Reading for meaning and craft: symbolism, perspective, genre and the way adaptations change a story.
These are the statements the English Year 8 syllabus makes about Reading and Viewing. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Plot, subplot and complication - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Narrative perspective and reliability - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Symbolism and motif - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Poetic form and sound - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Genre conventions - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Satire and irony - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Film techniques: shot, angle and sound - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Representation and stereotyping - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Comparing a text with its adaptation - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Evaluating bias in a news report - Reading and Viewing, Year 8.
Year 8 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Reading and Viewing are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Year 8 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Reading and Viewing opens the English Year 8 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Year 8 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.