English 200 

Course Description:

This course will examine the role sport plays in society and includes a student chosen research project on an aspect of sporting culture. Their understanding will also be shared via a podcast or speech.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes:

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 7

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits: 4

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

Sport and Society                 

Course Description:

In this course, students will look at a range of texts that have been influenced by the natural world, environment, and climate crisis. They will explore how people use literature and film to reflect on their connection to the natural world, and how the taiao (environment) is woven throughout our experiences and histories. Students will complete the writing portfolio and connections assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 10

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 10

• UE Reading credits: 

• UE Writing credits: 6 

Possible next step: English 300

English and the Environment 

Course Description:

This course is about understanding the importance of Māori and Pacific voices in literature and other texts, and how they help shape or reflect the diverse identities of Oceania. Students will complete connections and a speech or podcast.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  7

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits: 0

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

Māori and Pacific Voices 

Course Description:

This course will look at some popular conspiracy theories and how they are shaped and popularised in our culture. Students will complete research and a speech or podcast.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  7

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits:  4

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

Conspiracy Theories  

Course Description: 

This course will provide students with the opportunity to share their own thoughts, experiences, values… Telling us about what matters while also developing their writing and speaking skills. Students will complete the writing portfolio and speech assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 9

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 9

• UE Reading credits: 0

• UE Writing credits: 6

Possible next step: English 300

This course is not running in 2024

Course Description:

This course will focus on dystopian ideas and texts. In this course, students will explore why humans are so fascinated by a dystopian future - and what this tells us about our present reality. Students will complete the writing portfolio and connections or speech assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  9 - 10

• External credits: 0

• Total credits:  9 - 10

• UE Reading credits: 0

• UE Writing credits:  6

Possible next step: English 300

Dystopia 

Course Description:

This course will look at how song lyrics can be powerful poetry, filled with literary devices and written by master wordsmiths. Students will explore an issue or topic related to music via a research project and will share this in a podcast or speech.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  7

• External credits:  0

• Total credits:  7

• UE Reading credits:  4

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

Messages in Music 

Course Description:

This course looks at how mythology from around the world has been adapted to modern society. Students will complete research and a speech or podcast.

Contact teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  7

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits: 4

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

Modern Mythic 

Course Description:

This course will provide students with the opportunity to explore the connections between language and art, considering how both have evolved over time. Students will look at visual and written sources as the basis for researching and exploring their own areas of inquiry. 

Students will complete research and speech assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  7

• External credits: 0

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits:  4

• UE Writing credits: 0

Possible next step: English 300

this course is not running in 2024

Course Description:

This course will focus on the analysis of a visual text. This will occur via a close viewing of the film internal assessment, as well as an external paper. Students will complete an auteur study - focussing on one New Zealand director

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available:  Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 3

• External credits: 4

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits: 0

• UE Writing credits: 4

Possible next step: English 300

NZ culture in film 

 Course Description:

This course focuses on the analysis of both written and visual texts; in the study of a film and unfamiliar text(s). There are two external examinations in this course.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 0

• External credits: 8

• Total credits: 8

• UE Reading credits: 4

• UE Writing credits: 8

Please note, some standards count for both UE Literacy Reading and Writing.

Possible next step: English 300

It’s the little things 

Course Description:

This course will explore what authors have to say in a range of written texts. It will contain two external assessments. One will be the written text and the other will be unfamiliar text(s).

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  0

• External credits: 8

• Total credits: 8

• UE Reading credits: 8

• UE Writing credits: 8

Please note, some standards count for both UE Literacy Reading and Writing.

Possible next step: English 300

What do they have to say? 

Course Description:

This course will involve a close exploration of poetry and its place within our world today. Does good poetry have to rhyme? Is a poem really just a story with lots of line breaks? Can you write poems about anything? Come find out! There are two external examinations in this course.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 0

• External credits: 8

• Total credits: 8

• UE Reading credits: 8

• UE Writing credits: 8

Please note, some standards count for both UE Literacy Reading and Writing.

Possible next step: English 300

Poetry Power 

Course Description:

This can be taken as a continuation of the Māori and Pacific Voices course in the first semester, or as a stand-alone course. Students will complete the writing portfolio and the visual text exam.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  6

• External credits:  4

• Total credits:  10

• UE Reading credits: 0

• UE Writing credits:  10

Possible next step: English 300

Māori and Pacific Voices 2 

Course Description:

This course will be based on a social issue and/or social actions that have created change. Students will analyse a visual and/or oral text. This text will be the basis of their internal and external assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 3

• External credits: 4

• Total credits: 7

• UE Reading credits:  0

• UE Writing credits:  4

Possible next step: English 300

This course is not running in 2024

Course Description:

This can be taken as a continuation of the Sport and Society course in the first semester or as a stand alone course. Students will analyse a visual and/or oral text. This text will be the basis of their external assessment.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits: 3

• External credits: 4

• Total credits:  7

• UE Reading credits:  0

• UE Writing credits:  4

Possible next step: English 300

This course is not running in 2024

Course Description:

This course looks at the power of the female voice in literature and will focus on well-known Māori, Pacific and Western women. Students will sit both the written and unfamiliar text(s) external assessments.

Contact Teacher: Katrina Hudson

Outcomes

• Endorsement available: Choice dependent

• Internal credits:  0

• External credits: 8

• Total credits: 8

• UE Reading credits:  8

• UE Writing credits: 8

Please note, some standards count for both UE Literacy Reading and Writing.

Possible next step: English 300

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