S5 HIGHER

The Higher English course offers candidates further development of their abilities to communicate effectively, to think critically, and to be thoughtful and creative.

 Literature is a strong focus of the course: it is a rich source of powerful examples of language in effective use. The study of detailed and complex literature offers candidates opportunities for personal, social, emotional, cultural, and economic growth and development. Engaging with a wide variety of literature, language and media texts exposes candidates to a diversity of people, places, events, cultures, thoughts and ideas, many of which are outside their own immediate experience. Through the study of Scottish texts, candidates develop an awareness of Scotland’s rich social and cultural heritage.

Most students in the department will study the poems of Carol Anne Duffy for the Scottish text and will study William Shakespeare’s Othello or Hamlet for the critical essay.

Students will also complete several pieces of writing for folio and one will be selected and redrafted in order to be externally marked by the SQA.

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