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Senior School English Pathways PowerPoint
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Literature
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English explores how writers and directors present their views and values, and how they construct a text for a reader or audience.
Skills and knowledge include:
· Analyse the ways writers argue their point of view in the media
· Present a point of view
· Write a creative text response
· Compare two texts in a text response
· Consider the effect texts have on an audience
· Analyse writers’ and directors’ messages
· Use metalanguage
English Language explores the construction of sentences and the ideas conveyed through language.
Skills and knowledge include:
· Word origins
· Grammar
· Changes in language over time
· Sub-systems of language
· Use metalanguage
· Contemporary examples
· Explore audience and purpose
· Language acquisition
· Analytical commentaries on transcripts
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Literature explores language and the stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts.
Skills and knowledge include:
· Write creatively on a text
· Explore critical theory
· Investigate the contexts of texts
· Unearth the writer’s views and values
· Study text adaptations
· Classic and contemporary texts
· Closely analyse language
English as an Additional Language 1&2
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A general course that covers many areas
This subject is for those:
· Interested in looking at the way the media manipulates audiences
· Wanting to choose a familiar course
· Wanting to build literacy skills
· Careers in anything that requires you to read, write, speak and think.
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Supercharged language analysis
This subject is for those:
· Interested in English as a language or studying a second language
· Wanting to try something different, with more concrete answers
· Careers in speech pathology, sociology, teaching and where root words are important: medicine (veterinary and nursing), law, science and mathematics
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For those who love reading
This subject is for those:
· Interested in reading a variety of texts with different audiences and purposes
· Wanting to explore Literature
· Wanting to read texts from different time periods
· Careers in writing, law, criticism, journalism, publicity, publishing, media and education
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