Assessment Criteria for Y9

ALFRISTON COLLEGE IMAGE SPEAK 1 EXAMINATION TERM 1

READING [50 QUESTIONS]

Close Reading Graded Assessment Task – spend up to 100 minutes on these questions

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This is an assessment of how well you read. Read each passage and answer the questions on this paper. Use the 3 Reading Strategies to help you…PREVIEW THE TEXT, CLICKS AND CLUNKS, LOOKING BACK.

POSTERS

A travel company has produced the range of posters below and on page 2. Study the posters and answer the questions that follow. 7 marks

A / / B /
C / / D /

Source: ‘Thinking Creatively’, Written by Robin Landa, North Light Books, 2002.

What are three layout features the four posters have in common?

1 ______

2 ______

3 ______

4 What would be a reason for having common layout features in all four posters?

______

Who are these posters aimed at? Explain your answer.

5 Target audience ______

6 Evidence ______

7 What does the presence of travel journals in posters A and B suggest?

______

POEM

Study the poem “Skateboard” and answer the questions that follow on pages 3 and 4.

7 marks

Belle Avery
1
5
10
15
20
25 / The old ladies trembled
when they saw me rolling
and rolling
speeding
and speeding
right from the top of the street.
They leaped to the side,
I think they stopped breathing
as I rumbled, clicket,
and I rumbled, clacket,
over the joins in the paving.
Louder
and louder,
nearer
and nearer,
faster and faster,
with wind in my hair
and power in my thighs,
momentum
MOMENTUM!
The old ladies trembled
and rattled their wrinkles,
breathed in with a squeak
and out with a squawk,
their bright eyes boggled behind their bifocals
for in a red splotch by their long bony feet,
I motionless lay with the skin off my seat. /
Source: School Journal, Part 3, No 1,
Learning Media, 1989

In the opening five lines the poet use words to reinforce the idea of movement.

8 Give an example from the poem.______

9 What is this method called?______

10 In fewer than 20 words, retell what happened in the poem.

______

11 What effect does the angled shape of the poem have?

______

Write down two words that the poet has invented, i.e., you would not find these words in a dictionary.

12 ______

13 ______

14 What effect does the author achieve by using these particular words?

______

Study the advertisement for Novartis and answer the questions that follow on page 5.

6 marks

Source: ‘Thinking Creatively’, Written by Robin Landa, North Light Books, 2002.

15 In the advertisement ‘Novartis’ is said to… (TICK the box next to the correct answer.)

(A) have therapies for Alzheimer’s.

(B) have therapies soon.

(D) have no therapies for Alzheimer’s.

(E) be exploring therapies.

Identify and explain the effect of using a visual contrast in this advertisement.

16 Visual contrast:

______

17 Effect:

______

Identify and explain the effect of using a contrast using text in this advertisement.

18 Contrast using text: ______

19 Effect:

______

20 What is one of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease shown in this advertisement?

______

LOGOS

These are the logos for the ‘Timbuktuu Coffee Bar’. Study them and answer the questions below. This section continues on page 6. 7 marks

What are two features that the 4 logos above have in common?

21 ______

22 ______

23 What is the logo designer attempting to suggest about the ‘Timbuktuu Coffee Bar’ with the 2 logos above?

______

What are two advantages of the following logo over the 2 logos in question 23?

24 ______

25 ______

26 Businesses often have one logo but this coffee bar has many. What is the advantage of having different logos?

______

27 The FIRST four logos (in questions 21 and 22) have no obvious link to coffee. What purpose do they serve when all seven of the logos are considered together?

______

FLAG

This task is about the New Zealand flag and the discussions about a new flag. 6 marks

28 In our newspapers and talkback shows there has been debate over a new flag for New Zealand. Give one reason why some people might think we should change our flag.

______

29 Give one reason for keeping our flag as it is now.

______

30 Your task is now to redesign the current New Zealand flag.

Current flag

Think about a possible new design. Use a planning box to sketch ideas, consider colour and shapes.

Now draw a final version of your new flag.

You DO NOT NEED colour pencils or felts. Indicate colour(s) with arrows or labels. (You may use colour pencils or felts if you have them, but don’t ask to borrow them.)

My new flag…

31 Explain the reasoning behind the colours you chose. ______

______

32 Explain the reasoning behind the shapes you used.

______

33 Give one reason why your new flag is better, or not better, than the original?

______

POEM

Read the poem “The Summit” and answer the questions that follow onpages 9 and 10.

13 marks

5
10
15
20 /

The Summit

Their steps were weary, keen was the wind,
Fast vanishing their oxygen fuel,
And the summit ridge was fanged and cruel –
Fanged and cruel, bitter and bare.
And now with a sickening shock
They saw before them a towering wall
Of smooth and holdless rock.
O ghastly fear – with goal so near
To find the way blocked!
On one side darkly the mountain dropped,
On the other two plunging miles of peak
Shot from the dizzy skyline down
In a silver streak.
On they plodded, Martian-weird
With pouted mask and icicle beard
That cracked and tinkled, broke and rattled,
On to the summit –
Till at last the ridge began to drop.
Two swings, two whacks of Hillary’s axe
And they stood on top.
By Ian Serrailler /

What experience is being described in each of the following lines from the poem?

For example: “keen was the wind” (line 1) – tells us that the wind was very biting, which made their progress more difficult.

34 “Fast vanishing their oxygen fuel” (line 2)

______

35 “Of smooth and holdless rock” (line 7)

______

36 “Two swings, two whacks of Hillary’s axe

And they stood on top” (lines 19-20)

______

For each of the following poetic techniques find an example from the poem and explain the effect gained by using language in that way. The terms have been defined in this table…

Onomatopoeia – The use of words which imitate or suggest the sound they describe
e.g. sizzle or boom.
Alliteration – The repeating of a particular letter or sound (usually consonants at the beginning of words) to produce an interesting effect
e.g. the student slowly stirred the syrup by the silent sea.
Metaphor – Compares two things by saying that one thing is something else
e.g. that student is a computer.
Quote – This means copy the example from the poem

Example of Onomatopoeia,line: ______

37 Quote______

38 Effect ______

______

Example of Alliteration,line: ______

39 Quote______

40 Effect ______

______

Example of Metaphor,line: ______

41 Quote______

42 Effect ______

______

The poet writes about the feelings of the two climbers. Quote two lines which suggest these feelings, and explain what the feelings are.

43 Line ____ Quote______

44 Explanation ______

______

45 Line ____ Quote______

46 Explanation ______

______

Look at the advertisement for Kaikoura and answer the questions that follow. 4 marks

Source: Air NZ Photos; Barbara Todd, Brian Betts and Lloyd Gregory.

'Naturally Kaikoura' pamphlet. (Image altered).

47 The phrase “magic where the mountains meet the sea” uses… (TICK the box next to the correct answer.)

(A) repetition.

(B) simile.

(D) alliteration.

In the logo “naturally” has two meanings. What are they?

48______

49______

50 The logo and the two photos have common features. What is one?

______

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Check your exam!

Make sure:

1. you’ve written your name

2. you’ve written your Image Speak class and teacher

3. you’ve answered all the reading questions

If there’s time left…

How many words of 3 letters or more can you make out of this phrase? (No plurals, no non-New Zealand words, no swear words)

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