ES 300: Final Assessment & Maning Online

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Just a reminder that your final assessment for US 12428 Read Transactional text starts on Friday 28 March, period 6. This is a long assessment as you need to read three pieces of work and we will continue the assessment next week.

If you want to revise Maning, there's an online edition of Old New Zealand at The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. Chapters 1 and 2 are well worth studying.

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ES300 12428 Assessment Questions

Transactional Formative Assessment Reading Test

Unit Standard: 12428 Read transactional written text closely

Answer these questions on the Listener article "What happens when the oil runs out?"

Name:

Title of text:


Instructions:
Read the text closely and complete the following activities:

1. (a) What are central ideas or meanings conveyed in this text?

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(b) Select one quote from the text that show these ideas or meanings.

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Ideas and meanings in the text are analysed with reference to relevant sections of the text 1.1□


2. Give your opinion why these are important ideas (issues) and support your discussion with examples from the text and from real life.
Importance relates to social, historical, cultural, physical, political and personal contexts

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The significance of a main idea is explained with reference to at least one relevant section of the text 1.2□
3. Identify five examples of language features and explain their effect using the grid below.
Language features could include: metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, consonance, colloquialism, irony, symbolism, grammatical usage, punctuation, choice of words.

Name of technique
Example
What effect does this technique have in expressing a point?
Technique 1:








Technique 2:








Technique 3:








Technique 4:








Technique 5:









Five examples are identified using appropriate terminology, and each example is analysed in terms of effect
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4. Identify two techniques used to shape the text and evaluate its effect using the grid below.
Techniques could include structure and narrative technique.

Name of technique
Example
How effective is this technique in helping convey the message and appealing to a specific audience?
Technique 1:













Technique 2:














Two techniques used to shape the text are identified.
Each technique is evaluated in terms of its effect with reference to relevant sections of the text 1.4□

When the Oil runs out: formative assessment

Whitby

Dear ES300_1

I'm very pleased with the enthusiasm and interest you've shown so far. I'm enjoying this unit of work and the general positive atmosphere you've created in the classroom. Thanks.

But don't forget that we have to do the written work!

I've handed out a 'formative assessment' reading test for 'What happens when the oil stops coming?' by Denis Welsch and Matt Nippert. An online copy of this article is available at The Listener website.

Remember that the questions for this article are exactly the same questions you have when you site the final assessment: the difference is that in the final assessment you will answer questions on three unfamiliar texts. Please complete the assessment tomorrow whilst I'm away on a school trip. It must be handed in by Period 6 on Thursday.

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ES300. Language Features Exercise

Read carefully the first and last two paragraphs of Pana's Choice. Identify any language features (metaphor, simile, alliteration, etc) that you find.

Present your findings in this way:

Name of language feature. Specific quotation containing the language feature. Effect.
(Read the pages on language features in the class workbook for a specific example of how to present your work.)

The go-between. Review by Caren Wilson.

An online copy of Caren Wilson's article is available at The Listener site here. Read through the article and think about the following questions:

1. Why is the author Paul Diamond mentioned and quoted so often in the article?
2. What's the significance of Makereti's many names?
3. What is the significance of the article's title 'The go-between'?
4. What is significant about Makereti's life for Diamond?
5. Why is the phrase "hot lakes" placed in quotation marks?
6. Wilton ends the article with a long quote by Diamond. What is the main point made in this final paragraph?
7. Why do you think Wilton decides to end her article with this quote?

(Feel free to write your answers as a comment to the post).

Interested in Makereti? There's more information at Monumental Stories and at the National Library.

Pana's Choice. Discussion questions

Pana Hema-Taylor

After you've read the article 'Pana's Choice' by Mike Smith, work with a friend to answer the following questions:

1. Identify a main idea or theme in the article. What is a key idea explored by Smith? Identify a key passage in the article that states this idea.
2. What is the social significance of the idea for New Zealand? (Why is Pana's story important? What does the story say about New Zealand society?)
3. Identify five examples of language features in the article. These features could include figures of speech, sound devices, unusual vocabulary or jargon, slang, irony, symbolism, grammar and punctuation.
4. How does Mike Smith begin and end his article? Describe who he 'sets the scene' for Pana's story and how he ends his article.

Write your answers and hand them in or email them to me by Friday 15th February. You may work in groups but must each submit individual answers by Friday. Go for it!

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