8823 Report theme - change

1. 8823 Reporttheme - change Investigate a theme across an inclusive range of selected texts 4 Credits

2. Reading Log • Firstly you need to go to Page 12 in your course booklet and fill out the reading log. • You need to complete the reading log for each text you have studied. • You also need to read through the assessment checklist carefully to make sure you have completed all of the requirements for the standard • Once you have completed the log and are sure that you have met the requirements bring your log for me to sign so that I can verify you have read the texts.

3. Example of Reading Log:Theme: Change

4. Requirements: • Critical reputation: Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Evidence: Literary Award Text: Crash Evidence: Won three Oscars • I have watched two visual texts: Play: Romeo and Juliet Feature film: Crash • I have read two written texts: Novel: To Kill a Mockingbird Poems: Friend / The Old Place • I have listened to an oral text: “I Have a Dream” By Martin Luther King (YouTube) • I have texts from at least two different cultures: New Zealand and USA • I have included male and female authors/directors: Harper Lee (female) and the rest are male authors / directors.

5. The Report: • You will present your theme study as a written report. • You will use your 6 responses that you have written on each of the studied texts throughout the year to help complete the research report planning sheet which will aid you in writing the report as it needs to follow the structure below: • Introduction • First similarity between texts • Second similarity between texts • First difference between texts • Second difference between texts • Conclusion

6. Research Report Planning Sheet: • Before you start writing the report you need to complete the research report planning sheet (Page 13 in your course booklet). • Use your 6 responses to help you fill in this sheet. You don’t need to discuss all six texts but you must find clear similarities and differences between some of the texts. • Go through each of your responses and identity a similarity between two texts. Write this similarity on the planning sheet with a quote and details to support the similarity. For the second similarity try to use different texts than you did for the first similarity and again write the similarity on the planning sheet with a quote and details to support.

7. Research Report Planning Sheet Continued: • You then need to go through your responses again and identity a difference between two of the texts. Write this difference on your planning sheet with a quote and details from each text to support the difference. For the second difference try to use different texts than you did for the first difference and again write the difference on the planning sheet with a quote and details to support.

8. Writing the Report: • Once you have completed the research report planning sheet we will look at some exemplars to give you an idea of what is required in your report. We will look at N and A reports and discuss the comments and what you need to show / include in order to achieve this Unit Standard. • In your report your are going to present the outcomes of the your investigation on the theme of ‘change’ in selected texts. You must discuss two similarities and two differences with detailed references to at least TWO texts in order to achieve. • You will have 3 lessons in class to complete this report and can use your research report planning sheet to help you.

9. Structure of Report: • Use a clear Statement, Example, Explanation format for each of your four sections. • Introduction: your introduction needs to outline your chosen theme and a sentence about why you chose it. Also you could list the texts that you included in your investigation. • Then you need to include four sections: first similarity between texts, second similarity between texts, first difference between texts and second difference between texts. • In the four sections above you need to discuss two similarities and two differences in how the theme is shown with supporting details or quote from each text mentioned. • You do not need to refer to all six texts, you may refer to the same text in more than one section. If you do use the same text more than once, the supporting details, as well as the differences or similarities mentioned, must be different. • Conclusion: what generalisations can you make about this theme? Sum up what you have learned and why this theme was worth studying.

10. You will be assessed on: • The theme linking all texts is explained with reference to details in each text. • The responses record date of entry, name of a writer / presenter / director / creator and the title of each text or a description of the text for each text read, and provides a brief personal response with specific reference to details within each text. • How well you present the outcomes of the theme investigation. • How convincingly you show and discuss the similarities and differences on the studied texts. • Whether you discuss at least two studied texts within your report. • Inclusion of detailed references from mentioned texts.