English

Stage 1

Full year or Semester
10 or 20 credit

Course Overview

Students will explore a variety of text types through responding to texts, creating written, multimodal and oral texts and undertaking an intertextual study. Students critically and creatively engage with a range of novels, films, media, poetry or drama texts. Students compare texts and consider how they are created for specific purposes, contexts and audiences. Students can expect to complete two responses to texts, create one of their own and an intertextual study. One of these will be an oral.

Assessment

School based
50% – Responding to Texts
20% – Creating Texts
30% – Intertextual Study

Further Information

Stage 1 English is a pathway for Stage 2 English, Stage 2 Literary Studies or Stage 2 Essential English.