ENGLISH Essential Skills: Reading and Writing 2 This course is designed for learners who require a structured and tightly focused course to develop their literacy skills to the standard expected by the TCE requirement for everyday adult reading and writing. Available to students on recommendation by Lantern Program teachers.
What will I learn from this course? • develop reading and writing skills for everyday adult settings and situations • practise use of grammar and vocabulary necessary for the workplace • learn to listen constructively and speak to communicate in a variety of situations • read and write everyday texts • using reading strategies to find information in texts • writing a range of texts typical of everyday adult settings, including the workplace • speaking to communicate information, ideas and opinions.
Pathways 1.
the workplace
2.
everyday life.
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English Inquiry 2
English Foundations 2
English Inquiry Level 2 offers learners opportunities to enjoy language and be empowered as functional, purposeful, creative and critical language users who understand how transdisciplinary texts drawn from English and other disciplines can communicate and represent meaning.
This challenging and rewarding course has been designed for Year 11 learners preparing to study a Level 3 English course in Year 12.
This course is suited to learners who wish to consolidate and develop their knowledge, understanding and skills in English by creating, comprehending and responding to texts from a range of disciplines.
What will I learn from this course? • skills to communicate confidently and effectively in Standard Australian English • skills to choose structures, language and language features to convey meaning • skills to read and view for meaning, purpose, and to use, critique and appreciate a range of contemporary texts drawn from a range of discipline areas • effective use of language to ideate, design and produce texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Through close study and wide reading, viewing and listening, learners will develop understanding and skills associated with many types of texts and different language modes. The analysis and creation of interpretative, persuasive and imaginative texts will allow learners to understand how ideas and attitudes are presented in texts and how texts are constructed to influence a response. To do this course you need to have completed Year 10 Australian Curriculum English or Essential Skills: Reading and Writing 2.
What will I learn from this course? • how language is used for communication • how composers’ choices influence audience responses • how to critically analyse and reflect on texts of various types.
Pathways
• critical and imaginative thinking to explore their own world and the worlds of others
1.
English 3
2.
English Literature 3
3.
English Writing 3
4.
humanities subjects.
• active and critical interaction with transdisciplinary texts, and how language shapes meaning.
Pathways 1.
the workplace
2.
everyday life
3.
The English Inquiry Level 2 course enables learner continuity into other Level 3 English courses but is not a pathway into either English Literature Level 3 or English Writing Level 3.
ST MARY’S COLLEGE COURSE GUIDE 2024
