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Welcome to Year 8 EnglishThis home page of our Wikispace outlines:The Course (this is an ongoing process and will be developed as the semester unfolds)How you will be assessedThe National Achievement (Performance) StandardsOur participation in an ACARA assessment projectYour Personal Digital Portfolio pages and how it all worksHERE is a copy of the Welcome letter that I gave out in class on Day One

= STOP PRESS = = Click here to go to a page which has all the Youtube presentations = = of the games the class has developed. =

=COURSE OUTLINE =

= TERM THREE =

Topic Five - Writing Folio
= TERM FOUR =

Topic Three - Creative Writing
=HOW YOU WILL BE ASSESSED = There are two types of activities and assessment in this course - Formative and Summative.

Much of what we do in class is formative work - designed to help you understand concepts better and improve your English skills. This is not assessed but is still very important. Your attitude and application to these formative tasks contribute to your EFFORT grade on your Term and Semester reports.
 * Formative **

This is the assessed task(s) that demonstrates your understanding of a text, concept or skill. These tasks go towards your Term and Semester report. Each Summative task will have a task sheet outlining the task description, how you will be assessed (the Assessment standards that will be used) and information about Plagiarism and Deadline Policy. These task sheets will be EMAILED to you and your parents DIRECTLY. Here is a sample of what they look like:
 * Summative **

= WHENEVER POSSIBLE, YOU ARE TO EMAIL ME YOUR SUMMATIVE WORK!! (see the email address above). = Every summative task will be assessed based on the National Curriculum's National Assessment Standards. Go to this page to find out what they are. We are also participating in a project that will require me to collect your work and submit it for further analysis. This link explains the project in more detail.
 * National Assessment Standards**

All your student work, results and comments are managed on an ASSESSMENT DATABASE that I maintain. Here is a sample of both what an individual Assessment sheet looks like AND your overall PROFILE page. We are working on having this database available for online viewing.