Year 11 English

The study of English in Aotearoa, New Zealand:

• Enhances lifelong learning and effective communication skills such as reading, writing, speaking, viewing and listening, equipping you to make appropriate language choices and apply them in a range of contexts.

• Contributes to your developing sense of identity and connection with the world, and your awareness of Aotearoa’s, New Zealand's bicultural heritage. You will learn how to deconstruct and interrogate a variety of texts in order to understand the power of language to enrich and shape your own and others’ lives.

• Allows you to develop skills that empower you to think critically and express yourself creatively.

In this course you will learn to be a lifelong learner, who is creative and critical, by reading, viewing and listening to a range of texts and language use in context. You will learn to effectively communicate your ideas in a variety of creative ways.

Students will engage in a course that is shaped around texts chosen to meet the interests and needs of students. The course content includes the teaching of: textual analysis skills; language and context analysis skills; and, writing skills. 

Your work will be assessed through two internal achievement standards which are assignments completed through your chosen communication mode and an external achievement standard (exam). 

• Standard AS91924 - Demonstrate understanding of how context shapes verbal language use (internal)

• Standard AS91926 - Develop ideas in writing using stylistic written conventions (internal)

• Standard AS91927 - Demonstrate understanding of significant aspects of unfamiliar texts (external)

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