Senior course readiness criteria and pre-requisite
C in Year 10 Literature
What is the course about?
The subject Literature focuses on the study of literary texts, developing students as independent, innovative and creative learners and thinkers who appreciate the aesthetic use of language, analyse perspectives and evidence, and challenge ideas and interpretations through the analysis and creation of varied literary texts.
What will students learn?
- In studying Literature, students will learn about:
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Intertextuality
- Literature and Identity
- Independent explorations
What skills will I learn through Literature?
1. Use patterns and conventions of imaginative and/or analytical genres to achieve particular purposes in cultural contexts and social situations in relation to literary studies.
2. Establish and maintain roles of the writer/speaker/designer and relationships with audiences.
3. Create and/or analyse perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in a range of texts.
4. Make use of, in their own imaginative texts, the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts and invite audiences to take up positions, and/or analyse these ways in literary texts created by others.
5. Use aesthetic features and stylistic devices to achieve purposes in their own imaginative texts and/or analyse their effects in literary texts.
6. Select and synthesise subject matter to support perspectives in imaginative and analytical texts.
7. Organise and sequence subject matter to achieve particular purposes in imaginative and analytical texts.
8. Use cohesive devices to emphasise ideas and connect parts of texts.
9. Make language choices for particular purposes and contexts.
10. Use grammar and language structures for particular purposes in written, spoken and/or multimodal texts.
11. Use mode-appropriate features to achieve particular purposes.
Course Content
| Year 11 | Unit 1 Introduction to Literary Studies - Students develop knowledge and understanding of the ways literary styles and structures shape how texts are received and responded to by individual readers and audiences.
| Unit 2 Texts and culture - Students develop knowledge and understanding of the ways literary texts connect with each other
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| Year 12 | Unit 3 - students develop knowledge and understanding of the relationship between language, culture and identity in literary texts.
| Unit 4 - students demonstrate increasing independence in exploring, interpreting, analysing and appreciating the aesthetic appeal of literary texts and the insights they offer.
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How will students be assessed?
Students will complete the following assessments:
- examination — extended analytical response (25%)
- extended response — Imaginative response (25%)
- extended response — Imaginative spoken/multimodal response (25%)
- examination — analytical response
Subject summary
| General | Internal assessment (75%) External assessment (25%)
| Up to 4
| Yes Students must pass an English subject to be eligible for an ATAR
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