Year: 12 (Stage 2) – Elective
Length: Full Year (20 SACE Credits)
Contact Person: Karen Slattery
Recommended Background: Students must have successfully completed a Stage 1 English course.
Content: Students will undertake three aspects within this course:
- Responding to Texts
- Creating Texts
- Language Study
In this subject, students are expected to:
- Extend communication skills through reading, viewing, writing, listening, and speaking
- Consider and respond to information, ideas, and perspectives in texts selected from social, cultural, community, workplace, and/or imaginative contexts
- Examine the effect of language choices, conventions, and stylistic features in a range of texts for different audiences
- Analyse the role of language in supporting effective communication
- Create oral, written, and multimodal texts that communicate information, ideas, and perspectives for a range of purposes
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