Stage 1 English
In English, students analyse how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives. They consider how text conventions and stylistic choices position the audience and apply this knowledge in their creation of imaginative, interpretive, analytical, and persuasive texts, that may be written, oral, and/or multimodal.
Subject Type: Compulsory. Students to receive their SACE must be assessed at a C grade or higher for the literacy requirement in an English subject at Stage One.
Length: Two semesters
SACE Credits: 10 credits per semester= 20 credits for the year.
Prerequisites: C for 2 semesters of Year 10 English
Contact Person: English Learning Area Leader: Stephen Summers - stephen.summers@stcolumba.sa.edu.au
Further Reading: https://www.sace.sa.edu.au/web/english/stage-1/subject-outline
Semester One Topic Overview
- Film Study
- Novel Study
- Creating sophisticated narrative or recounts
- The study of how indigenous dispossession is portrayed across a range of texts.
Semester One Assessment Overview
Responding to Texts (50%)
- Deconstruction of a short film sequence or 3 screenshots, delivered as an oral presentation
- Text response essay in relation to ideas and themes in the shared novel
Creating Texts (20%)
- Annotated narrative or recount, demonstrating recount or narrative features and techniques
Intertextual Study (30%)
- A comparison essay, focusing on how two texts have been constructed to represent aspects of Indigenous dispossession.
Semester Two Topic Overview
- Film Study
- War Poetry study
- Creating non-traditional texts
- Individual comparative study of student selected novel and film.
Semester Two Assessment Overview
Responding to Texts (50%)
- Writing as the imagined director, the student discusses the technical, audio, symbolic and acting codes for a new version of a Shakespeare scene studied in class
- An oral presentation examining the impact of a war poem
Creating Texts (20%)
- Students create a social media or media text
Intertextual Study (30%)
- A comparison essay tracking the representation of an idea or theme across a novel and film text