Westlake Boys High School
Year 13 English - Accelerated with Scholarship Physical Education
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr D. Smale.
Level 3 English Accelerated
The 13ENGA course is designed to challenge and stimulate our most gifted cohort of students, with the assessment focus being the scholarship exam. Emphasis is placed upon developing students’ passion and enthusiasm for the language and ideas of literature in a program which is the culmination of a five year journey in the extension pathway. Wider reading and inter-textual conception is actively encouraged in order to foster lifelong learners. The course will occupy four of the six periods in the single option line with students selecting an additional scholarship option paper (one of Physical Education, Media Studies, Classics or Art History) for the remaining two periods. Scholarship English covers a range of literature including T.S Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, James K. Baxter, Katherine Mansfield, John Keats, Hone Tuwhare and William Shakespeare as well as exploring alternative avenues such as film, television and music lyrics.
The Scholarship examination is broken into three sections:
- Section A: Unfamiliar Text analysis (analysing two unseen texts, looking for elements of comparison and contrast)
- Section B: Genre (writing an essay about a chosen genre - most students are prepared for the poetry genre)
- Section C: General Literature (writing an essay that responds to a generic statement about literature)
It is a requirement for all students in the Level 3 Accelerated course to sit the Scholarship exam.
Scholarship Physical Education
This is a two lesson per cycle course. There is only written assessment of this course - no 'physical' assessment. Instead, the physical activity is a component to the course.
Students are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations. In Scholarship Health and Physical Education, critical evaluation will be expected as a vital component of the report.
Format of the assessment
Assessment will be in the form of a report.
The report will be a critical evaluation of an aspect or aspects drawn from the Health and Physical Education area in The New Zealand Curriculum up to and including Curriculum Level 8.
The report will be supported by an organised collection of evidence and references drawn from both New Zealand and international sources.
The report should be submitted digitally, through a process advised by NZQA, in the submission instructions published on the subject page in July 2020. The report may contain images, sketches, diagrams, illustrations, and other forms of graphic representation.
The report must not exceed the equivalent of 30 double-spaced single-sided A4 pages. Pages must be numbered. References must be given in an appropriate format, preferably footnotes.
The font in reports must be the approximate equivalent of Arial 12.
Material obviously in excess of the maximum limit will not be marked. Repeated or extraneous material may be seen as evidence of flawed communication.
Appendices to the report must contain only selected relevant information that is directly referred to in the report, e.g. a questionnaire or brief video. Appendices are included in the 30-page limit
Course Overview
Term 1
Modernism, Post-Modernism
Term 2
New Zealand Literature, Shakespeare (King Lear)
Practice exam
Term 3
Film, TV, Alternative text
Practice Exam
Term 4
Revision, Exam
Entry Criteria
Open only to students who have successfully completed Level Two Extension English.
Equipment/Stationery and Course Costs
This course makes significant use of digital learning material at various times during the year. It is advantageous for a student to have a laptop during these times. Some learning activities, including assessments, will not be able to be completed without a laptop.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
Disclaimer
Course selection does not guarantee a course will be available or that you have approval to take a course. Final course confirmation is in January and depends on your final results and in rare cases, staff availability.
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