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| Subject Name: | English |
| Level of Study: | Stage 2 |
| Length of Course: | Year |
| Prerequisite: | A Stage 1 English course (excluding English as an Additional Language) |
Pre-requisites
What will be in the course?
In English, students analyse the interrelationship 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 ideas and perspectives. An understanding of purpose, audience, and context is applied in students’ own creation of imaginative, interpretive, analytical, and persuasive texts that may be written, oral, and/or multimodal.
Students 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.
How will I be assessed?
Students should provide evidence of their learning through seven assessments, including the external assessment component. The following assessment types enable students to demonstrate their learning in Stage 2 English:
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%)