2024 Year 10 Assessment One Notification

Bellfield College Assessment Task
Bellfield College
English Assessment Notification
English Faculty – Stage 5 - 2024
Submission format: Canvas Turn It In
Name of Task: Assessment Task One
Due Date: Essay Plan and two drafted paragraphs

Week 8
Subject: English
Due Date: Final Copy, Term 2, Week 2
Sunday, 8:59pm
Year: 10 Weight: 20%
Teachers: Ms S. Rose, Ms B. Merhi, Ms S. Karim HOD: Ms S. Rose
Emails:
[email protected]
Outcomes to be assessed:
EN5-1A - Responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for
understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure
EN5-2A - effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies
and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and
technologies.
EN5-3B- selects and uses language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a
range of purposes, audiences and contexts, describing and explaining their effects on
meaning
EN5-5C- thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and
increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of
contexts
EN5-7D- Understands and evaluates the diverse ways texts can represent personal and
public worlds
EN5-8D- questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects
on meaning
Rules:
Assessment tasks that are completed in class
Tests completed in class, such as tests and examinations, practicals, performances, speeches,
presentations must be completed on the designated day. Failure to do so requires adequate evidence
(Medical Certificate or a letter from a parent attached to an ‘Illness and Misadventure’ form) to be
presented to the Head of Department in the next lesson of that subject.
Assessment tasks that are completed outside the classroom
Tasks completed outside the classroom are to be submitted by the date and time specified on the
assessment task notification. All tasks may be submitted early.
Late submission of tasks
Any task submitted after the designated day and time will be deemed late, unless:
a. the student has been granted an extension (for which students should have applied via the
relevant Head of Department using the ‘Application for Extension’ form at least two days
prior to the due date);
b. is absent on the day due to illness or another acceptable reason, as indicated in a Medical
Certificate or a letter from a parent attached to an ‘Illness and Misadventure’ form given to
the Head of Department in the next lesson of that subject.
Failure to submit a task on time will result in a mark deduction as follows:
One day late: 10% of total marks

Two days late: 20% of total marks
Three days late: 30% of total marks
Four days late: 40% of total marks
Five days late: 50% of total marks
Six or more days late: 100% of total marks
Task:
Course:
During Term One, students have been studying Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Textual Concepts: Context, Character, Perspective (and conflicting values), Literary Value
Task:
In this task, students will be developing and answering an extended essay response.
Students will analyse the nature, influence and responses of the characters in the text as
they are formed by, and impact on, the town of Maycomb.
Essay Question:
We can “monster” other people by treating them with prejudice, and/or talking about them in
negative and unsubstantiated ways. We can turn other people into “monsters” of our imagination.
a. Consider the ramifications of this statement for three characters in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by
Harper Lee. Using evidence from the text, explain how their lives are affected. Focus on THREE
characters.
b. What, in your evaluation, is the real monster in Maycomb County? It may not be a person.
Marking Criteria:
Your assessment task, you will be assessed on:

● The structure and clarity of your response.
● Your ability to effectively develop and sustain an argument in response to an essay question.
● The choice and application of textual references from your prescribed text (To Kill a
Mockingbird).
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Annotate, take notes in your English workbook, and/or highlight your copy of the novel. Your
NOTES form the filtered “data” you have taken from the novel. The more you have, the stronger your
essay is.
FOLLOW THIS BASIC STRUCTURE FOR YOUR RESPONSE:
● You will need to create an opening thesis statement (subject + opinion) in response to the
question.
● Using your thesis statement, create an outline of your essay BEFORE you begin writing it.
This outline, and two drafted paragraphs are due this term. See page one of this Notification.
● Build an introductory paragraph around your thesis statement. Provide some background
information on the novel and be sure to mention the title of the novel, correctly punctuated,
and the author’s full name. This is mandatory for the opening paragraph of a literary essay.
● Your body paragraphs should support your thesis, and include concrete details (textual
quotes or references to plot events). Use a PEEL (or similar) structure to make each point.
Body paragraphs include a number of PEEL structures.
● Your concluding paragraph should relate back to your thesis statement. Do not restate points
you have already made. Try to go BEYOND summary to insight – what makes your essay and
this novel so important? One of our Textual Concepts is Literary Value.
REMEMBER…
● Proofread and edit your work carefully for mechanical, structural and logical errors.

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Bellfield College Assessment Task

Due Date: Essay Plan and two drafted paragraphs

Year: 10 Weight: 20%

Teachers: Ms S. Rose, Ms B. Merhi, Ms S. Karim HOD: Ms S. Rose

Assessment tasks that are completed in class

Assessment tasks that are completed outside the classroom

Late submission of tasks

Failure to submit a task on time will result in a mark deduction as follows:

One day late: 10% of total marks

Your assessment task, you will be assessed on:

FOLLOW THIS BASIC STRUCTURE FOR YOUR RESPONSE:

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