Prerequisites
N/A
Corequisites
N/A
Subject Description
Essential English develops and refines students' understanding of language, literature and literacy to enable them to interact confidently and effectively with others in everyday, community and social contexts. The subject encourages students to recognise language and texts as relevant in their lives now and in the future and enables them to understand, accept or challenge the values and attitudes in these texts.
Weekly workload (hours)
4+ hours
Structure
Language that works
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Texts and human experiences
| Language that influences
| Representations and popular culture texts
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Responding to a variety of texts used in and developed for a work context
| Responding to reflective and nonfiction texts that explore human experiences
| Creating and shaping perspectives on community, local and global issues in texts
| Responding to popular culture texts
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Creating multimodal and written texts |
Creating spoken and written texts |
Responding to texts that seek to influence audiences |
Creating representations of Australian identities, places, events and concepts |
Assessment
Four formative assessments are completed in Units 1 and 2, providing students with opportunities to practise the types of tasks they will encounter in Units 3 and 4. In Units 3 and 4, students complete four summative assessments that determine their overall subject result (A–E).
Language that works
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Texts and human experiences
| Language that influences
| Representations and popular culture texts
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| Formative internal assessment 1 (FIA1):
Examination - Short response to stimulus
| Formative internal assessment 3 (FIA3): Extended written imaginative response
| Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Extended response - spoken presentation
| Summative internal assessment 3 (IA3): Extended response - multimodal presentation
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| Formative internal assessment 2 (FIA2):
Extended response – spoken persuasive presentation
| Formative internal assessment 4 (FIA4):
Extended response – multimodal presentation
| Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2):
Common Internal Assessment – Examination – Short response to stimulus (seen and unseen)
| Summative external assessment (IA4):
Extended written response
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