Theme Study: Unit Standard 8823

Teacher Mike Fowler

Year	NCEA Level	Suggested duration
12	2	3 weeks

Achievement Standard Being Assessed	Achievement Criteria
Unit Standard 8823 version 4: Investigate a theme across an inclusive range of selected texts	Element 1: Select and read an inclusive range of written/oral/visual texts related to a theme, and maintain a record of the reading experience Element 2: Investigate a theme in texts and present the outcomes of the investigation.

Guidelines for use

Students will develop theme studies based on a range of selected texts.

Conditions

You will complete work in class and for homework. Your teacher will guide you on how much time you have for this task.

Teachers may guide students actively through the initial tasks helping them to identify techniques mentioned. Teachers may show how the techniques used in the exemplars can be applied to students' own writing.

As they develop drafts, 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.

Students should have several opportunities during the year to develop their transactional writing skills

Resource requirements

Resources provided linked to the unit plan: exemplars A, B, C, D, E and F (see learning tasks 3 and 5); assessment (RTF 36KB) .
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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.