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Practice SAC marking scale

These are a mark range out of 10 that I will use when I look at your Practice SACs. They are a scale that examiners use when they look at your exams at the end of the year. Basically, a break down of the performance descriptors.

Expected Qualities for Text Response Mark Range

VCE ENGLISH - UNIT 3 - OUTCOME 1 - PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTORS

It is always important to consider the criteria that your assessors will use to determine your outcome. The above are the performance descriptors that will be used to categorise your essays into high, medium and low level responses. Get to know what is required for a high level response and aim to provide it in your SAC and exam responses. Click on the link to find the page are on at the VCAA website.

Dear America Perform Descriptors

Quotes for quotes posters

'Each letter in this volume represents a human life,' (p. 12), Senator John McCain.

'My parents, like everyone with a child or a husband or a father in Vietnam, were hostages to the war,' (p.14), William Broyles Jr.

'Some things don't erode with the passage of time,' (p.15), William Broyles Jr.

'Well, in 360 days, I'll be home,' (p.38), 1Lt. Robert Salerni.

'I killed my first gooks last night - about 20 of them,' ((p.46), Lt. Desmond Barry, Jr.

'I think I'd be much happier helping people than fighting the gooks,' (p.63), Lance Corporal Cameron MacDonald.

'Last might I killed and everyone has been patting me on the back,' (pp. 94-5), 1Lt. James Simmen.

'I was thinking that I have never written to anyone about how much I like this country,' (p. 108), Sergeant Tom Fitzharris.

'We speak different languages, but we're all the same kind of people,' (p. 113), Chief warrant officer Bruce McInnes.

'This is an unusual time in our nation's history,' (p. 137), Captain Rodney R. Chastant.