13ENGAA

Year 13 English - Accelerated with Scholarship Art History

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.

Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan: Jimmy Berman (1971) | Elsewhere by Graham Reid Dark-haired man in light colored short-sleeved shirt working on a typewriter at a table on which sits an open book


Scholarship Art History 

This course is designed to equip students for the NZQA Scholarship Art History examination. The examination consists of three sections: two essay style questions, one focusing on style and content, the other on context, and a response to an Art History text. These questions are very broad and therefore require not only a good overall knowledge of the history of Western Art for the past 600 or so years but moreover a detailed knowledge of 20-30 specific art works in a range of styles and from a range of periods, a pool from which students can draw examples when answering.

The course will introduce the meta-language of Art History before providing an overview of the history of art in conjunction with both a discussion of important works and an analysis of appropriate significant art historical texts has they occur. Further there will be a close focus on texts in term 3. As class teaching and discussion will tend to be quite general it is important that students independently engage with artworks and related commentaries in their own time when asked to do so. I would expect that 60-70 % of the work would be done out of class as student inquiry.

There are no formal assessments through the year but students will be expected to sit both mid-year and end-of-year internal school exams.

It is recommended that students bring refill and a clear file to class as there will undoubtedly be many handouts during the year and having ready access to these for in class will be important.

Although I will try to vary the lesson approach when possible, given the extensive amount of ground we will have to cover, many classes will be taught in a lecture-style format. Students will therefore be required to independently take notes in class throughout the lesson in the manner of tertiary education. 


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 Accelerated English.

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.