New relative to ordinary practice, not secure examinations. Teacher releases each source/task only at its intended sitting and keeps worked interpretations/rubric separate until the first response. Record actual first response, source access, support/mode and any prior exposure; unfinished responses can continue later. Original computer-assisted fiction, no actual people/event/reader outcome.
Fresh A · Day 35 · Last Train Table
A01 The timetable hung above the unused table, although the hall was not a station. Noor liked the joke: each folder had a destination written on it, and each finished model would leave the table for an evening display. Noor called the table Last Train. Rowan called it the place where unfinished things waited. They had agreed on neither title, but both had written theirs on a spare label.
A02 At the end of the afternoon, Noor began putting the labelled folders into a wide box. Rowan kept one folder on the table. Inside were three sketches of a bridge, each with a different middle span. 'We said finished models,' Noor said. Rowan opened the folder flat. 'These show the decision better than the finished one.' Noor looked towards the box. Its plain lid seemed to make an answer easy: things either went in or stayed out.
A03 They read the display note together. It asked for one item that showed a choice. It did not say the item must be complete. Noor put the box down. Rowan did not smile as if the sentence had won an argument. Instead, Rowan asked whether the three sketches could count as one item. The hall clock made a small dry sound. Noor wrote one question beneath the title and left room for an answer.
A04 Before they left, Noor lifted both labels from the table. On the back of Last Train, Noor wrote: A folder can travel before a model does. Rowan read it and kept the other label too. Nothing had reached the evening display. The table was still covered with pencil dust. But the box, now open, no longer seemed to be the only way out.
N01 · Companion display note: Display note: Please select one item that shows a choice made while developing a model. Add a short explanation of that choice. The note does not name a preferred item or say how the display will be arranged.
Open task: For an imagined/private literature discussion reader, defend a reading of what the table/box/labels come to mean. Use precise choices from at least two parts of the narrative and connect the display note. Consider a different plausible reading. About 250–350 words or equivalent agreed mode is a flexible guide, not a speed/minimum-word grade. One developed source-supported component may be kept now and extended later. No compulsory thesis, chosen item or resolved exhibition outcome.
Fresh B · Day 40 · The unopened case
B01 Ari placed the broad paper case on the desk with its plain side upwards. Inside was a drawing for an imagined exhibition. Jess had not seen it. 'If I show the bright part first, you might miss the quiet part,' Ari said. Jess looked at the plain cover. 'If you leave it closed, I cannot read either.'
B02 Ari had written a title on a separate strip, then turned the strip over. The drawing could be introduced as The Busy Window or The Place to Wait. Both titles came from marks on the same page. Jess asked which title Ari wanted. Ari moved the strip closer but did not turn it back. 'I want you to choose after you look.' Jess set a blank sheet beside the case. 'Then tell me where to begin, and leave room for my answer.'
B03 The case stayed closed at the end of the scene. The blank sheet was still blank. Ari had not agreed to reveal the drawing, and Jess had not given a response to it. Between them lay two possible titles and a beginning neither had used.
Open task: Use a perspective, image, value or structure in this new scene as a springboard for your own contrasting scene or completely described multimodal sequence. Choose your narrator/audience/purpose. You may retell, continue, challenge or shift time; no compulsory title, reveal, agreement or happy ending. Keep established source facts clear and name where your fiction begins. Add a short commentary explaining two purposeful textual/mode choices and their source anchors. About 250–400 words for the scene plus 80–150 for commentary, or an agreed equivalent, are flexible guides. One useful component can continue later. No previous student draft, trial, exhibition or viewer response is supplied.
Both tasks: keep the first response before teaching feedback. Ask for neutral exact access/support without a model answer. These tasks sample selected objectives, not whole Unit 1 attainment, independent decoding from heard text, IA/QCE/A–E certification or mandatory performance.
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