Assessment

Assignments

  • Writing - Personal, Analytical and Creative Responses
  • Research - Biographical study of the authors and directors
  • Analysis - Expression and Imagery
  • Vocabulary - Meanings, Spelling, Parts of speech
  • Discussion - Exchange of views and oral presentations
  • Reading: Reading/Listening to texts
  • Performing: Creating dramatic presentation
  • Songs: Listening and Singing

Summative Tasks

Written: Major Essays On each unit

Dramatic Presentations:
Performances of selected scenes from the texts

Both Sides Now: Dramatic presentation using thematic songs

Assessment Criteria
    Written Work:
  • Comprehension
  • Editing
  • Accuracy
  • Fluency
  • Thoughts and Ideas
  • Composition
  • Presentation
  
    Oral and Dramatic Expression:
  • Clarity
  • Accuracy
  • Fluency
  • Thoughts and Ideas
  • Interpretation
  • Presence
  • Cooperation

Extended Reading and Viewing
The Pearl - Film, dir: Emilio Fernández
The Old Man and the Sea - Film, dir: John Sturges
Romeo and Juliet - Film, dir: Franco Zeffirelli
Romeo and Juliet - Film, dir: Baz Lurhmann
Rebel Without a Cause - Film, dir: Nicholas Ray
Silas Marner - George Eliot + Film BBC, dir: Giles Foster
Rabbit Proof Fence - Herman Melville + Film, dir: John Huston
Moby Dick - Herman Melville + Film, dir: John Huston
Rabbit Proof Fence - Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002
Au Revoir Les Enfants - Louis Malle, France, 1987
Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite - T Basaran, Turkey, 1989
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Picnic and Hanging Rock - Peter Weir
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe + Film, dir: Luis Bunuel
Walkabout - Vance Marshall + Film, dir: Nicholas Roeg
Local Hero - Film, dir: Bill Forsyth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Film, dir: Richard Thorpe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Film, dir: Norman Taurog
Educational Documentaries
- In Search of Shakespeare
- About Ernest Hemingway
- About John Steinbeck