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Subject Selection iBook - St Hildas School

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SECTION 2<br />

English<br />

Authority <strong>Subject</strong><br />

Course outline<br />

Contents<br />

Year 11<br />

✦ Representations of Australia in texts<br />

✦ Biography<br />

‘FREEING THE IMAGINATION, GIVING<br />

VOICE TO OUR THOUGHTS’<br />

The prime aim of any English program is to<br />

produce students who can read, write and<br />

manipulate those skills to function as effective<br />

members of a literate, English speaking<br />

community. The more sophisticated a student's<br />

writing skills and the more fluently she can read a<br />

wide variety of texts, the more freedom she will<br />

have as an adult to move amongst the varying<br />

language demands she will encounter.<br />

✦ Narratives promote ideologies<br />

✦ Asian poetry<br />

✦ Readings of Othello<br />

Year 12<br />

✦ The Catcher in the Rye<br />

✦ Short story<br />

✦ Texts constructing versions of childhood and/or<br />

adolescence<br />

✦ Understanding Macbeth and the way it constructs reality<br />

✦ The World of the Horror Classic<br />

Skills<br />

<strong>St</strong>udents develop the ability to be critically aware of the way<br />

language is used to position them in both literary and media<br />

texts. They will also learn how to manipulate language to suit<br />

their own purposes by writing and speaking across a range of<br />

genres.<br />

12<br />

apple <strong>iBook</strong>s Author

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