Albany Senior High School/Coursebook/3ENG

What is this course about?


In this course you will develop your ability to show a discriminating and insightful understanding of a broad range of increasingly sophisticated texts and language techniques as well as communicating your own ideas in a sustained and convincing manner. Students may opt to sit scholarship examinations and their course will integrate the work towards this in standards during the course of the year.

Students in this course also opt into a theme at the beginning of the year. You will study texts that relate to this theme and consider common concepts across them. There are two themes for 2011:


 * The search for identity
 * Societies' power to crush the individual

What will I learn?

 * How to write confidently and precisely in a range of styles to express your ideas.
 * How to comprehensively explore and articulate your ideas verbally through speeches, presentations and debates.
 * How to closely read for meaning, effect and language techniques and make connections by analysing static and moving visual texts.
 * How to integrate sources of information and use processes and structures precisely to understand and respond to surface level and deeper ideas within texts.
 * How to analyse and show a discriminating and insightful understanding of different readings available within a text.
 * Why and how to sustain use of accurate and integrated language features in a range of situations and for different audiences.

What sorts of things will I do?

 * Read a range of written, visual and oral texts such as novels, short stories, articles, poetry, films, and static images.
 * Write, speak and create visual texts to express your own ideas.
 * Analyse and examine perspectives and ideas in texts and demonstrate your understanding of these through creating your own texts.
 * Choose a theme that interests you for your course of study.

What are some of the text options in this course?

 * Themes readers - compilations of short written and graphic novel texts.

Novels/Drama:

 * Catch 22
 * Pride and Prejudice
 * In My Father's Den
 * Othello
 * |The Great Gatsby
 * | The Merchant of Venice

Film

 * Brazil
 * Defiance
 * | Apocalypse Now
 * | Inglorious Basterds