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The English Scholarship Exam September 2007

The English Scholarship Exam September 2007. English Facilitators Teacher Professional Development. Purpose of this session. What to expect - Tips and advice - What responses might look like. What is the Scholarship exam?. A monetary award No credits Not a qualification

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The English Scholarship Exam September 2007

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  1. The English Scholarship Exam September 2007 English Facilitators Teacher Professional Development

  2. Purpose of this session What to expect- Tips and advice- What responses might look like

  3. What is the Scholarship exam? • A monetary award • No credits • Not a qualification • Challenging standards • Most able students in each subject • Students must be able to: • Demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation • Integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations.

  4. $$$$ The awards: Premier Scholars - at least three Scholarships at Outstanding level: $10,000 each year for three years Outstanding Scholar Award - a minimum of 3 Scholarships (at least 2 at 'Outstanding' level or more than 3 Scholarships with at least 1 at Outstanding level) - $5,000 each year for three years Top Subject Scholar (multiple awards)- the top performer in each subject : $2,000 each year for three years Scholarship Award - three or more Scholarships subjects - $2,000 each year for three years Single Subject Awards - 1 or 2 Scholarships - A 'one-off' award of $500 per subject

  5. How the paper is marked: • Constant checks within the marking team • 3 Performance Descriptors • Each essay is out of 8 points • Your record of Scholarship results will show: • - The PD which best fitted your paper • - The ‘cut off’

  6. Outstanding Performance - Performance Descriptor 1 • The student will: • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of texts and methods used in crafting them. • Respond critically with mature ideas and independent reflection. • Demonstrate an exceptional level of sustained critical response showing consistent ability to synthesise knowledge, understanding and argument.

  7. Scholarship - Performance Descriptor 2 • The student will: • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of texts and methods used in crafting them. • Respond critically with mature ideas and independent reflection. • Sustain coherent, substantiated and engaging argument.

  8. Performance Descriptor 3 • The student will: • Demonstrate knowledge of texts and methods used in crafting them. • Respond critically with mature ideas and independent reflection. • Demonstrate coherent and substantiated argument.

  9. Demanding text and questions - It is not necessarily the complexity of the text but how students respond that makes it demanding. Respond critically … initiate an alternative reading or application of theory; take a fresh approach to accepted interpretations; challenge the reader’s understandings; apply or deconstruct theoretical models. Knowledge of methods used in crafting … such as structure, style, layout, delivery techniques, figurative language, editing, method of narration, rhetorical devices, sound effects, dramatic techniques, characterisation, costume and scripting.

  10. Section A Close Reading of Unfamiliar Texts – a technical comparison of two written texts, one poetry, one prose, with an emphasis on content and crafting.

  11. Section A - Tips for success: • Use the guidelines in the question • Include wider discussion of the themes/ideas too. • Avoid listing technique and effect ; look holistically at each piece • Read the introductory paragraph • Keep answer balanced across both texts

  12. Section B • Response to Literature and Language • A response to literature / language which you have studied. • If you choose short texts, it must involve at least two. • Genre-based questions • Do not repeat material across Sections B and C Shakespeare, novel, film, TV, poetry, short stories, theatre, aspects of language, journalism, non-fiction, online texts…

  13. Section C • Exploring Issues in Literature and Language • an exploration of issues in literature / language studied. ***Thesis-driven, not text driven

  14. Sections B and C - Tips for Success: • Focus on the question • Sustain your response to it throughout • Don’t skew the question • Address ALL parts, including quotations • Draw up parameters for discussion • Link texts

  15. Revision: • Practice planning • Map the links across all your texts • Use exemplars / models to analyse and compare against your own work • Practice framing the thesis in introductions • Text choice – knowledge and personal response

  16. Final advice: • - More than 800 words • -1 hour per essay • Address the chosen topic throughout • Central thesis, especially in Section C • - Evidence, quotations… • Read all questions first • Enthusiasm, personal engagement, critical response

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