YEAR

9 ENGLISH
TOPIC: Heroes Who are they?
Inquiry

How can I influence others?

How are people represented in literature?

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT TASK 4 DUE: Friday Week 9

Your task:
Write a poem about Peaks experience climbing Mount Everest, using at least 2 poetic devices.

Poetic devices:

5 senses
simile
metaphor
personification

Your assignment should

have a title
have your name on it
be typed
have an appropriate image or images to accompany the poem

You will be provided with class time to develop your assignment, however you will have to use some homework time to
ensure you meet the deadline. The task is due by 4pm on the due date. Ensure you make this deadline (even if absent) to
achieve your Classcraft XP and avoid a zero score.

To submit:
submit your poem to Showbie as a PDF.

Australian Curriculum Year 9 English Descriptions & Achievement Standards
YEAR 9 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARD
A FEATURES
GRADE
Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)
* Poem is engaging, evocative and well-written.
Understand how to use a variety of language
* The poem is descriptive and uses more than 2 poetic

features to create different levels of meaning
techniques at a sophisticated level.
In creating texts, students demonstrate how
* Poem is detailed and highly engaging.
manipulating language features, images and
* Ideas flow well and capture the readers attention.

sound can create innovative texts.
* Images relate well to the poem.
Edit for effect, selecting vocabulary and
* The poem has been carefully edited for spelling, capital
grammar that contribute to the precision and
letters and punctuation.

persuasiveness of texts. Using accurate spelling
* Purposeful and sophisticated vocabulary used.
and punctuation.
Comments:

Three things I will remember to do in my next task of this type:

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Overall
grade: