Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects: English, English as an Additional Language or Essential English
Other Advice:
To succeed in this course, students need to be keen readers with strong analytical and literacy skills.
Course Outline:
Stage 2 English Literary Studies will be taught for the first time in 2017. English Literary Studies is a 20-credit subject at Stage 2. Stage 2 English Literary Studies focuses on the skills and strategies of critical thinking needed to interpret texts. Through shared and individual study of texts, students encounter different opinions about texts, have opportunities to exchange and develop ideas, find evidence to support a personal view, learn to construct logical and convincing arguments, and consider a range of critical interpretations of texts. English Literary Studies focuses on ways in which literary texts represent culture and identity, and on the dynamic relationship between authors, texts, audiences, and contexts. Students develop an understanding of the power of language to represent ideas, events, and people in particular ways and of how texts challenge or support cultural perceptions. Students who complete this subject with a C– grade or better will meet the literacy requirement of the SACE.
Topics Covered:
English Literary Studies involves the study of literature and language. In general students will read, discuss and write about a range of novels, plays, films and poems. Students will regularly engage in close critical reading exercises. The course includes both centrally moderated and externally marked components, including an externally set and marked 90 minute examination. In particular students will do:
Shared Study of:
three texts
– one extended prose text
– one film text
– one drama text
poetry
a range of short texts.
The shared studies include the work of at least one Australian author. (The author may be a poet, playwright, prose writer, or film director).
Comparative Text Study
This study involves the comparative study of two texts: one from the shared studies and the other independently chosen by the student.
Assessment: School Assessment (70%)
** Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (50%)
Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (20%)
External Assessment (30%)
Assessment Type 3: Text Study:
– Part A: Comparative Text Study (15%)
– Part B: Critical Reading - Examination(15%)
Students provide evidence of their learning through up to nine assessments, including the external assessment component. Students complete:
up to five responses to texts
two created texts
two tasks for the text study (one comparative text study and one critical reading).
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 S - Pre English Literary Studies (S2)
Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects:
English, English as an Additional Language or Essential English
Other Advice:
To succeed in this course, students need to be keen readers with strong analytical and literacy skills.
Course Outline:
Stage 2 English Literary Studies will be taught for the first time in 2017. English Literary Studies is a 20-credit subject at Stage 2. Stage 2 English Literary Studies focuses on the skills and strategies of critical thinking needed to interpret texts. Through shared and individual study of texts, students encounter different opinions about texts, have opportunities to exchange and develop ideas, find evidence to support a personal view, learn to construct logical and convincing arguments, and consider a range of critical interpretations of texts. English Literary Studies focuses on ways in which literary texts represent culture and identity, and on the dynamic relationship between authors, texts, audiences, and contexts. Students develop an understanding of the power of language to represent ideas, events, and people in particular ways and of how texts challenge or support cultural perceptions. Students who complete this subject with a C– grade or better will meet the literacy requirement of the SACE.
Topics Covered:
English Literary Studies involves the study of literature and language. In general students will read, discuss and write about a range of novels, plays, films and poems. Students will regularly engage in close critical reading exercises. The course includes both centrally moderated and externally marked components, including an externally set and marked 90 minute examination. In particular students will do:
Shared Study of:
- three texts
– one extended prose text– one film text
– one drama text
- poetry
- a range of short texts.
The shared studies include the work of at least one Australian author. (The author may be a poet, playwright, prose writer, or film director).Comparative Text Study
This study involves the comparative study of two texts: one from the shared studies and the other independently chosen by the student.
Assessment:
School Assessment (70%)
- Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (20%)
- External Assessment (30%)
- Assessment Type 3: Text Study:
– Part A: Comparative Text Study (15%)– Part B: Critical Reading - Examination(15%)
Students provide evidence of their learning through up to nine assessments, including the external assessment component. Students complete:
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