Year 11 QCE Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 11 ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE (QCE) SUBJECT OVERVIEW ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE is a course of study consisting of four units, completed over two years. Subject matter, learning experiences and assessment increase in complexity from Units 1 and 2 to Units 3 and 4 as students develop greater independence as learners. Only the results for Units 3 and 4 will contribute to ATAR calculations. Across Units 1 and 2, students must study at least three texts. Across Units 3 and 4 students must study at least four texts, selected from the Prescribed Text List. This course is designed for students for whom English is not their first or home language. YR 11 COURSE OUTLINE UNIT FOCUS

1. Language, Text and Culture [Novel The Longest Memory, African American Poetry, various media texts]

In Unit 1, students will explore how language and culture are interrelated and expressed in a range of socio-cultural contexts. In the course of this unit, they will develop an understanding of and ability to use texts structures and language features across a range of contexts. In Unit 2, students will respond to and analyse perspectives represented in Australian texts and consider how cultural assumptions, values, attitudes and beliefs underpin these texts. In the course of this unit, they will further develop their understanding of the relationships between language, texts, purpose, context and audience. In Unit 3, students will build on and consolidate their capacity to examine how texts make meaning as they analyse and respond to representations of contemporary social issues, ideas and attitudes in a range of literary and non-literary texts.

2. Perspectives in Texts [Film Jasper Jones, Play Away ]

3. Issues, Ideas and Attitudes [Novel Cellist of Sarajevo , Poetry of Wilfred Owen, various media texts]

YR 11 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

UNIT

TASK

ISSUE DATE

DUE DATE

1

1. Analytical Written Response (25%) Seen Supervised 800-1200 words 2 hours 30 minutes (over several lessons) 2. Persuasive Written Response (25%) 800-1200 words 3. Imaginative Spoken/Multimodal Response (25%) Spoken: 5-8 minutes/Multimoda l : 6-9 minutes

Term 1 Week 2

Term 1 Week 8

Term 1 Week 9

Term 2 Week 4

2

Term 2 Week 5

Term 3 Week 2

4. Analytical Essay (25%) Unseen Supervised 800-1000 words 2 hours 15 minutes (in one sitting)

NA

Term 3 Week 6 - 8

3

To be assessed in Year 12

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