Year 12 English Acceleration
12ENGA Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mr D. Smale.
Entry CriteriaThis is a restricted entry course. To gain entry into the Level 2 English Acceleration students must be taking an acceleration course currently.
Year 12 English Acceleration
The 12ENGA course is designed to challenge and stimulate our most gifted cohort of students. This is a full acceleration course which completes a level 3 NCEA English program. It is expected that many students will also partake in the extra-mural scholarship English program with the intention of sitting the scholarship exam this year. Emphasis is placed upon developing students' passion and enthusiasm for the language and ideas of literature, further building upon the skills established in their first three years in the pathway. Wider reading and inter-textual conception is actively encouraged in order to foster lifelong learning. Texts which we study in this course include the poetry of T.S Eliot and Allen Ginsberg, the film Apocalypse Now, and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Course Overview
Term 1
Introduction to 3.1 Written Texts external (91472)
Introduction to 3.3 Unfamiliar Texts external (91474)
Introduction to 3.4 Writing Portfolio internal (91475)
Term 2
Completion of 3.4 Writing Portfolio internal (91475)
School practice examinations
Introduction to 3.2 Visual Text external (91473)
Introduction and Completion of 3.7 Connections (91478)
Term 3
Completion of 3.2 Visual Text external (91473)
Extension study of Hamlet (Scholarship)
School practice examinations
Term 4
Revision
External exams
Semester A