1EPW - Level 1 English: Playing with Words
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss T. Harvey.
Entertaining, informing and challenging ... our words have power.
The learning in this course is focused on bringing your ideas alive with your words. You will create a profile of yourself as a writer and develop writing in a variety of forms to publication standard.
To inform your writing development, you will explore written, oral and visual texts in a variety of genres to learn about writing features and the craft of writing. You will use your learning to create engaging and entertaining fiction and non-fiction stories, with the possibility of submitting your work for publication or entering into writing competitions. You will focus on developing the craft of written, oral and visual storytelling with a specific purpose.
Your learning in this course will be co-constructed with you to focus on ideas and texts of shared interest and personal value. Possible contexts could be poetry, journalism, narrative writing and biography.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
A personal laptop is strongly encouraged for all class learning and assessment work.
Pathway
This course supports learning towards all career pathways as the course is focused on critical thinking, analytical reading, writing in various forms, and effective communication.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
Total Credits Available: 20 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 10 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 10 credits.
External
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Pathway Tags
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