Length: Full Year

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 11 English

Content:

In Stage 2 English, students analyse the interrelationships of author, text, and audience, with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts.

Students engage with a variety of texts and write a form of analytical response on their use of structure, conventions and techniques. In the past students use have viewed films, read novels and listened to performance poetry. Students also write and create a range of creative texts types for different purposes.

Students will undertake:

• Respond to three different texts, which may include films, novels, poetry or a series of short texts. Some of the previous text choices include American Sniper, The Light Between Oceans, Geoff Goodfellow
• Create three texts for a variety of purposes (entertain, inform, persuade) plus a writers statement which explains your creative choices for one of these texts
• A comparative analysis between two independently selected texts. Texts chosen could be prose, poetry, film, film trailers, media texts, picture books, song lyrics or episodes from a TV show

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards as outlined in the Subject Outline. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.

School-based assessment (70%):

• Responding to texts (30%) Three responses, two written (maximum of 1,000 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 plus a writer’s statement; at least one of the texts must be written (1,000 words or 6 minute oral); the writer’s statement (1,000 words) can be written or multimodal equivalent in length

External Assessment (30%):

• Comparative Analysis (30%) A study of two independently selected texts and a response up to 2,000 words