Work sample Year 8 English: Creative responses to a poem

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 8 English. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of student work and may contain errors such as spelling mistakes and other inaccuracies. In this work sample students: • explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts • explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features • create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence • select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas • select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.