis of texts

Selection of evidence from text to show how events, situations and people can be represented

Use of aspects of genre patterns and conventions to achieve some purpose

Identification of ideas that underpin text

Selection of some evidence from text to support an opinion

Use of aspects genre patterns and conventions

Identification of some ideas in text

Selection of some subject matter to state an opinion

Dimension A B C D E

Productive Mode

(Listening, Reading, Viewing) On balance, the student work has the following characteristics:

19685-2658745Understanding and Skills Discerning selection of language features for particular purposes and effects

Discerning demonstration of understanding of grammar

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Discerning selection of vocabulary for effect

Clear and consistent use of accurate spelling and punctuation Effective selection of language features for particular purposes and effects

Effective demonstration of understanding of grammar

Effective selection of vocabulary for effect

Consistent use of accurate spelling and punctuation Selection of language features for particular purposes and effects

Demonstration of understanding of grammar

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Use of accurate spelling and punctuation Selection of language features for purposes and effects

Partial demonstration of understanding of grammar

Selection of vocabulary that varies in suitability

Use of spelling and punctuation that varies in suitability Selection of language features

Fragmented demonstration of understanding of grammar

Selection of vocabulary that impedes meaning

Use of spelling and punctuation that impedes meaning

Comment:

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Quoting, Micro quoting and Literary Devices

Scene 3 Violence: Quoting(Evidence) then Explain and Literary Devices

Kevin refers to the violence he sees every day when he says, You darent touch themBurnt out cars, busesbarbed wire. Although Kevin collects scrap metal, it is not the usual type of metal he collects but rather the barricades that are erected around Belfast. The playwright uses ellipses to emphasise the pauses between ideas making them more powerful to the audience.

Scene 3 Violence Micro quoting/Explain and Literary Devices (same info shorter length)

"Burnt out cars, busesbarbed wire" is the barricades Kevin and Sadie face every day in Belfast. The playwrights use of ellipses emphasises to the audience how powerful the violence is during the Troubles.

Scene 3 Prejudice Quoting (Evidence) then Explain and Literary Devices

Sadie says to Kevin, We are only a few streets away from each other and Kevin replies, but it might as well be a thousand miles. Sadie is telling the audience about the physical divide created by being loyal to ones religion. In this case, the Catholics are kept away from the Protestants, even though they live close to each other and were friends in the past. The use of imagery here allows the reader to feel the distance between the two characters as more than a physical divide.

Scene 3 Prejudice Micro quoting/Explain and Literary Devices (same info, shorter section)

Sadie agonises over being only a few streets away from Kevin all these years, as it might as well be a thousand miles because of their different religions. The imagery created by the separation, highlights the adversity the teenagers experienced in the 1970s.

Scene 3 Loyalty Quoting(Evidence) then Explain and Literary Devices

Down with the Prods!, Down with the Micks! and phrases like sneaking me into the Proddies areato paint over King Billy is an example of how loyalties between religions were created during the Troubles, in Belfast. The use of exclamation marks by the playwright emphasises to the reader how passionate Northern Irelanders were about their respective relgions.

Scene 3 Loyalty Micro Quoting/Explain and Literary Devices(same + more evidence, same length)

Loyalties between Prods and Micks caused friction for Northern Irelanders, which were further enflamed by murals of King Billy that were painted over by Catholics in the middle of the night. Proddies retaliated by writing Down the Pope, ultimately leading to a pitched battle on Bonfire Night. The aside of music, sounds of battle, children shouting, bin lids being bashed together and stone-throwing, allows the audience to feel the tensions created by fierce loyalty to ones religion.