12 ATAR LITERATURE: TEXT CREATION Name:

CRITERION / Performance categories
Produces neatly presented work that meets the basic task brief -
  • Required length 250-300 words (+/- 10%)
  • Submission through SEQTA
  • Writes a piece of microfiction or a novel extract
  • Integrates a selected line (from a selection) from Othello into own work
  • Submission of rationale – 300 – 500 words in which creative choices are explained

ENGAGEMENT WITH TASK
Produces an original, imaginative, thoughtful and thought-provoking piece of writing that -
  • Shows evidence of deliberate and thoughtful crafting for effect (reader positioning, aesthetic appeal etc)
  • Develops themes and/or raises issues – perceptive and thoughtful
  • Uses selected line from Othelloeffectively and imaginatively
  • Shows evidence of having been inspired by Shakespeare’s oeuvre– themes and/or motifs and/or language features and/or stylistic devices etc.
/ Comment
Excellent / Well established / Satisfactory progress / Needs developing
CONVENTIONS OF GENRE/FORM
Understands and skilfully employs the appropriate conventions of chosen form of prose fiction (microfiction or novel extract) in a controlled and sustained way.
Creates a coherent and effectively structured piece of writing, paying attention to how the text works as a whole.
Excellent / Well established / Satisfactory progress / Needs developing
USE OF LANGUAGE FEATURES/ STYLISTIC DEVICES
Deliberate, original and effective use of a range of language and stylistic devices –
  • Use of appropriate, precise, varied, imaginative, experimental, original, evocative language to shape mood/emotion and reader response, create shades of meaning, and provide aesthetic enjoyment
  • Varied sentence structures to enhance effect - sentence openings, the organisation of words in sentences, punctuation
  • Evidence of having been inspired by some specific elements of Shakespeare’soeuvreeg word and sound patterns, startling visual imagery, use of both colloquial and highly patterned descriptive, figurative and allusive language, and so on

Excellent / Well established / Satisfactory progress / Needs developing
STANDARD OF WRITING SKILLS
Accurate written expression (spelling, grammar, punctuation) – evidence of proof-reading and editing
Excellent / Well established / Satisfactory progress / Needs developing