English

Units of Work 
The English Foundation course aims to develop students’: 

• Opportunities to practise their skills with functional literacy, especially spelling, punctuation and grammar.  
• Skills in reading (understanding, comprehending, interpreting, analysing) texts for work, learning, community, and everyday personal contexts.  
• Skills in producing (constructing, creating, writing) texts for work, learning, community, and everyday personal contexts.  
• Skills in speaking and listening for work, learning, community, and everyday personal contexts.  

General
English General focuses on the everyday English required by students to engage competently and confidently in community, further education, and workplace contexts. The syllabus is designed to consolidate, refine, and further develop the language and literacy skills, students require for a wide range of post-secondary pathways.  

Units of Work  

• Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts. 
• Unit 2 focuses on interpreting ideas and arguments in a range of texts and contexts. 
• Unit 3 focuses on exploring different perspectives presented in a range of texts and contexts. 
• Unit 4 focuses on community, local or global issues and ideas presented in texts and on developing students’ reasoned responses to them. 

ATAR
English ATAR focuses on developing analytical, creative, and critical thinking skills in students. It encourages them to engage with a variety of texts from both Australian and other cultures, as well as texts from within their contemporary world. Engaging in such texts allows students to develop a sense of identity and an understanding of the world, and their place in it.  

Units of Work 

• Unit 1 explores how meaning is communicated through the relationships between language, text, purpose, context, and audience. 
• Unit 2 analyses the representation of ideas, attitudes, and voices in texts to consider how texts represent the world and human experience.  
• Unit 3 explores representations of themes, issues, ideas, and concepts through a comparison of texts.  
• Unit Four examines different interpretations and perspectives to develop further their knowledge and analysis of purpose and style. 

Literature
Literature ATAR teaches students to learn to create readings of literary texts and how to create their own texts. These include essays, poems, short stories and plays. Students also engage with literary theory and study literary texts in detail by learning to read texts in terms of their cultural, social, and historical contexts; their values and attitudes; and their generic conventions and literary techniques. 

Units of Work 

• Unit 1 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of different ways of reading and creating literary texts drawn from a widening range of historical, social, cultural, and personal contexts. 
• Unit 2 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of intertextuality, the ways literary texts connect with each other. 
• Unit 3 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the relationship between language, culture, and identity in literary texts. 
• Unit 4 develops students’ appreciation of the significance of literary study through close critical analysis of literary texts drawn from a range of forms, genres, and styles. 

Pre-Requisites 
English Foundations – Recommended for students who require OLNA support 
English General – Nil 
English ATAR – B Grade (Pathway One or Two) 
English Literature – A Grade (Pathway One) 

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Contact Information
Miss Jessica Carlucci
English Teacher
Jessica.Carlucci@cewa.edu.au