Year: 12 (Stage 2) – Elective
Length: Full Year (20 SACE Credits)
Contact Person: Karen Slattery
Recommended Background: Successful completion of Stage 1 English Literary Studies or English, with a B/A Grade average, and upon teacher recommendation.
Content: 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.
In this subject, students are expected to:
- Understand the relationship between author, text, and context.
- Analyse how ideas, perspectives, and values are represented in texts and how they are received by audiences.
- Analyse and compare texts, through the identification of the structural, conventional, and language and stylistic features used by authors.
- Use evidence to develop, support, and justify a critical interpretation of a text.
- Develop analytical responses to texts by considering other interpretations.
- Create oral, written, and/ or multimodal texts that experiment with stylistic features by using and adapting literary conventions.
- Express ideas in a range of modes to create texts that engage the reader, viewer, or listener.
Assessment: Students are assessed using the SACE Performance Standards. Students demonstrate evidence of their learning through the following assessment types:
- Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts
- Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts
- Assessment Type 3: External Assessment
- (a) Comparative Text Study.
- (b) Critical Reading Examination.
Additional Charges: A consumables / excursion fee may apply to this subject in addition to the Clare High School Materials Service Charges.