Conflict in God's Own?
Teacher Steve Webb
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Duration
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| 12
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2
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8-10 weeks
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| Achievement Standard being assessed
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Achievement criteria
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| AS90381 (English 2.8): Investigate a language or literature topic and present information in written form
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- Propose research question(s) and select information from a range of referenced sources.
- Present accurate information and draw conclusions.
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| AS90376 (English 2.2): Produce crafted and developed formal transactional writing
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- Develop and support ideas in a piece of formal transactional writing.
- Craft writing to create effects that are appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
- Structure material in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
- Use writing conventions accurately.
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| Processes
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| Processing Information
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Use a variety of resources (written, visual, oral, including electronic media) to select relevant detail, and then analyse and interpret appropriately, presenting these findings in the manner required, and evaluating the research processes used.
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| Thinking Critically
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Critically evaluate the social and historical implications of each text as is appropriate for the research task.
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| Supporting achievement objective
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Learning outcomes
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| Listening to Texts
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Critically read several texts dealing with land issues, both fictional and factual, and interpret their significance and value to the research task, noting how visual and verbal features are organised for effect where appropriate.
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| Transactional Writing
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Present a considered, coherent piece of writing debating their point of view on the land issues, structuring well researched material effectively for an audience of their peers.
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Introduction
In this unit, students initially focus on the theme of Maori Land Claims. This research task requires students to read one novel (Potiki), view one short video (Journey), and listen to one audio tape (The Pohutukawa Tree), and then read/view several websites related to the topic, before selecting relevant information related to the task. Students then present research reports which will be used for
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. The report can also be developed for
activity2 (RTF 8KB)
.
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Conditions
The
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and
activity2 (RTF 8KB)
should be worked on in the classroom under teacher supervision as much as possible to ensure authenticity. Refer to the exemplars in the
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. Teachers may show how the techniques used in the exemplars can be applied to students' own work.
Between drafts of any assessable written work, teachers can advise students that their writing may need further work on ideas, language, structure or accuracy in spelling, punctuation or paragraphing but not correct errors. Students should have access to dictionaries to check their writing. Word processing is acceptable providing it is done under teacher supervision.
Teachers are directed to the Assessment Notes contained in the Achievement Standard 1.8 & 1.2
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Possible local adaptation
Where local adaptations are made, teachers and schools should ensure that they have:
- checked that the adapted assessment validly assesses the standard;
- checked the copyright status of any material imported into the assessment resource;
- complied with all internal and external quality assurance requirements.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Learning task 4
Assessment
Assessment tasks
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activity2 (RTF 8KB)
Assessment schedules
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Exemplars
The exemplars are on Maori land claims, the same topic which students are researching. Teachers should use these exemplars for summative assessment comparisons only. (NB: there is no 2.2 achieved exemplar).
exemplar_a (RTF 15KB)
exemplar_b (RTF 17KB)
exemplar_c (RTF 21KB)
exemplar_d (RTF 24KB)
Print
Electronic
Other
- Video: Journey by director John Anderson (from the Patricia Grace short story of the same name) from Aries Productions and TVPC Massey University 1987
- Audio: Bruce Mason, The Pohutukawa Tree, A profile of the author published by Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Box 3293, Wellington
