Differences between u3 and u4?

[saheh]

hey all

So considering there's only two sacs in unit 4, each worth 50, how do they differ from unit 3? what more do they expect in your writing? 

Thanks

[charmanderp]

Very good question! I've been wondering the same thing myself! I'd expect that unless we were given a longer time to write the SAC that the standard required would be exactly the same. They could essentially mark everyone's SACs out of 30 like Unit 3 and then just scale them to a score out of 50.

[saheh]

yeah that would make sense, so they could bump the unit scores to out of 100
Thanks!

[nisha]

Entirely depends on the school, your new texts studying and their views in mind.
In Unit 3 at my school, our context sac meant we had to write two pieces by using elements from a book text, while in Unit 4 context means we have to write a single piece (in the same amount of time) aimed at discussing the key themes of the movie text.

[saheh]

Ahhk makes sense
I think ours is just another single response.. however we can write in whatever style we choose

[charmanderp]

AFAIK the format for ours is identical across both units, only the texts are different,

[Yendall]

Unit 4 will be marked out of 100, like Unit 3 was. Both sacs will be marked out of 30 and then scaled to a mark out of 50.

I think the Unit 4 context piece will be a little more difficult than the context sac in Unit 3, mainly because you have to write such a large amount without diverging from your main ideas. In Unit 3 I had to write three context pieces, which was easier because flexibility was large (Expository piece and two Imaginative pieces). I think one massive piece will be quite difficult to top score in. However saying that, if you have an extensive knowledge of the text, you should have enough ideas to meet the required word limit whilst getting your point across to the marker.

I seemed to have forgotten the boundaries of a text response haha. I'm writing drafts for U401 and my ideas are way to broad. I will need to find a way to contain my ideas into relative textual evidence, rather than a philosophical stance on the concept of chance. I think that because most of Unit 3 (well for me anyway) was based around Expository, Creative and LangAn, text-responses have been in the back of most of my cohorts heads. But i'm sure in the next week I can get my head back around it all. It's starting to kick back in after I wrote another essay tonight.

Best of luck for U4!