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Here is what you need to help you complete your independent novel essay. Choose a question and complete your essay. Share it with me once you have finished and I will mark it and put feedback on for you.
1. Describe at least ONE friendship that was important in the text(s). Explain how the friendship helped you to understand one or more characters or individuals in the text(s).
2. Describe at least ONE idea that is relevant to people in today’s society in the written text(s). Explain why the idea, as shown in the text(s), is relevant to people in today’s society.
2. Describe at least ONE idea that is relevant to people in today’s society in the written text(s). Explain why the idea, as shown in the text(s), is relevant to people in today’s society.
Help for question 1:
Help for question 2:
Quizlet - learning quotes
Click HERE to find the quotes quizlet. Do the 'Match' activity.
Malorie Blackman - comments on her novel
PAST EXAM PAPERS:
Summary
Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians - an elite peacekeeping force - to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy.
When Kaspar joins the Guardians, he has a chance encounter with a rebel - a beautiful girl named Rhea. Haunted from that moment on by strange visions and memories - memories that could only belong to Rhea - he realises he hasn't been told the truth about what the rebels really want, and what he's really fighting for. |
Dystopian fiction:
Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by a focus on negatives such as mass poverty, public mistrust, police state, squalor, suffering, or oppression, that society has most often brought upon itself. Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world. In the words of Keith M. Booker, dystopian literature is used to "provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices that might otherwise be taken for granted or considered natural and inevitable".
The Power of the Media
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NCEA Standard Information
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Characters:
Key Events
Things to think about:
- Totalitarianism – refers to a centralised government where the state holds total control over the society and seeks to control all forms of public and private life wherever possible. Does this make it that much harder to think for yourself? Does it also make it that much more important for us to question and seek answers for ourselves?
- Governments and leaders have used propaganda for years as a way to manipulate and control a population.
- The lengths that some people will go to in order to gain power. This might be in the form of land, money or political leadership.
- Do the ends ever justify the means? (Meaning when are some things necessary? Is it morally right to go to any lengths for something if the end result is positive? What about what happens in between?)
- Fear is a strong emotion. Sometimes fear is used to control. While people are afraid, they are more easily led and less likely to question. Terrorism is used as a form of control.
- We become desensitised to something the longer we are exposed to it – this is dangerous because if we are accepting of something, eventually we will not even notice it is a problem (think of the doctors, nurses and the Guardians within the North Wing – while people are being tortured in front of them, they are discussing sports scores etc).
- It is easy to distance ourselves from things that happen around us when they happen to people that are ‘different’ to us. We cannot identify with them and their situation, and therefore it is easier to ignore. We turn the channel to avoid looking at images of children in third world countries. Voss felt no remorse or sympathy for the children of the Crusaders who were murdered in the Loring School gas attack.
- Is taking a life ‘noble’? Should a person’s own request be more important than the law?
Resources to help you:
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NCEA Exam Layout
Click HERE to see last year's exam paper for novel.
NCEA Exemplars for 1.1
Here you will find links to NCEA Level 1 1.1. exemplars. Note how the Merit and Excellence exemplars answer the questions in a more fluid way.
You are all following the structure well. Now you can be more unique and interesting with the way you form your paragraphs. You do not have to start with 'the first way' and 'the second way...'. Do not be afraid to mix it up a bit and be more engaging.
Here is the examination paper that relates to the exemplars below.
Excellence exemplars
Merit exemplars
Achieved exemplar
Not achieved exemplar
You are all following the structure well. Now you can be more unique and interesting with the way you form your paragraphs. You do not have to start with 'the first way' and 'the second way...'. Do not be afraid to mix it up a bit and be more engaging.
Here is the examination paper that relates to the exemplars below.
Excellence exemplars
Merit exemplars
Achieved exemplar
Not achieved exemplar
IN CLASS ESSAYS
STRUCTURE:
Introduction
Body paragraphs
Conclusion
Your introduction sets up your essay. Make a statement linked to the question to start your essay. Try to avoid starting "In the novel...."
Your conclusion is NOT a reworded introduction. Sum up your ideas and make deeper thinking statements. What have you learned? What was the author's purpose?
Body paragraphs
Conclusion
Your introduction sets up your essay. Make a statement linked to the question to start your essay. Try to avoid starting "In the novel...."
Your conclusion is NOT a reworded introduction. Sum up your ideas and make deeper thinking statements. What have you learned? What was the author's purpose?
1st essay question:
Describe a character in a text you have studied, and explain why that character was a good role model for teenagers, supporting your points with specific evidence.