LEVEL: Stage 2
SACE Credits: 20 credits
LENGTH: Full Year
Recommended background: Successful completion of Stage 1 English or Stage 1 English Literary Studies
Content:
In English students analyse the inter-relationship of author, text and audience, with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features 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 idea 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 undertake:
- Responding to texts of three different categories such as novel, film, drama, poetry and media
- Creating texts where they produce three texts for a variety of purposes and/or audiences and a Writer’s Statement where they explain and justify the creative decisions made in producing one or more texts
- Comparative Analysis of two independently chosen texts.
The Comparative Analysis is marked externally and the school based assessment is subject to external moderation at the end of the year.
Assessment:
Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.
School based assessment 70%
Responding to Texts 30%
Three responses, two written (maximum of 1000 words each) and one oral (maximum of 6 minutes). Either the oral or one of the written tasks can be replaced by a multimodal text of equivalent length.
Creating Texts 40%
Three texts and a Writer’s Statement. At least one text must be written (1000 words maximum or 6 minute oral). The Writer’s Statement can be written (1000 words) or oral/multimodal presentation of equivalent length.
External Assessment 30%
Comparative Analysis – A written extended comparative analysis of two independently chosen texts (2000 words maximum).