Year 9 Subject Selection Guide 2020

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (ENGLISH) Subject Summary: The Language and Literature course is intended to equip students with linguistic, analytical and communication skills which can be used across all subject groups in the MYP. The course focuses on six skill areas-listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and presenting-developed within an inquiry-based pedagogy. In accordance with the aims of the Language and Literature course, the Somerset College English programme in Year 9 and Year 10 provides students with the opportunity to: • use language as a vehicle for thought, creativity, reflection, learning, self-expression and social • interaction • develop the skills involved in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and presenting in a variety of contexts • develop critical, creative and personal approaches to studying and analysing literary and non-literary texts • engage with text from different historical periods and a variety of cultures • explore and analyse aspects of personal, host and other cultures through literary and non-literary • texts • explore language through a variety of media and modes • develop a lifelong interest in reading • apply linguistic and literary concepts and skills in a variety of real-life contexts

Assessment Outline: The following assessment criteria will be used to assess the work of students in this subject:

• Criterion A: Analysing (maximum 8 marks) • Criterion B: Organising (maximum 8 marks) • Criterion C: Producing Text (maximum 8 marks) • Criterion D: Using Language (maximum 8 marks) YEAR 9 - SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: • Two Mock NAPLAN Writing Tasks • Analytical Written Response • Oral Presentation • Analytical Written Response

YEAR 10 - SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: 1. Written Response for a Public Audience 2. Analytical Written Response 3. Imaginative Response 4. Analytical Written Response

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