Code: ENG123
Title: English
Coordinator: Steve Meaghan

Year 12 English is the culmination of English studies for over 80% of our students, it builds on skills developed in Year 11 English. Students will experience a range of topics that will enable them to develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening and viewing. The emphasis will be on critical literacy and the role of reader in text construction. Students will undertake seven assessment items, four written and three spoken pieces.

Media, classic texts and modern biographies give the course balance and students have a range of choice within assessment to tailor work to their interest, maintaining focus and engagement in learning activities.

Students must pass both written and spoken aspects of the course to achieve sound achievement or better. In recent years, since 2004 over 85% of students pass year 12 English at Aspley State High School.

• Reading Between the Lines Short Story and narrative texts. Written exam 
• Re-constructing Identities- The role of Media in image construction
• Regarding the Classics (Classic texts)
• Media Constructs Public Perception- Editorial Computer Exam.
• Windows to the Soul - Modern Biography
• The Time of Your Life Valedictory Speech
• Icons of the Past, Portals to the Present

Assessment

** To download current assessment  go to Year 12 in the Teaching and Learning Section on the Front page of the Website 

• Short Story Disruption of Discourse Test in Class  
• Expository Text - eg. Panel discussion; seminar; media analysis, informative speech; testimony -
• Regarding the Classics Analytical Exposition in Response to Literature - Open conditions. One draft checked by the teacher -
• Media Constructs Public Perception- Editorial Computer Exam.
• Biographical extract of a marginalised character from autobiography studied or autobiographical extract of a time when you have been marginalised - week beginning 9 June
• Reflective text for public audience - Valedictory address. Individual presentation 4-6 minutes (Short Task) - week beginning 3 September
• Imaginative Text - Scene or monologue to fill a gap in the Shakespearean play studied, Group / Individual - week beginning 29 October

At completion students should

• Be able to make purposeful and informed decisions using the critical literacy skills developed during the course of study.  
• Understand that reading is an interactive process that varies depending on the prior experiences that the reader brings to the text.
• Have enjoyed the course of study and developed an appreciation of the complexity of the English language.  

Literacy elements

The main elements of the senior English course pertain to the development of

• Reading and viewing
• Writing
• Comprehending
• speaking and listening

Integrated technology

A host of different technologies will be used throughout the course ranging from computer skills, such as use of internet for research, word processing and completion of exams on computer.

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.

Resources

Novels

Classic texts such as Nineteen Eighty Four, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Brave New World. 

Non Fiction texts such as The Hurricane.

Media texts such as newspapers, film and documentaries.

Plays

Hamlet and Macbeth will feature in Year 12 English. 

Related Links

QSA website.