Stage 1 English

English is studied as a 20-credit subject at Stage 1.

In English, students analyse the interrelationship between author, text, and audience with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts. They consider social, cultural, economic, historical, and/or political perspectives in texts and their representation of human experience and the world.

Students explore how the purpose of a text is achieved through application of text conventions and stylistic choices to position the audience to respond to ideas and perspectives. An understanding of purpose, context, and audience is applied in students’ own creation of imaginative, interpretive, analytical, and persuasive texts that may be written, oral, and/or multimodal.

Students have opportunities to reflect on their personal values and those of other people by responding to aesthetic and cultural aspects of texts from the contemporary world, from the past, and from Australian and other cultures.

Learning Scope and Requirements

The learning requirements summarise the key knowledge, skills, and understandings that students are expected to develop and demonstrate through their learning in Stage 1 English.

In this subject, students are expected to:

• Analyse relationships between purpose, context, and audience and how these influence texts and their meaning

• Analyse ways in which ideas and perspectives are represented in texts and interpreted by readers

• Analyse how language and stylistic features and conventions are used to convey ideas and perspectives in texts

• Create oral, written, and/or multimodal texts for particular purposes, contexts, and audiences

• Identify and analyse inter-textual connections

• Apply knowledge and understanding of accurate spelling, punctuation, syntax, and conventions.

Content

The content includes:

• Responding to Texts

• Creating Texts

• Inter-textual Study

Assessment:

Semester 1

Responding to texts
- 2 tasks (45%)

Creating texts
- 1 task (25%)

Intertextual Study (30%)

Semester 2

Responding to texts
- 1 task (25%)

Creating texts
- 1 task (20%)

Intertextual Study (25%)

Exam (30%)