3.8 Understanding Lit/Lang w. Critical Texts - Genre Rules

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This is a complete workbook designed to scaffold students through the NCEA Achievement Standard, 3.8 Develop an Understanding of Literature/Language using Critical Texts (AS91479). Students investigate the use of genre and genre theory (genre as a response to society), and apply their findings to a studied text.
 
Note: This resource could also be adapted for NCEA Achievement Standard 3.4 for Media Studies, "Demonstrate understanding of a relationship between a media genre and society."
 
Included in this resource: 
• The complete student workbook - see more details about this in notes further below.
• Links to Investigative logs in two Google formats (sheets and docs) as well as a separate one in Microsoft Word format (students/teachers can choose which they'll use).
 
The student workbook includes: 
• Information about genre, genre ‘anomalies’ and genre hybrids.
• Information about critical texts and where to find them.
• Guides to formatting references for bibliographies.
• Discussion about what making critical judgements ‘looks like’.
• A coversheet for the assessment task.
• A hyperlinked table of contents.
• Clearly unpacked achievement criteria.
• Checkpoints to help students manage their time.
• Checklists to help students ensure they've met requirements.
• Hyperlinks to external sites and to help navigate the document (including a 'home' button on every page to take students to the table of contents)
 
Format:
This resource comes as an A4-sized document in Microsoft PowerPoint. This means you can:
• Easily upload it to your Google Drive if you prefer a Google format.
• Edit / Tweak to suit your / your students' needs.
• Share with students digitally so that they can work on it online.
• Print as hard copy work booklets.
 
As always, feedback is welcome!