Stage 6 Overview
English
By Stage 6, students are developing or have developed an understanding of themselves, and the ways that they relate to learning and the value of learning in their lives. They bring to their learning a range of perspectives and experiences. Students' choices of study are broadened to recognise their growing independence as learners and the diversity of their needs, interests, abilities, goals, pathways and intentions. Study in English at Stage 6 is characterised by students' increased awareness of the ways in which they organise and participate in learning, and by greater self-direction.
At Stage 6, students are more specific and articulate in their study of how meanings are shaped in and through texts. Students extend their skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing, by refining their imaginative and interpretive skills and by applying their analytical abilities to increasingly complex texts. They develop their awareness of personal, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts, their notions of value and their understanding of self and others. They engage in responding to and composing texts, and consider the diverse processes involved in this through their wide reading, and through close analysis of texts. They develop knowledge and understanding of the ways that the linguistic, structural, contextual and thematic interrelationships among texts shape meaning. They develop and apply a knowledge and understanding of the role and function of literary conventions and devices. Students analyse the relationships between texts and technologies of production and evaluate the ways in which the medium itself influences.
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Term 4 |
Year 11 Standard |
Area of Study: Identity Poetry
Speaking Task Reading |
Module: Texts and Society – Authority and Power V For Vendetta - Film
Viewing Task |
Module: Close Study of Text Novel – I am the Messenger
Listening Task Exam - Reading & Writing
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HSC Area of Study: Discovery TBA
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Year 11 Advanced |
Area of Study: Identity Poetry
Speaking Task Reading |
Module: Comparative Study "Against the Flow" Novel and film Hemingway & Life as a House Viewing Task |
Module: Critical Study Macbeth
Listening Task
Exam - Reading & Writing
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HSC Area of Study: Discovery TBA
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Year 12 Standard |
Module A: Distinctly Visual Run Lola Run
Viewing Tasks |
Module B: Close Study of Text Curious Incident
Listening Task |
Module C: Into the World Educating Rita
Speaking Task |
HSC Exams
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Year 12 Advanced |
Module B: Critical Study Speeches
Viewing Task 15% |
Module A: Comparative Study Blade Runner and Frankenstein Speaking Task |
Module C: Conflicting Perspectives Julius Caesar
Listening Task |
HSC Exams |
Drama
Year 11 |
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In the Preliminary Drama course students learn the skills of Improvisation, Playbuilding and Acting. In Improvisation, students learn how to work spontaneously to create characters and situations, explore ideas and issues, and use, and experiment with, dramatic elements and structures. When working with scripted material, students learn how to use improvisation to develop understanding of issues, themes, characters and dramatic forms and styles. In Playbuilding, students learn to collaborate in devising original presentations using dramatic elements, structures and performance styles. Students learn how to use acting skills and performance spaces and how to establish an actor-audience relationship appropriate to style and purpose. Students learn to use production elements such as costume, sound and lighting. Playbuilding can lead to students learning to transform work into scripted form using appropriate conventions and directions. In Acting, students learn to perform drama and theatre to an audience. Acting can occur in both live performance before an audience and in the media of film and video and pre-recorded radio drama. |
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Term 4 |
Topic |
Stanislavski and Method Acting |
Theatre Company |
Experiential Workshops (Realism) |
HSC COMMENCEMENT Traditions of Australian Theatre |
Assessment |
Scripted Monologue |
Theatre Company Performance |
Original Workshop |
Student Guided Workshops |
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