2017 Year 10 Written Text Assessment on ‘The Outsiders’

QUESTIONS (Choose ONE)

1. Describe at least one important relationship in the written text(s). Explain how this relationship positively or negatively influenced one or more characters.

2. Describe at least one important setting in the written text(s). Explain how the setting helped you to understand at least one idea. Note: “Setting” may refer to physical places as well as social and historical contexts.

3. Describe at least one important character in the written text(s). Explain how the character changes throughout the text(s).

4. Describe an important conflict in the written text. Explain how the conflict helped you to understand an important message.

5. Describe an incident that changes the course of events in the written text(s). Explain how this change helped you to understand an important idea.

6. Describe at least one important technique used in the written text(s). Explain how the use of the technique created impact. Note: Techniques could include figures of speech, syntax, word-choice, style, symbolism, structure, or narrative point-of-view.

And don’t forget the GOLDEN rules:

G ather ideas: who? what? when? where? why? how?

O rganise them: what’s the best order?

L ink ideas or paragraphs: “Not only do we learn…, but also…  .”

D escriptive words: stunning, exquisite, brilliant, excellent

E nabling words or phrases: for example, for instance, we see this     when, as an illustration, to demonstrate

N eat and tidy: punctuation, grammar, spelling

Statement about the  written text technique/aspect	Evidence from the written text	Explanation of the meaning shown in relation to the question	Explanation of author’s purpose	Your link to the human experience (self, society, or world) (A) within ‘The Outsiders’ (B) another  novel   (C) another text
Sentence Starters:	For example, For instance, We see this when, This is demonstrated,	This shows… This makes the audience think… This makes the audience feel… This makes us understand…	S.E.Hinton did this to The purpose of this This was done to	This aspect can be compared to… This aspect can be contrasted to… This can be juxtaposed to… This reminds me of...
Examples: In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, dialogue was used to show the state of  Macbeth’s mind.	For instance, the line “Is this a dagger I see before me?” demonstrates Macbeth questioning  his reality.	This technique reveals Macbeth’s character  by showing the audience that he has started to hallucinate and that his mind is playing tricks on him, or, alternatively, that the witches are having more influence on him than he realises.	Shakespeare did this to show the consequences of Macbeth’s guilty actions. As the play progresses, Macbeth’s mind becauses more troubled and Shakespeare uses Macbeth’s  dialogue, actions, and the conversations of other to reflect this.	This dialogue  can be juxtaposed with the feast when he has a visitation of Banquo’s ghost and says “Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect”. This highlights, to some degree, the fact that Macbeth is conscious of his hallucinations. However, a characteristic of insanity is the insane person not knowing that are in fact insane and by the end of the play, Macbeth no longer knows what is real and what is imagined around him. This highlights the fact that guilt through murder and ‘unfettered’ ambition can affect the state of people's’ minds.

Statement about the  written text technique/aspect	Evidence from the written text	Explanation of the meaning shown  in relation to the question	Explanation of author’s purpose	Your link to the human experience (self, society, or world) (A) within ‘The Outsiders’ (B) another  novel   (C) another text
Sentence Starters:	For example, For instance, We see this when, This is demonstrated,	This shows… This makes the audience think… This makes the audience feel… This makes us understand…	The author did this to The purpose of this This was done to	This aspect can be compared to… This aspect can be contrasted to… This can be juxtaposed to… This reminds me of...
In the SEXXXY template below, answer ONE of the following questions: I am answering question number: 3 Copy and paste your question here: Describe at least one important character in the written text(s). Explain how the character changes throughout the text(s) Planning Gather and Order ideas: Ponyboy was a smart kid, a gangster, has lots of friends, likes to read, and ran away because of darry slapping him, and then went to a h Introduction: (Optional)
SEXXXY 1 The book ‘The Outsiders’ has a lot of important characters but i am going to talk about one and that is Ponyboy	This is demonstrated when the book is about to start and it already mentioned Ponyboy was the one who got jumped and possibly the main character of the story	This makes us understand that Ponyboy is the main character because the story is running from his point of view and what he sees is what is being written in the story	The purpose of this was to show us how a gangster life is and how it is hard and extremely painful for the parents eyes to see how their child became a gangster and now he is out there getting in trouble	This can be juxtaposed to what happened in the book ‘The Outsiders’ when they were inside a hospital and Johnny was in a bed and Ponyboy and Darry are outside and talked about what happened and then Darry cried because of Ponyboy and how he almost died and he was so sad that he couldn’t hold his tears and then Ponyboy almost cried too.
SEXXXY 2 The Book ‘The Outsiders’ is written by a female writer named S.E. Hinton which was a very skillful writer	We see this in the beginning of the book where it all started where the ‘greaser’ named Ponyboy was jumped and he was getting bullied by some socs and that moment was almost a real feeling to the reader where he was almost cut and it made it more intense	This makes the audience feel amazed of what the book has in store for us and makes us want to read even more and that is amazing and also scary because they could scare us easily and that will be awesome	The purpose of this was to make the audience feel what was happening to the character inside the story and it was perfect and amazing because they could make us feel very tense of what is gonna happen next in the book	This can juxtaposed to the part in the book where the boy named Ponyboy and his friend Johnny was somewhere near a church where they were staying at and then suddenly started to burn into flames but they were children inside and they tried to save them and this part of the story was so amazing and very tense that it can win an oscar
SEXXXY 3 The book ‘The Outsiders’ has a lot of knowledge in store for us and this book has too much that cannot be learned at only reading it once	For example, the part when Darry slapped Ponyboy because of him not coming back at home early and he was late to come at home and then when Ponyboy was slapped he ran away because of his anger, this part is teaching us to not judge a person that quickly because he might have a reason for slapping Ponyboy	This shows us that this book does have some beautifully meanings and it is an amazing book and there is more lesson’s inside the book that can relate in the human life and can also be a guide for our lives	This was done to show us how to walk the life of a clean man without mistakes that we just have to do what is we know is good and not the bad ones we know	This aspect can be contrasted to an event in the book like the part where Ponyboy and Johnny ran away because of a big mistake that they did but didn’t mean to do it but did it because they were forced to do it and did it by self-defense and that teaches us to be honest and tell the authorities what happened especially to cases like self-defense because the police might think it is murder but actually not.
SEXXXY 4 The Book ‘The Outsiders’ was written by S.E. Hinton and it was in the 19th century were the world was young and violence was not that extreme only blood and no death	This is demonstrated throughout the book and it’s events that were so unlike the time’s today because the gangs in our time are way different from before now in gang wars they have guns and other scary equipment but before when this descriptive book was written it was the time when they only used their own fists and did not rely on other things like deadly and dangerous weapons	This makes the audience feel different and amazed of what are the difference between the gangs from today and before and what are the difference between their life from then and from today	The author did this to show us that the life of having a gang is very hard and sometimes even terrifying and because of that the world changed and now they are really into killing each other	This aspect can be compared to what is happening throughout the book just like when they had a rumble between the wealthy and the poor and when the ‘greasers’ are alone walking in the streets they would get jumped by some wealthy people called in the book ‘socs or socials’ and they always become chaos

Conclusion:

(Optional)

Ideas/Purposes and Audiences I have shown commitment and resilience in my learning by adding or changing details to support my ideas.	I have expressed ideas and used statements, evidence, and explanations and attempted to answer the question with some aspects of SEXY paragraphs.	I have formed and communicated ideas by using statements, evidence, and explanations and attempted to answer the question with SEXY paragraphs. I have shown commitment and resilience to my learning by adding or changing details to support my ideas.	I show increasingly comprehensive ideas by using statements, evidence, and explanations correctly to answer the question in  1-2 SEXY paragraphs. I have developed my  ideas by adding details or making links to the text, other texts, society, or the world.	I show comprehensive ideas by using statements, evidence, and explanations correctly to answer the question in 3 or more SEXY paragraphs. I have worked towards creating a coherent, planned whole essay by adding details to ideas or making links to the text, other texts, society, or the world.
Ideas/Purposes And Audiences Grade:	L M H	L M H	L M H	L M H

Structure	I have achieved sequences my ideas with SEXY paragraphs. I may have linked my paragraphs, and have an intro, body, and conclusion.	I have achieved some coherence through sequencing my ideas with SEXY paragraphs. I may have linked my paragraphs, and have an intro, body, and conclusion.	I have achieved a sense of coherence through developing my ideas with SEXY paragraphs. I probably have linked my paragraphs, and have an intro, body, and conclusion.	I have achieved a sense of coherence through developing my ideas with SEXY paragraphs. I probably have linked my paragraphs, and an intro, body, and conclusion.
Structure Grade:	L M H	L M H	L M H	L M H

Language Features (Persuasive, filmic, or written, depending upon the essay.) I have used Google add-ons, extensions, and apps to proofread and edit my work	I have used descriptive words and language features to engage interest and communicate meaning. I have used grammatical and spelling conventions, appropriately and with increasing accuracy.	I have used a range of descriptive words and language features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest. I have used grammatical and spelling conventions, appropriately and with only a few intrusive errors.	I have used a wide range of descriptive words and language features with control to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest. I have used an increasing range of words and  grammatical and spelling conventions  appropriately, effectively, and with accuracy.	I have used a wide range of descriptive words and language features with control to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest. I have used grammatical and spelling conventions  appropriately, effectively, and with accuracy.
Language Features Grade:	L M H	L M H	L M H	L M H

Progressions: Overall Grade:

Level 3 Indicators L M H

Level 4 Indicators L M H

Level 5 Indicators L M H

Level 6 Indicators L M H