Essential English - Stage 2

Mandatory: No

Duration: Full year

Description

In this subject students respond to and create texts in and for a range of personal, social, cultural, community, and/or workplace contexts.

The course is split into three sections:

• Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (30%)

Students complete three assessments in this section of the course. The teacher will choose a range of texts that instruct, engage, challenge, inform, and connect readers. Students will consider information, ideas, and perspectives represented in the chosen texts. Texts studied may be Films, Novels, Short Articles or relevant texts. At least one of the responses must be in oral or multimodal form.

• Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (40%)

Students complete three assessments in this section. Students create:

• one Advocacy text
• two additional texts (e.g. narrative, informative, procedural)
• At least one of the responses must be in written form, and at least one in oral or multimodal form
  
  
• Assessment Type 3: Language Study (30%)

For this assessment type, students complete an independent language study. The focus of study is an understanding of the use of spoken, non- verbal, visual, and/or written language by people in a chosen context beyond the classroom. This assessment section is externally marked.