Stage 1 English Literature
In Creative Arts, students actively participate in the development and presentation of creative arts products.
Stage 1 – English Literature Year 11
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SACE Credits
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10 per semester
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Does this subject include an exam?
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No
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Prerequisite(s)
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Successful completion of Year 10 English at a minimum B grade achievement level.
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Course Content
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Students will undertake learning and assessment in the following areas:
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Responding to Texts
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The Importance of Being Earnest (play) – Oscar Wilde
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Poetry – Student Negotiated
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The Road (novel) – Cormac McCarthy
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Macbeth (play) – William Shakespeare
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Creating Texts
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Narrative
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Spoken Word
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Intertextual Study
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About a Boy (novel) – Nick Hornby
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About a Boy (film) – Chris and Paul Wiez
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Student Negotiated texts
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Learning Requirements
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In this subject, students are expected to:
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analyse relationships between purpose, audience, and context, and how these influence texts and their meaning
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identify ways in which ideas and perspectives are represented in texts
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analyse how language and stylistic features and conventions are used to convey ideas and perspectives in texts
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create oral, written, and/or multimodal texts for particular purposes, audiences, and contexts
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identify and analyse intertextual connections
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apply knowledge and understanding of accurate spelling, punctuation, syntax, and conventions
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Pathways
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Stage 2 English Literary Studies; Admission to any university course, especially language rich subjects and English majors at tertiary level and for TAFE studies.
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