12 July 2018
Notice 036/18
Amendments have been made to the English General Senior Syllabus 2019.
Unit 2
Unit objectives 1, 4 and 11 no longer specify particular genres as a focus for the unit. Assessment decisions are school-based across Units 1 and 2.
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Extended response — written response for a public audience
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 — persuasive spoken response
The specifications have been amended to clarify that students may ‘choose a contentious issue’ or that they may choose a ‘perspective about an issue studied’ as the basis for their persuasive argument.
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 3 (IA3): Examination — imaginative written response
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 external assessment (EA): Examination — analytical written response
Assessment objectives 1 and 6 have been clarified to include responsiveness to the unseen question/task as part of the objectives.
Subject matter
Unit 4 Topic 2: Critical responses to literary texts has been amended to better define the subject matter in ‘Text in contexts’, ‘Language and textual analysis’ and ‘Responding to and creating texts’.
The English General Senior Syllabus 2019 (v1.4) 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
