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Year 11 Vocational Major Literacy
Duration: Full Year
Literacy empowers students to read, write, speak and listen in different contexts. Literacy enables students to understand the different ways in which knowledge and opinion are represented and developed in texts drawn from daily life. By engaging with a wide range of text types and content drawn from a range of local and global cultures, forms and genres, students learn how information can be shown through print, visual, oral, digital and multimodal representations.
Students enrolled in the Vocational Major will be assessed by the Senior School to determine their suitability for either English or Literacy for Units 1 and 2. This decision takes into consideration student aspiration and achievement.
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE OUTLINE
Unit 1
Area of Study 1: Literacy for personal use
Students read texts that serve a variety of purposes, from everyday content written to convey information, to texts written for specific workplaces or educational settings. Students will employ a variety of strategies to develop their understanding of the purpose and key ideas within the written and spoken language. They will extend their knowledge of the layout and format of a range of text types and use indexes, headings, subheadings, chapter titles and blurbs to locate and extract information.
Area of Study 2: Understanding and creating digital texts
Students read, view and interact with different digital texts and participate in learning activities to develop their capacity to explore and discuss their impact. They will identify the ways a visitor encounters and experiences digital texts, considering their purpose and the social, cultural, vocational and workplace values associated with it. They will explore text through the prism of their own experience, knowledge, values and interests, and also those of others.
Unit 2
Unit 2
Area of Study 1: Understanding issues and voices
Students engage in issues that are characterised by disagreement or discussion, developing and expanding upon students’ learning from Unit 1. Students will consider the values and beliefs that underpin different perspectives and how these values create different biases and opinions, including thinking about how these issues might arise in particular vocational or workplace settings. Students will read, view and listen to a range of texts and content that demonstrate diverse opinions on a range of local and global issues, and which may impact on their community or be of particular concern to a vocational or workplace group. Students should consider the language and purpose of different text types and consider how this language is used to influence an audience.
Area of Study 2: Responding to opinions
Students practise their use of persuasive language and participate in discussion of issues, either in print, orally or via a digital platform. Students consider their own perspectives on issues and develop reasoned and logical responses to these discussions in a respectful and thoughtful manner. Students consider the arguments presented and critically analyse the language, evidence and logic of the arguments of others so that they can create their own response. In constructing their own responses, students select evidence that supports their viewpoint. Students learn to accurately reference and acknowledge the evidence they select.
ASSESSMENT TASKS
ASSESSMENT TASKS
Unit 1
Unit 1
A folio of tasks in response to a film, including a reflection from the perspective of a character
A written report on a significant person
Social media review and safe practices podcast
Unit 2
Unit 2
A folio of tasks in which they explore a range of perspectives on topical issues
Students present their own perspective on one or more topical issues
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