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GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE
LL3 Internal Assessment
LL3 Analysing and Producing Performance Texts Updated March 2010
We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LL3 internal assessment unit. This document has been updated and replaces previously published LL3 unit Guidance. It has been compiled from material previously published in the Teacher Guide, material distributed at INSET and from examples of students’ work. Notable additions to this guide are: • •
•
Candidate 2 trialled response for LL3A (pages 10-13) Principal Moderator comments on Candidate 2’s response (page 14) Guidance on low, mid and high band marks in the section assessment grids (pages 5 and 20)
Key Information
The focus of this coursework unit is on texts produced for performance. It encourages the development of extended formal essay-writing skills, independent research and creative writing linked to performance. Requirements: Candidates are required to produce a folder of work divided into two sections. For Section A they will study two dramatic texts, one of which must be Shakespeare, and for Section B they will write two original performance texts and evaluate one of them. The folder of work for this unit, as for LL2, should be approximately 3000 words.
Reminder!
Centres must nominate for approval both texts to be studied for LL3 Section A: Dramatic texts in context: • • one play by Shakespeare selected for detailed study; one play/performance text by another dramatist/writer.
The texts must be nominated to WJEC by the end of December 2009 by emailing this nomination form LL3 Nomination of texts for approval 2010.doc by attachment to LL3nominatedtexts@wjec.co.uk
Section A: Dramatic texts in context - 40 marks
Relevant assessment objectives: AO1, AO2, AO3 1500 words approximately The Shakespeare text selected should be the focus of students’ detailed study, as this
LL3 Internal Assessment
LL3 Analysing and Producing Performance Texts Updated March 2010
We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LL3 internal assessment unit. This document has been updated and replaces previously published LL3 unit Guidance. It has been compiled from material previously published in the Teacher Guide, material distributed at INSET and from examples of students’ work. Notable additions to this guide are: • •
•
Candidate 2 trialled response for LL3A (pages 10-13) Principal Moderator comments on Candidate 2’s response (page 14) Guidance on low, mid and high band marks in the section assessment grids (pages 5 and 20)
Key Information
The focus of this coursework unit is on texts produced for performance. It encourages the development of extended formal essay-writing skills, independent research and creative writing linked to performance. Requirements: Candidates are required to produce a folder of work divided into two sections. For Section A they will study two dramatic texts, one of which must be Shakespeare, and for Section B they will write two original performance texts and evaluate one of them. The folder of work for this unit, as for LL2, should be approximately 3000 words.
Reminder!
Centres must nominate for approval both texts to be studied for LL3 Section A: Dramatic texts in context: • • one play by Shakespeare selected for detailed study; one play/performance text by another dramatist/writer.
The texts must be nominated to WJEC by the end of December 2009 by emailing this nomination form LL3 Nomination of texts for approval 2010.doc by attachment to LL3nominatedtexts@wjec.co.uk
Section A: Dramatic texts in context - 40 marks
Relevant assessment objectives: AO1, AO2, AO3 1500 words approximately The Shakespeare text selected should be the focus of students’ detailed study, as this