GENERAL COURSE REQUIREMENTS An analytical essay on ‘The The satisfactory completion of Units 1 happiest Refugee’ by Anh Do. The SAC will be worth 20% of & 2 English is based on the student demonstrating the Unit 1 coursework mark. the achievement of a set of outcomes for each area This SAC will be completed in of study as specified by VCAA in the English Study a double period under test Design. The three areas of study are Reading and conditions. Students may Responding, Creating and Presenting and Using bring a dictionary. Language to Persuade. Approximate length: 600-800 To meet the outcomes students must words. satisfactorily complete a range of School Assessed Coursework (SAC) tasks. If a student completes all AREA OF STUDY 2: SAC tasks satisfactorily they will be awarded an “S” CREATING AND PRESENTING for the unit. If a student does not complete a SAC task satisfactorily they will be awarded an “N” for Outcome 2: On completion of this unit the student the unit. should be able to create and present texts taking SAC tasks must be completed in class account of audience, purpose and context. within a limited timeframe under the conditions specified. Students explore the ways in which Justice is Students will receive an assessment presented in print and non-print texts. A film, grade for each SAC task. The assessment grades selected by the classroom teacher, will be the main contribute to an overall score for the subject. focus of study. Students draw on this exploration to If a student misses a SAC task date due create and present their own writing for a specific to an approved absence (eg. with a doctor’s audience, purpose and context. certificate), the student and teacher will then negotiate a new date as outlined in Ballarat High CREATING AND PRESENTING ASSESSMENT School’s Later Years Policy. (SAC): A sustained written response In this SAC students create a sustained piece of If a student misses a SAC task date writing drawing on the ideas and arguments with no approved reason the student and teacher generated by the study of “Justice” in response to a will then negotiate a new date as outlined in set prompt. Students can write in an expository, Ballarat High School’s Later Years Policy but the persuasive or imaginative style for a specified assessment task will be given only an S/N not a purpose and audience. grade. At the end of each semester students The SAC will be worth 20% of the Unit 1 will sit an English exam. These exams contribute coursework mark. This SAC will be completed in a to an overall score for the subject. double period under test conditions. Students may bring a dictionary. Approximate length: 600-800 words.
AREA OF STUDY 3: AREA OF STUDY 1: USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE READING AND RESPONDING Outcome 1: On completion of this unit the student Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the student should be able to identify and discuss key aspects should be able to identify and discuss, either in of a set text, and to construct a response in written writing and/or orally, how language can be used to form. persuade readers and/or viewers.
READING AND RESPONDING ASSESSMENT (SAC): Text response essay Students read and view a range of visual texts such create and present their own writing for a specific as cartoons, political cartoons, illustrations, graphs audience, purpose and context. and signs which are designed to persuade readers and viewers to share a particular point of view. CREATING AND PRESENTING ASSESSMENT (SAC): A sustained written response In this SAC students create a sustained piece of USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE ASSESSMENT writing of 800-1000 words in length drawing on (SAC): Oral presentation the ideas and arguments generated by the study of Students must present a 5 minute oral “Future Worlds” and the film “Gattaca” in response presentation, on the date specified by their teacher, to a set prompt. Students can write in an which analyses the ways in which visual language expository, persuasive or imaginative style for a is used to persuade. The SAC will be worth 20% of specified purpose and audience. the Unit 1 coursework mark. Notes for planning of presentation to be submitted at the time of the oral The SAC will be worth 20% of the Unit 2 presentation. coursework mark. This will de done in a double EXAM period under test conditions. Students will be given the prompt on the Friday prior to the SAC. Students will sit a 2 hour exam at the end of the Students can bring their 300 word written semester. This exam contributes 40% to the explanation and dictionary to class. subject score. AREA OF STUDY 3: They will complete an analytical essay in response USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE to ‘The Happiest Refugee’ by Anh Do and complete a sustained written response exploring a prompt in Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the relation to the context, “Justice”. student should be able to identify and analyse how language is used in a persuasive text and to present a reasoned point of view in an oral or a written form.
Students read a range of texts, published in the AREA OF STUDY 1: Australian media since September 1, 2010, which READING AND RESPONDING are designed to persuade readers and viewers to share a particular point of view. Outcome 1: On completion of this unit the student should be able to discuss and analyse how USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE ASSESSMENT texts convey ways of thinking about the characters, (SAC): Oral presentation and Language Analysis ideas and themes, and construct a response in oral or written form. Oral presentation: Students must present a 5 minute oral presentation, on the date specified by READING AND RESPONDING ASSESSMENT their teacher, which presents a sustained point of (SAC): Text response essay view on a current media issue. The SAC will be An analytical essay on “Macbeth” by William worth 20% of the Unit 2 coursework mark. Notes Shakespeare. The SAC will be worth 20% of the for planning of presentation to be submitted at the Unit 2 coursework mark. This SAC will be time of the oral presentation. completed in a double period under test conditions. Students may bring a dictionary. Language Analysis: Students must analyse the Approximate length: 600-800 words. ways in which visual and written language is used to position readers in 2-3 media texts as selected AREA OF STUDY 2: by Year 11 English teachers. The SAC will be worth CREATING AND PRESENTING 20% of the Unit 2 coursework mark. The SAC will be under test conditions and students will have 3 Outcome 2: On completion of this unit the periods to analyse the articles presented to them. student should be able to create and present texts taking account of audience, purpose and context. EXAM Students explore the ways in which the context Students will sit a 3 hour exam at the end of the “Future Worlds” is presented in print and non- semester. This exam contributes 40% to the print texts. The main text for study will be the film subject score. All three areas of study will be “Gattaca”. Students will draw on this exploration to examined. WIKI – HANDOUTS & COURSE MATERIAL
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