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Year 12 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 3 and 4. Any students who have completed Literacy Units 1 and 2 will most likely enrol in the Units 3 & 4 Literacy class. The decision for a student to move into Literacy for Units 3 and 4 from English will be made with consideration of student aspiration and achievement.
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE OUTLINE
Unit 3
Area of Study 1: Accessing and understanding informational, organisational and procedural texts
Students learn to recognise, analyse and evaluate the structures and semantic elements of informational, organisational and procedural texts as well as discuss and analyse their purpose and audience. Students will develop their confidence to deal with a range of technical content that they will encounter throughout adulthood, such as safety reports, public health initiatives, tax forms and advice, contracts, promotional videos and vocational and workplace texts.Area of Study 2: Creating and responding to organisational, informational or procedural texts
This area of study focuses on texts about an individual’s rights and responsibilities within organisations, workplaces and vocational groups. Students read and respond to a variety of technical content from a vocational, workplace or organisational setting of their choice, demonstrating understanding of how these texts inform and shape the organisations they interact with.
Unit 4
Unit 4
Area of Study 1: Understanding and engaging with literacy for advocacy
Students investigate, analyse and create content for the advocacy of self, a product or a community group of the student’s choice, in a vocational or recreational setting. Students will research the differences between texts used for more formal or traditional types of advocacy, influence or promotion, as well as some of the forms that are increasingly being used in the digital domain for publicity and exposure.Area of Study 2: Speaking to advise or to advocate
Students use their knowledge and understanding of language, context and audience to complete an oral presentation that showcases their learning. The presentation needs to be developed in consultation with the teacher and should focus on an area of student interest with a clearly stated vocational or personal focus.
ASSESSMENT TASKS
ASSESSMENT TASKS
Unit 3
Unit 3
A folio of tasks exploring the purpose, audience and content presented in a variety of informational, organisational and procedural texts used in real-life situations
A variety of organisational, informational and procedural texts that reflect a specific workplace or vocational experience
Unit 4
Unit 4
A range of written, visual and multimodal texts for the promotion of self, a product, or a chosen community group.
A project in which students advocate for a group or topic of their choice and present their piece orally, either directly to the class or in recorded form such as a podcast or promotional piece.
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