14 September - 20 September

Note on Common Assessment Task in English

As you are aware, the term 4 CAT for English is a response to film essay. All film revision and learning resources from your film study are in your books or on google classroom (search by topic:  English CAT: visual text: Pūrākau from your analysis)

You will be assessed on your discussion of ideas within and beyond the texts, as well as your technical writing skills. 

If you wish to, you can practise your essay writing, using any of the following practice questions. I am happy to give feedback :)

1. Write an essay exploring how today’s audience can learn from the experiences of one or more characters who take risks in order to make change.
2. Identify a conflict in a text you have studied. Write an essay exploring how this conflict shows an important idea or ideas in the text. 
3. Select an idea in the text you have studied. Write an essay exploring how this idea is important in the text as a whole.
4. Using an important setting in a text you have studied, explore how the setting was important to an idea OR character in the text.
5. Mauria te pono (Believe in yourself) Write an essay exploring a moment where a character shows a strong sense of self belief and discuss how and why this belief impacts on the development of the character.