Wyndham College

Year 11 English Standard

Assessment Task Notification

Task name: The Digital Realm Task no: 2

Unit: Module A: Contemporary Possibilities Marks: 20
Task type: Multimodal composition Weighting: 40%
Submission: Duration: N/A
Year 11 English Standard Assessment Hub
Google Classroom code: p4gzeaj
Equipment needed: Computer Due date: 24 June 2024 (Term 2 Week 9) by 3:00
p.m.
Students will be assessed on their ability to:
● express their understanding of the topic using the appropriate structure, style and language.

● compose a multimodal response for a particular purpose, context and audience

Outcomes:
● EN11-1 responds to and composes increasingly complex texts for understanding, interpretation,
analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure
● EN11-2 uses and evaluates processes, skills and knowledge required to effectively respond to and
compose texts in different modes, media and technologies
● EN11-3 analyses and uses language forms, features and structures of texts, considers appropriateness
for purpose, audience and context and explains effects on meaning
● EN11-7 understands and explains the diverse ways texts can represent personal and public worlds.

Task Description:
Students are to develop a multimodal digital composition that includes an embedded speaking element in
response to ONE of the following questions:

“People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more
information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

How does this idea align with your study of the prescribed text and ONE text of your own choice? In your
response you must refer to TWO concepts covered in class.

OR

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, a code, a number, easily torn and not easily mended.”
Ian McEwan
How does this idea align with your study of the prescribed text and ONE text of your own choice with
reference to your digital footprint and relationship with communication technology?

Choose any 2 concepts to include in your response from the list below:
● ethical use of technology political ramifications
 ● representations of the self freedom of expression
● privacy/anonymity vs security media/news (reliability and influence)
Instructions:

● The published, written component is to be 700-750 words in length is to be submitted to the

Google Classroom Assessment Hub at the time of your final submission.
● The speaking component is to be a 3-5-minute audio-visual recording of YOU speaking.

● Your digital composition should also include relevant materials from your prescribed text and
related text (video clips, still images, extracts from articles or other relevant sources).
● You are responsible for ensuring that all links, text, images, and videos work prior to your
submission.
● You are to use any appropriate platform that can be uploaded to Google Classroom to construct
your task.

Prescribed Texts

Class Teacher Prescribed Text Class Teacher Prescribed Text

11ENS1 Angela Searching 11ENS4 Toyer Weapons of Mass

2018 Surveillance
Director: Aneesh 2017
Chaganty Director: Elizabeth
C.Jones

11ENS2 Toyer Weapons of Mass 11ENS5 Nitha The Social

Surveillance Dilemma
2017 2018
Director: Elizabeth Director: Jeff
C.Jones Orlowski

11ENS3 Nitha The Social 11ENS6 Tim Weapons of Mass

Dilemma Surveillance
2018 2017
Director: Jeff Orlowski Director: Elizabeth
C.Jones

Assessment Rules & Procedures

● In completing this task, you acknowledge that the planning, development, content and presentation of this assessment is
your own work, except for the limited material, if any, drawn from acknowledged sources. No part of this assessment has
been written for you by any other person, Artificial Intelligence or copied from the internet.
● You may receive a zero if your response is deemed ‘a non-serious’ attempt or if it is plagiarised.

Absent on the day

● You must present a medical certificate or other credible evidence to the Course Co-Ordinator on the first day you return to
school explaining your absence for every day that you were absent. A note from your parent/guardian is not sufficient. You
will then need to complete a blue Illness and Misadventure Form. You must make arrangements with the Head Teacher
to complete the task on your first day back at school, whether or not you have that course on that day.
 Marking Criteria

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
EN11-1 designs an designs an designs a sound designs a designs a digital
engaging effective multimodal digital multimodal digital text that explores
multimodal digital multimodal digital composition that text that attempts the chosen
composition that composition that satisfactorily to explore the question and
thoughtfully effectively explores the chosen question concepts in a
explores the explores the chosen question and concepts limited way
chosen question chosen question and concepts
and concepts and concepts

EN11-2 uses a developed uses a developed uses a range of uses language uses language
range of range of language language forms, forms, features and forms, features,
appropriate forms, features, features, and structures that and structures in a
language forms, and structures structures attempt to engage limited way to
features, and accurately to satisfactorily to an audience with communicate
structures skilfully engage an engage an the ideas in the ideas
to engage an audience with the audience with the texts
audience with the ideas in the texts ideas in the texts
ideas in the text

EN11-3 uses and analyses uses and analyses uses and uses some limited use of
a range of a range of attempts to language forms appropriate
language forms language forms analyse language and features in language to
and features in and features in forms and their chosen form engage the
their chosen form their chosen form features in their audience
creatively and with a clear sense chosen form
thoughtfully of purpose and appropriate to
audience purpose and
audience
EN11-7 uses variation in uses variation in uses variation in express their ideas Little attention paid
tone and pace to tone, and pace tone and pace to with little regard to to verbalising their
skilfully express effectively to express their variation in tone ideas
their ideas and express their ideas and pace
engage the ideas and engage
audience the audience
Grade A B C D E
Extensive Thorough Sound Basic Elementary
knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and
understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding in
the content and the content and a the main areas of the content and few areas of the
can readily apply high level of content and has has achieved a content and has
this knowledge. A competence in achieved an limited level of achieved very
very high level of the processes adequate level of competence in limited
competence in and skills. Able to competence in the processes competence in
the processes apply this the processes and skills. some of the
and skills and knowledge and and skills. processes and
can apply these these skills to skills.
skills to new most situations.
situations.
Mark
20 16 12 8 4

19 15 11 7 3

18 14 10 6 2

17 13 9 5 1