Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects: English Literary Studies, Essential English and English as an Additional Language
Other Advice:
To succeed at this course, students need strong literacy skills and must be prepared to complete drafts of written work.
Course Outline:
Stage 2 English will be taught for the first time in 2017.
In English students analyse the interrelationship of author, text, and audience, with an emphasis on how language, stylistic features and conventions shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts. They consider social, cultural, economic, historical, and/or political perspectives in texts and their representation of human experience and the world.
Students explore how the purpose of a text is achieved through application of text conventions and stylistic choices to position the audience to respond to ideas and perspectives. They have opportunities to reflect on their personal values and those of other people by responding to aesthetic and cultural aspects of texts from the contemporary world, from the past, and from Australian and other cultures.
Students who complete this subject with a C– grade or better will meet the literacy requirement of the SACE.
Topics Covered: English is concerned primarily with the relationship between audience, form and purpose in a range of communication modes and contexts. It includes some close reading of literature. The course includes both centrally moderated and externally marked components.
Students will provide evidence of their learning through eight assessments, including the external assessment component.
Students complete:
• three responses to texts
• four created texts (one of which is a writer’s statement)
• one comparative analysis.
Assessment:
School Assessment (70%)
• Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (30%)
• Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (40%) External Assessment (30%)
• Assessment Type 3: Comparative Analysis (30%).
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS Status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 English A (S1) and Stage 1 English C - Pre English Literary Studies (S2) or Stage 1 English D (S2)
Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects:
English Literary Studies, Essential English and English as an Additional Language
Other Advice:
To succeed at this course, students need strong literacy skills and must be prepared to complete drafts of written work.
Course Outline:
Stage 2 English will be taught for the first time in 2017.
In English students analyse the interrelationship of author, text, and audience, with an emphasis on how language, stylistic features and conventions shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts. They consider social, cultural, economic, historical, and/or political perspectives in texts and their representation of human experience and the world.
Students explore how the purpose of a text is achieved through application of text conventions and stylistic choices to position the audience to respond to ideas and perspectives. They have opportunities to reflect on their personal values and those of other people by responding to aesthetic and cultural aspects of texts from the contemporary world, from the past, and from Australian and other cultures.
Students who complete this subject with a C– grade or better will meet the literacy requirement of the SACE.
Topics Covered:
English is concerned primarily with the relationship between audience, form and purpose in a range of communication modes and contexts. It includes some close reading of literature. The course includes both centrally moderated and externally marked components.
Students will provide evidence of their learning through eight assessments, including the external assessment component.
Students complete:
• three responses to texts
• four created texts (one of which is a writer’s statement)
• one comparative analysis.
Assessment:
School Assessment (70%)
• Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (30%)
• Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (40%)
External Assessment (30%)
• Assessment Type 3: Comparative Analysis (30%).
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