Year 10 Oral Task Assessment Criteria — Podcast (25marks)

MARKING CRITERIA

Criteria / A
Outstanding Achievement
25-21 / B
HighAchievement
20-16 / C
Sound Achievement
15-11 / D
Basic Achievement
10-6 / E
Limited Achievement5-1
Introduction / Provides relevant information in an attention grabbing way and establishes a clear purpose engaging the listener immediately. / Provides relevant information and establishes a clear purpose that engages the listener / Provides sound information and establishes a purpose that engages the listener / Provides limited information
Attempts to engage the listener / Describes some aspects of the novelin an elementary way
Content / Engaging, sophisticated content that demonstrates deep knowledge of Hinton’s exploration of ideas in The Outsiders supported by well chosen, detailed textual reference.
Demonstrates perceptive understanding of form, purpose and audience. / Engagingcontent that demonstrates effective knowledge of Hinton’s exploration of ideas in The Outsiders supported by relevant textual reference.
Demonstrates thorough understanding of form, purpose and audience. / Sound content demonstrating sound knowledge of Hinton’s exploration of ideas in The Outsiders supported by textual reference.
Demonstrates sound understanding of form, purpose and audience. / Limited content demonstrating little knowledge of ideas explored in Hinton’s, The Outsiders.
Demonstrates limited understanding of form, purpose and audience. / Content demonstrates elementary understanding of Hinton’s, The Outsiders.
Demonstrates basic understanding of form, purpose and audience.
Delivery / Well-rehearsed, fluent delivery
that holds audience interest and demonstratesconfident control of language.
Effective use of tone, pace, and projection / Rehearsed, mainly fluent deliverythat is interesting and demonstrates effective control of language.
Appropriate tone, pace, and projection / Sound delivery
that is mostly interesting and demonstrates sound control of language.
Tone, pace, and projection mostly appropriate / Limited delivery
which demonstrateslimited control of language.
Attempts to use appropriate tone, pace, and projection / Elementary delivery
which demonstrates elementary control of language.
Monotone or inappropriate tone, pace, or projection
Creativity / Highly creative and original / Creative and original / Displays some creativity / Displays little creativity / lacks originality

SOUTHERN CROSS SCHOOL K-12

DISTANCE EDUCATION CENTRE

ASSESSMENT TASK NOTIFICATION

STUDENT: Aisha Fairburn-Harwood TEACHER: Tamara Smith

COURSE: Year 10 English

DATE DUE: November 5, 2014

TASK DETAILS

ASSESSMENT TASK NO: 3

TIME LENGTH:4-5minutes WEIGHTING: 25%

TYPE OF TASK: ORAL

DESCRIPTION OF TASK:

You are to create a presentation on the ‘The Outsiders’.

You may present your ideas in one of the following forms: an audio podcast, interview, review or proposal.

See task inside and support material on planning and presenting your work.

MODE OF SUBMISSION:.mp3, .mp4 saved on a CD-ROM or memory stick

PRESENTATION TYPE: send in podcast OR recorded interview, OR recorded review or recorded proposal

OUTCOMES TO BE ASSESSED:

5.1responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure

5.4effectively transfers knowledge, skills and understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

5.9thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

Year 10, 2014

Southern Cross Distance Education Centre

TASK:

Identify and discuss your understanding of S. E. Hinton’s exploration of two big ideas in The Outsiders. Focus on characterisation and setting in your answer.

You may present your ideas in any one of the following forms.

1Create an engaging audio podcast*

2Write and record a radio interview

3Record a review of The Outsiders on Books & Arts DailyAAA Radio

4Write and record a proposal for ABC3 for a mini-series.

Length 4-5 minutes

*A podcast is a media file that is distributed over the internet for playback on mobile devices (MP3, MP4 players and phones) and personal computers. To help you with your audio podcast you can look at the following sites.

To create a podcast using Audiboo you can follow Nik Peachey’s ‘how to’ video.

› Support › Tech Tools for Teachers Go to Support. Type in ‘podcasting’ to find Tech tools for teachers: Podcasting. You will get a print download. On the right hand side you will find a green arrow pointing to Related files. The third one is

How to make a podcast using Audioboo: Video screencast tutorial

Video Press the video icon to see Peachey’s tutorial.

PLANNING

In this unit you studied how Hinton explored ideas such as class conflict, the importance of belonging to a group or family and male adolescent friendships. You also wrote an essay that led you to think deeply about the issues explored in The Outsiders.

For this task you should:

Re-read your work on The Outsiders, the exercises you did and the feedback from your teachers. Your focus is on Hinton’s exploration of two big ideas and how these are conveyed through characterisation (concentrate on 2 or 3 characters) and setting, so make your own notes under the following headings—Ideas, Characterisation, Setting. Look at the table below which contains some ideas to get you going.

Ideas explored in the novel / Characterisation / Setting
Importance of belonging
The gang gives the characters the support structure they lack at home and in society. / The gang members are like a family.
‘I could have gotten one of the gang members to come along,one of the four boys Darry, Soda and I have grown up with and consider family.’p3 / The Curtis house was always open. ‘Our front door is always unlocked in case one of the boys is hacked off at his parents and needs a place to lay over and cool off.’p105
Not belonging
The greasers were outsiders. They were cut off from mainstream society by poverty and hardship. / Greasers felt they were on the bottom rung of the class system. ‘We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class. p 3 and this was reinforced by the Socs. ‘”You know what a greaser is?” Bob asked. “White trash with long hair.” p 67 The greasers find it hard to empathise with the Socs and it is only when they meet as individuals, eg, Ponyboy’s meeting with Cherryat the drive-in that they find common ground.When Ponyboy discovers Cherry likes watching sunsets, he thought,‘Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.’ p41 / Social and economic divisions are emphasised by the distinction made between the east and west side of Ponyboy’s town. The Socs were‘the jet set, the West-side rich kids…’ the term “greaser” …‘is used to class all us boys on the East Side.’ p 2-3
Masculinity — Hinton challenges traditional ideas about masculinity.
Hinton, in using Ponyboy as the narrator, allows the reader to view the world through his eyes and empathise with his experiences. / Ponyboy,in order to survive,follows traditional ideas of male toughness yet he is sensitive and enjoys the beauty in sunsets, reading, poetry andpainting. Although he is with the greasers he is not really like them but feels he has to hide his true nature. Johnny recognises this and writes in his letter, ‘Don’t be so bugged over being a greaser. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.’p 216 / The church at Jay Mountain provided a safe haven where Ponyboy couldbe himself. ‘I couldn’t tell Two-Bit or Steve or even Darry about the sunrise and clouds and stuff.’ p 75

When you have written lots of ideas under each heading think about which form of presentation you will use and how you might talk about Hinton’s ideas in an interesting way.[You might like to interview Susan Hinton and actor Rob Lowe who played Sodapop in the 1983 film, ‘The Outsiders’ or create a podcast where Ponyboy commentson the way the novel is put together in terms of characterisation, setting and ideas explored. You might like to be an academic creating a podcast for your students or you might just like to be yourself reviewing the novel on Books & Arts Daily. You might even have some brilliant ideas about an exciting mini-series proposal.]

Write your script/review/proposal so that you sound more professional when it comes time to record.

Look at the marking criteria to see how you can maximise your marks. Make sure you have showcased your insights into some of the big ideas that Hinton is exploring in the novel.

PRESENTING YOUR ORAL

Practise, record, listen, change, refine and time your podcast/interview/review/proposal. When you are satisfied, you can submit it to your teacher for feedback before the due date or submit by the due date if you are happy with it.

HAVE FUN AND GOOD LUCK 

Year 10, 2014