English Language Arts 30-1

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English Language Arts 30-1

• Diploma Exam Preparation Part A
• Written Response

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Part A Written Response (50)

• Personal Response to Texts
• 40
• one hour
• Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Texts
• 60
• two hours

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Personal Response to Texts ASSIGNMENT

• What do these texts suggest about . . . ?
• (texts may be visual, poetry and/or prose
  selections)
• In your writing, you must
• use a prose form
• connect one or more of the texts provided in this
  examination to your own ideas and impressions

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Initial Planning

• To which of the texts are you responding? What
  is the connection between the text and your
  response?
• What idea do you intend to explore and how does
  it address the topic?
• State your choice of prose form. Chose from
  prose forms that you have practised in ELA 30-1.
  You may respond using a personal, creative, or
  analytical perspective. Do not use a poetic form.

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prose forms

• short essay
• rant
• journal entry
• newspaper article
• editorial
• interior monologue
• short story
• personal observation

• letter
• eulogy
• interview
• rebuttal
• screen play
• speech
• anecdote
• commentary

et cetera
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Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Text

• Do not use the texts provided in this booklet for
  the Critical/Analytical Response to Literary
  Texts Assignment. Choose from short stories,
  novels, plays, screenplays, poetry, films, or
  other literary texts that you have studied in ELA
  30-1. When considering the works that you have
  studied, chose a literary text that is meaningful
  to you and relevant to the following assignment.

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The Assignment

• Discuss the idea developed by the text creator in
  your chosen text about _____ .
• In your planning and writing, consider the
  following instructions
• Carefully consider your controlling idea and how
  you will create a strong unifying effect in your
  response.
• As you develop your ideas, support them with
  appropriate, relevant, and meaningful examples
  from your choice of literary text.

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Initial Planning

• Use this space for your initial planning. This
  information assists markers in identifying the
  text you have chosen to support your ideas. The
  markers who read your composition will be very
  familiar with the literary text you have chosen.
• Literary Text and Creator
• (Note Write the title of your chosen literary
  text on the back cover of this examination
  booklet.)

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Personal Reflection on Choice of Text

• Briefly explore your reasons for selecting the
  literary text as support for your response.
  Markers will consider the information you provide
  here when considering the effectiveness of your
  supporting evidence.

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N E X - T in your paragraphs!!

• Introduction title, author, genre thesis
  statement
• Body paragraph ONE supporting reason 1
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• Body paragraph TWO supporting reason 2
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• Body paragraph THREE supporting reason 3
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• evidence / explanation
• Conclusion

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CONNECTIONS Part A

• Each text studied this term was studied in a
  particular thematic unit. You will make
  connections across these units, reviewing the
  texts to determine what each has in common with a
  text from another unit.
• The connection you make does NOT have to fall
  under one of the themes studied - hardship,
  self-preservation vs competing demands, or
  individual perspectives. The potential for
  connections between any two texts is limitless.
  You may want to use the Word document "essay
  questions" for connection ideas.

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PREPARE Part A

• 1. Choose three pieces of text that were studied
  this semester about which you would feel
  confident to write.
• 2. For EACH piece of text list and explain the
  following
• - title, author, genre
• - important characters
• - symbols, motifs
• - theme
• - brief quotations (3-5?) that are
  central to the piece

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texts studied

• Hamlet
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• The Kite Runner
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Iron Road
• Grinning and Happy
• Shining Houses
• The Painted Door
• On the Rainy River

• Dulce Et Decorum Est
• Guilt
• Field of Vision
• Where Theres a Wall
• The Uninvited
• Refugee Mother Child
• Students
• The Lady of Shalott

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REVIEW

• theory unit
• CARL notes
• CARL rubric
• CARL exemplars/rationales
• personal response notes
• personal response rubric
• final exam preparation tutorials
• previous and sample diploma exams
• three pieces of text
• U5L1, U5L2

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Part A bring

• dictionary
• thesaurus
• pen / pencil for planning even if you are
  writing on the computer
• highlighter(s) for marking key ideas / phrases on
  the exam
• Be aware that your books and pencil cases will be
  checked for extraneous information, which none of
  you will be carrying, anyway.  ?

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Part A check when finished

• Once your assignments have been printed off, and
  stapled into your exam booklet, be sure of the
  following
• it is YOUR work
• it is complete all assignments have been
  printed
• it is in the proper order
• your 6-digit registration number is on each page
• each page is numbered
• each assignment is stapled into its appropriate
  page in the exam booklet
• You are NOT allowed to take anything out of the
  exam room other than what you brought in.  This
  includes any copy of the assignments you
  completed on the exam.

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Part A et cetera

• Bring photo ID.
• Aim to arrive at RVLC (or your school) by 830 am
  for EACH diploma exam you write.
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• Go to bed early and get a good nights rest!!