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ENGLISH
STAGE 2

EYRE PENINSULA SCHOOLS

ENGLISH

DELIVERY SCHOOL: TUMBY BAY AREA SCHOOL

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION FOR STAGE 2:

In Stage 2 English, students analyse the interrelationships of author, text, and audience, with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts.

Students engage with a variety of texts and write a form of analytical response on their use of structure, conventions and techniques. In the past students use have viewed films, read novels and listened to performance poetry. Students also write and create a range of creative texts types for different purposes.

Students will undertake:

  • Respond to three different texts, which may include films, novels, poetry or a series of short texts. Some of the previous text choices include American Sniper, The Light Between Oceans, Geoff Goodfellow

  • Create three texts for a variety of purposes (entertain, inform, persuade) plus a writers statement which explains your creative choices for one of these texts

  • A comparative analysis between two independently selected texts. Texts chosen could be prose, poetry, film, film trailers, media texts, picture books, song lyrics or episodes from a TV show.

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The topics for Stage 2 English are:

TOPIC 1

Respond; 3 different texts; film, novel, poetry

TOPIC 2

Create 3 texts for a variety of purposes

TOPIC 3

comparative analysis between 2 texts

ENGLISH

Reading at Home

ASSESSMENT

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards as outlined in the Subject Outline. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.


School Based Assessment (70%)

  • Responding to texts (30%) Three responses, two written (maximum of 1,000 words each) and one oral (maximum of 6 minutes); either the oral or one of the written tasks can be replaced by a multimodal text of equivalent length

  • Creating texts (40%) Three texts plus a writer’s statement; at least one of the texts must be written (1,000 words or 6 minute oral); the writer’s statement (1,000 words) can be written or multimodal equivalent in length

External Assessment (30%)

  • Comparative Analysis (30%) A study of two independently selected texts and a response up to 2,000 words

 

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LOCAL DELIVERY

Period of delivery  | Full Year (20 units)

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Delivery Method:   

  • At least two weekly video conferences using Microsoft Teams

 

Intervention Support  

  • If an assessment task does not meet the minimum C- level, or if a student does not meet a deadline, the teacher will communicate with the home school contact and/or parents/caregivers to negotiate support strategies.

 

Reporting

  • Students can monitor continuous progress through Microsoft Teams.

  • Reports will be provided in line with delivery school processes and timelines.

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Prerequisites/ Assumed knowledge

  • Full year of Stage 1 English at C or better.

 

Technical requirements 

  • Laptop with working camera and Microsoft Teams installed.

  • Microphone/headphones.

Video Camera

LOCAL DELIVERY

Eyre Peninsula schools with senior secondary enrolments have made a commitment to offer subjects including SACE and VET to students from other sites across the Eyre Peninsula. This is referred to as Local Delivery. Local Delivery provides students in all schools across the Eyre Peninsula access to a wider range of subjects than what is physically available at their own school.

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