Description 2.5.2 Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2): Extended response — complex transformation and defence (20%)
Students select a literary text suited to the demands of the assessment instrument (and different from the text selected for internal assessment 1).
They select and apply aspects and strategies from text-centred and world-context-centred theoretical approaches to intervene in this selected base text, or part of the text, to create a complex transformation. In a complex transformation, the rewritten text invites alternative and/or resistant readings other than those the base text seems to invite. Alternative and resistant readings require students to move beyond merely inverting the base text’s ideologies. Transformations must relate to repositioning the reader in a purposeful way and must be theoretically defensible. In the defence of the complex transformation, students:
identify the key assumptions and values underpinning the base text, which are challenged in the complex transformation
analyse, with specific examples, how relevant textual features and language details of the base text support/construct these assumptions and values, and position audiences
identify relevant aspects of the base text that allow opportunities for intervention apply specific aspects of text-centred and world-context-centred theoretical approaches to the base text, or parts of the text, to identify particular assumptions and values and how they position audiences, in order to identify possibilities for alternative readings that could be explored in the complex transformation
apply specific aspects of text-centred and world-context-centred theoretical approaches to produce a complex transformation that offers audiences alternative, theoretically defensible reading position/s to that offered in the base text
explain how the application of aspects of text-centred and world-context-centred theoretical approaches can be used to rewrite texts to generate alternative readings of those texts
analyse, with specific examples, how relevant textual features and language details of the complex transformation offer audiences alternative, theoretically defensible reading position/s to that offered in the base text
evaluate how effectively the transformed text offers audiences alternative reading position/s.
English & Literature Extension General Senior Syllabus 2017 © The State of Queensland (Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority) 2017 p 24