12 July 2018
Notice 038/18
Amendments have been made to the Literature General Senior Syllabus 2019.
Text selection
The text selection requirements for all units have been clarified to state that students must study one complete play, one complete prose text and one complete film or episode of a television series as part of the school-based selection of texts from the categories indicated.
Assessment guidance
Assessment guidance for Units 1 and 2 has been amended for clarity.
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Examination — analytical written response
Assessment objective 3 has been amended to include ‘others’ interpretations of and/or responses to this text’ as part of the analysis. This change is reflected in the instrument-specific marking guide.
The specifications have been clarified to acknowledge that students may be responding to a question or a task.
The conditions have been updated to state that students may bring in 200 words of quotations from the studied text/s, signed by the teacher, rather than a clean copy of the text.
The instrument-specific marking guide has been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2): Extended response — imaginative spoken/multimodal response
The assessment description has been amended to include the statement: ‘Students may respond in any imaginative form that allows them to demonstrate the assessment objectives’.
The instrument-specific marking guide has been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
The wording of the characteristics in the instrument-specific marking guide has been amended for clarity.
Summative internal assessment 3 (IA3): Extended response — imaginative written response
The assessment description has been amended to include the statement: ‘Students may respond in any imaginative form that is predominantly prose and allows them to demonstrate the assessment objectives’.
The instrument-specific marking guide has been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
The wording of the characteristics in the instrument-specific marking guide has been amended for clarity.
Summative external assessment (EA): Examination — analytical written response
Assessment objectives 1 and 6 have been clarified to include responsiveness to the unseen question or task as part of the objectives.
The Literature General Senior Syllabus 2019 (v1.3) and associated resources are available in the QCAA Portal. The syllabus is also available on the QCAA website.
More information
Lisa Bottomley, Learning Area Manager (English and Languages)
Email: EnglishandLanguages@qcaa.qld.edu.au
Telephone: (07) 3120 6129
- Last reviewed:
- 25 July 2018
- Last updated:
- 12 July 2018
