Voices and signs - The Piano
Teacher Mark Osborne
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Duration
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| 13
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3
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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AS90723 (English 3.4): Respond critically to oral or visual text studied
(Formative assessment as this achievement standard is assessed externally)
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- Develop a critical response to oral or visual text using supporting evidence.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Using appropriate terminology, identify and evaluate the effectiveness of particular film making techniques.
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| Thinking Critically
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Identify, analyse, and evaluate the effects of combining verbal and visual film making techniques, relating the choice and use of verbal and visual features to particular purposes and audiences.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Transactional Writing
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Write an essay, exploring a proposition or point of view, structuring well researched material effectively, in an appropriate style.
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Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
The students now have information and notes based around the following areas:
- Character development (and associated techniques): Ada, Stewart and Baines
- Setting
- Film techniques
- Motifs (Light/Dark, Fingers and Confinement)
- Post Colonial issues
The students need to begin developing these ideas.
Students need to begin to mould the information about the film that they now have into more of a compact form. Assign a series of essay questions like those below, and provide two essay planners. Students should work in small groups to construct one essay, and construct one essay on their own.
Sample Essay Questions:
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Discuss and explain the importance of the following in a New Zealand feature film you have studied:
characterisation or sound effects and music or symbolism
- Compare the beginning and the end of a feature film you have studied, commenting on contrasts and links developed between them.
- 'In feature movies, chronological time is usually manipulated in a variety of ways' How is time dealt with in a feature film you have studied?
- 'Oscars are awarded each year for such things as best cinematography, best soundtrack, best special effects, best screenplay and so on. But in the end the success or otherwise of any film depends on the director.' Discuss with reference to a feature film you have studied.
(Used with permission of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
. Unauthorised copying is prohibited)
See also this sample external assessment activity for AS90723 (English 3.4)
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