Year 9 e1 and e2: Assignment 2

Assignment 2: imaginative, descriptive and/or narrative

 

The best assignments are usually those that come from a shared learning experience but are finally chosen by individual candidates; negotiation of assignments with the teacher is recommended (bearing in mind that these should be sufficiently challenging to stretch candidates to their full potential). For example, a class might study types of short story and their structures.

 

Candidates are encouraged to revise, edit and correct their work and may discuss the process with their teachers. However, teachers are reminded that their advice must not constitute correction and that candidates must be responsible for specific corrections of spelling, punctuation and grammar.

 

Length of assignments

• The component description suggests ‘between 500 and 800 words’ for each assignment. This is a sufficient length to attract the highest marks. Work that is significantly under- or over -length is likely to be self-penalising.

 

Use of word processors

• Each assignment may be either hand-written or word-processed. Electronic dictionaries and/or spell-checkers may be used.

• Candidates should be reminded of the importance of careful proofreading of all their work. Typing errors, or the use of a wrong choice from a computer spell-check or thesaurus, must be counted as errors, and shown as such.

 

 

Your task is to write a short piece of description based on the events of H.G. Wells' novel 'War of the Worlds'. Your piece must be between 500-800 words. Candidates that either fall short of the required minimal length, or exceed the length, will be penalised.

 

You are attempting to write with the flair and style of Wells, in the genre of Science-fiction.

 

You can either choose from the following suggestions or negotiate an idea with me:

 

 

1. The Attack of the Heat-Ray, witnessed by a journalist
2. A Survivor's Account: Living in Fear
3. The Wasteland
4. Death of the Martians