13ENGAM

Year 13 English - Accelerated with Scholarship Media

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 Media Studies


Course Overview

Term 1
Each term we will study part of the scholarship external questions.

- Overview of Scholarship Media, discussion and debate on all things media.
- Question One- Close Reading of a Media Text. We will look at various texts but will select one genre as a class to focus on.

Term 2
Question Three- Production process

Term 3
Question Two- Media and Society, we will look at various texts but will select one industry as a class, to focus on.

Term 4
Revision for the external scholarship examination

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.