Senior English
All students must study either English or English Communication in Years 11 and 12.
A course in senior English aims to develop students’:
- Knowledge of the relationship between language and culture
- Awareness of the flexibility diversity and dynamism of language
- Understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the language and its uses in texts
- Creative and critical engagement with texts, to explore the students’ worlds beyond their own
- Ability to use language appropriately, effectively, purposefully, aesthetically and critically to participate in communities and cultures, as well as to think, write and speak about texts
PREREQUISITE SUBJECT
Students who wish to study Senior English should have achieved at least a “C” in Junior English.
ASSESSMENT
As a general guide, students undertake two written assessment tasks and one spoken assessment task each semester. Throughout the two-year course, tasks will be completed under different conditions. This will include tasks completed over a period of time with access to resources; tasks completed under supervised conditions; questions may be seen or unseen. Tasks must include student documentation of the writing process, including all resources used.
Tasks will be assessed against three criteria:
- demonstrated knowledge of texts in their context
- demonstrated knowledge and control of textual features
- demonstrated knowledge and application of the connectedness of texts
The final level of achievement for each student will be determined by “matching the folio (of seven assessment tasks) against the syllabus standards associated with exit criteria to determine the level of achievement that best describes the pattern of performance in the folio as a whole” (English syllabus, p. 26.).
Queensland Certificate of Education - 4 points
