Requirements and expectations 2014
Welcome to Year 12 English
Your personal goal for the year should beto achieve the highest possible studyscore (out of 50):
-Good English students should beaiming above 40
-The minimum requirement for mostuniversity courses is 25
Materials needed
All texts and Insight textbook
Study guides (recommended)
A4 ring folder with 5 dividers
Plastic pockets/hole-punch for handouts
Dictionary and Thesaurus (recommended)
Black and blue pens (no pink, aqua, purple,green, bright red, yellow, orange and no greylead pencils for essays!)
Area of Study 1:Reading and responding
Students examine the structures, features and conventions usedby authors of a range of selected texts to construct meaning.
They identify, discuss and analyse these in order to explain howmeaning is constructed through textual elements such aslanguage and images.
They also examine the ways in which the same text is open todifferent interpretations by different readers; for example, theways in which a text can be read differently in a different time,place or culture.
They describe and analyse the way in which social, historicaland/or cultural values are embodied in texts, and develop oraland written responses to a selected text, using appropriatemetalanguage.
Area of Study 1:Reading and responding
‘In the Country of Men’ by Hisham Matar(novel)
‘Twelve Angry Men’ by Reginald Rose (play)
Area of Study 2:Creating and Presenting
Students will read or view selected texts in order to identify,discuss and analyse ideas and/or arguments associated withthe chosen Context.
They will reflect on the ideas and/or arguments suggested bythese texts, explore the relationship between purpose, form,audience and language, and examine the choices made byauthors in order to construct meaning.
Students will then draw on the ideas and/or arguments theyhave gained from the texts studied to construct their owntexts. They write for a specified audience and purpose anddraw on their experience of exploring texts to explain theirown decisions about form, purpose, language, audience andcontext.
Area of Study 2:Creating and Presenting
Context: Exploring issues of identity andbelonging
‘Skin’ directed by Anthony Fabian (film)
‘The Mind of a Thief’ by Patti Miller (novel)
Area of Study 3:Using Language to Persuade
The focus of this area of study is on the analysis and comparison of theuse of language in texts that debate a topical issue which has appearedin the Australian media since 1 September of the previous year.
Students read, view and listen to texts such as feature articles andopinion columns, cartoons, editorials, letters to the editor, interviewson current affairs programs, websites and CD-ROMs, speeches,excerpts from online focus and discussion groups, and advertisementsin magazines and newspapers, and on websites and television. Theyanalyse and compare the ways in which verbal and non-verbal(including visual) language of these texts is used to persuade readersand viewers to share the point/s of view being presented.
Drawing on their study of the use of language to persuade, studentsconstruct a piece of sustained and reasoned writing in which they putforward their own point of view on the selected issue in written or oralform.
Area of Study 3:Using Language to Persuade
A study of various current issues in theAustralian media.
Part A: Language analysis (written essay)
Part B: Point of view (oral presentation)
Assessment
50% of your final study score is derived fromschool assessed coursework (SACs)completed throughout the year.
The other 50% of your final study score isderived from the end of year examination(duration 3 hours)
School assessed coursework
Unit 3:
Language Analysis 20%
Oral presentation 20%
Reading &Responding ‘In the Country of Men’ 30%
Creating & Presenting ‘Skin’ 30%
Unit 4
Creating &Presenting ‘The Mind of a Thief’ 50%
Reading & Responding ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 50%
Examination
One examination in the November exam period
Three hours in duration (plus 15 mins reading time)
Three pieces of writing required, one on each of thethree areas of study
No prescribed word limit for writing pieces howeverhigh achieving pieces are normally 800 words orlonger
Verification tests
All Year 12 VCE subjects require verification tests inWeek 1. The purpose of these tests is to ensure that allstudents are keeping up with required homework. (Theyear goes very quickly in Year 12 and anyone who fallsbehind will struggle.)
For the English verification test you will need todemonstrate that you have read ‘In the Country of Men’.You will need to show a close understanding of the novel(you can’t just Google it!)
If you do not pass the verification test your enrolment inVCE will be reviewed. You may be asked to attend ameeting between coordinators and your parents orguardians.
What to do over summer…
Complete research task for ‘In the Country of Men’ as setduring orientation period (best to complete this beforereading the novel)
Read novel in preparation for verification test
Creating & Presenting homework as set during orientationperiod, this will involve collecting resources regardingissues of identity & belonging
Pay close attention to the news and follow issues that areprominent in the media, including local and global affairs
If possible, join your class wiki and communicate withteachers and classmates over summer. There is no need towork in isolation.
Online resources
www.vcaa.vic.edu.au (use this to access the Englishstudy design, past exams and assessment reports)
There are also a number of books and commercialresources available online targeting VCE students(which you would be required to pay for). Some ofthese may be good, however others may not be able tooffer much more than is already available. Best tocheck with your teacher first if you are wonderingabout any of these.
Good luck!
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