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Year 10 Monsters and Magic

To round out this year’s English work, we were tasked with creating an ad to sell the unsellable. It was a nice change of pace from the other work we’ve done in English this year and a chance to express our creativity through a different medium. As a group, we all made sure we were working to each other’s unique strengths and abilities. As the editor, I was responsible for tying everything together and squeezing as much as possible into just 90 seconds, a requirement much harder to achieve than it first seemed. Creating our own ad and seeing the hilarious creations of my peers made the Nossal Transfer one of my highlights of Year 10 English.

James Ross

I thought that the Nossal Transfer task was a really fun and unique experience which involved getting into groups of four within our class and creating an advertisement for an obscure product. When my teacher first explained the process in class, I was looking forward to doing it because it was so different to the types of things we usually do in school. It involved drawing, costumes, filming, editing and creative writing, along with researching interesting topics and collaborating with people, making it a well-rounded and educational way to learn about persuasive techniques in different forms of media. Overall, it was a fun way to wrap up the year!

Alicia Gupta

The Nossal Transfer Experience was one of the most interactive and exciting english assessment tasks we had this year. My group and I did our project of selling an unsellable product on selling a bachelor retirement home to reduce isolation. We did this through filming a short advertisement of 90 seconds where we persuaded our audience of retired old single men. We persuaded them through using cheap prices in comparison to our market, listing out our many facilities and our most convincing feature was our trusted endorsers of our product. This assessment overall was fun to film and even more fun to watch as a class. It was a great chance to put the persuasive skills we had seen demonstrated in texts to use.

Alma Johny