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Year 12 English 3AB

Semester 1

Texts

Assessment

Assessment Type

Weighting

Week

1-5

Course Introduction

Introduce novel Frankenstein Mary Shelley (focus on context & genre) - novel study to continue in term two*

Literary Theory -Gender/Race & Ethnicity/Social Class/ Power

Short Stories - Reading Stories (Mellor)

TASK 1
Part A: In-class Essay - Application of theory to short story
Part B: Creative Interpretation (400 words) - Write a segment of a short story in the style of "The Whole Town's Sleeping" (Bradbury) or "A Jury of Her Peers" (Glaspell)
Week 5

Written Production

S1

25%

Year

12.5%

(7.5%)

(5%)

6-10

Drama - Away (Gow)

TASK 2
Oral Presentation - Application of contextual knowledge to reading.
Week 10

Oral Production

20%

10%

11-14

Feature Film - Witness, Dark City, Chinatown,Bladerunner, The Full Monty, Fight Club, Gattaca etc.

TASK 3
In-class Essay - Analysis of codes/conventions and application of theory
Week 14

Response/Investigation

25%

12.5%

15

*Continue study of novel - Frankenstein

16

Exam Revision

Semester One Examination

TASK 4
Examination
Weeks 17/18

30%

10%

19-20

*Resume study of novel - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

(S1 total: 1 00%)

Semester 2

Texts

Assessment

Assessment Type

Weighting

Week

1

Novel - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

TASK 5
In-class Essay - Gendered. Post-colonial, Marxist, psychoanalytical reading of novel. Critical examination of historical context of text/writer. Analysis of narrative techniques.
Week 1

Response/Investigation

Year (cont.)

12.5%

2-5

Expository Text Reader - Junk Male (Webb), Manhood (Biddulph), Claiming A Continent (Day), Brotherboys (Gorman) plus additional current feature articles

TASK 6
Part A: Feature Article - Notions of Australian masculinity, war, etc. Application of expository techniques.
Part B: In-class Essay - Analysis of article in terms of context, reader positioning, codes/conventions, values/attitudes etc.
Week 5

Written Production

12.5%
(7.5%)
(5%)

6-8

Documentary Film - Bra Boys, Murderball , Letters to Ali , Spellbound etc

TASK 7
Oral Analysis of Documentary film plus related still images -Conventions & codes, values/attitudes, ideologies, versions of truth, audience positioning etc
Weeks 8/9

Oral Production

10%

9

Exam Revision

0

Semester Two Examination

TASK 8
Mock WACE
Week 10

20%

Term Four

WACE Examination

(Year total: 100%)

NB: Tasks will be marked by students' own class teachers, cross-marked internally or marked externally.

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