Westlake Boys High School
Year 11 English - Foundation
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss L. Anderson.
Year 11 Foundation English
Year 11 English Foundation provides a targeted focus on Writing, Reading and Comprehension skills. Students work through a program designed to build their confidence and ability within English. They will work through an oral presentation unit, producing a podcast that explores an area of interest and personal response. Additionally, a strong focus will be placed on essay writing skills with a long term goal for external exam success.
Course Overview
Term 1
Voices of My World
Personal response and oral presentation unit
Term 2
Voices of the World
Written Text Study
Essay writing skills and reading comprehension skills
Mid-Year Exams
Term 3
Connecting Voices
Connections report with self-selected and studied texts
Term 4
Voices of the World
Visual Text Study
Essay writing skills and reading comprehension skills
End-of-Year Exams
Entry Criteria
Year 11 English Foundation is an open entry course, however students will be guided into the appropriate English course based on either their year 9 and/or 10 results or their entrance test result.
Equipment/Stationery and Course Costs
As this course makes extensive use of digital learning material. It is expected that you will have a laptop or other suitable learning device available for each class when required.
Pathway
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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