UNIT 1 AREA OF STUDY 1 -Reading and Creating Texts TEXTS USED
-Ugly by Robert Hoge (Creating Texts) -The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Reading Texts)
OUTCOME 1:
(a) Students develop creative responses to texts, explore how purpose and audience affect the choices they make as writers in developing ideas and planning work, and make choices about structure, conventions, and language to develop voice and style. (b) Students develop an analytical response dealing with the ways in which a text conveys meaning and various points of view on key concerns. They include textual evidence to support their interpretation.
ASSESSMENT:
SAC 1a - Creative Response SAC (Written Essay) SAC 1b - Text Response SAC (Written Essay)
30 marks 30 marks
AREA OF STUDY 2 -Analysing and Presenting Argument TEXTS USED
-News/Media Resources & Persuasive Texts
OUTCOME 2:
(a) Students analyse the presentation of argument and the use of language to position the intended audience, in two persuasive texts. (b) Students craft and present reasoned, structured and supported arguments and experiment with the use of spoken language to position audiences. Their speech is accompanied by a written statement of intention, articulating the decisions made in the planning process, and how these demonstrate understanding of argument and persuasive language.
ASSESSMENT:
SAC 2a - Analysis & Comparison SAC (Written Essay) SAC 2b - Presenting Argument SAC (Oral Presentation)
20 marks 15 marks
UNIT 2 AREA OF STUDY 1 -Reading and Comparing Texts TEXTS USED
-Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose -The Crucible, Arthur Miller
OUTCOME 1:
Students compare the presentation of ideas, issues and themes in two texts, discussing important similarities and differences, and exploring how the texts deal with similar or related ideas, issues or themes from different perspectives.
ASSESSMENT:
SAC 3 – Comparative Response SAC (Written Essay)
50 marks
AREA OF STUDY 2 -Analysing and Presenting Argument TEXTS USED
-News/Media Resources
OUTCOME 2:
Student create a text which presents a point of view, and identify and analyse how argument and persuasive language are used in text/s that attempt to influence an audience.
ASSESSMENT:
SAC 4 – Point of View SAC (Written Essay)
20 marks 1