St Luke’s College
Year 12 English 2A- Language and action
Semester 1, 2014
Learning contexts
 Social and cultural
This unit package contains
 a teaching program/course outline
 an assessment outline
Teacher: Mrs Jackie Nicholls
Email: Nicholls.Jackie@cathednet.wa.edu.au
Please note this is a working document and subject to change.
English: Unit 2A
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Teaching program
Unit 2A:
Contexts:
Week
1-4
Language and action
Social and cultural
Learning program
Task 1: Persuasive Language/Production
Part A: Students are to view advertisements, speeches and
images, websites
Focus on:
 Rhetorical devices e.g. rhetorical questions, hyperbole,
repetition
 Use of metaphor, simile, allusion etc.
 Powerful introduction and conclusion
 Use of emphasis
 Symbolic, audio, technical codes, written codes
 Attitudes and values
 Representations
 Connotations/vocabulary choice
 Paragraph/essay structure
 Use of textual references to support idea
 Effectiveness/appeal
 Identifying nuances of connotation
 Generic conventions associated with texts used to affect
attitudes and effect social action
 Evaluating texts for appropriateness to context
 Identifying/challenging dominant ways of thinking about a
topic
 Identifying attitudes, values and beliefs associated with
particular uses of language
 Shaping language for persuasive effect
 Taking into account context and audience expectations
when attempting to affect attitudes and effect social action
The students will complete an essay under timed conditions.
Part A: Students to consider a topic about which they feel
strongly. Using some of the persuasive techniques identified
in Part A, students are to write and deliver a speech to
convince the audience of the validity of their point of view.
5-6
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Assessment
checkpoints
Unit content emphasis
TASK 1: Short Stories
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Part B: Students to read a selection of short stories where
language is used to evoke change.
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role of usage and grammatical conventions in
constructing conceptions of action and change
role of connotation in reflecting and shaping
conceptions of identity
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Annotated speeches
Table
Essay
Persuasive speech
Week
Learning program
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Students will complete comprehension activities related to the
short stories.
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Task 3: Production
Part A: Film study. Students will analyse the film Footy
Legends
7 - 10
Focus on:
 Elements of visual language such as colour, shading,
framing, such as camera angles and shots
 Symbolic, audio, technical codes, written codes
 Written codes
 Target audience
 Representations
 Underlying attitudes and values
Assessment
checkpoints
Unit content emphasis
influence of situational, social and economic contexts
on production and reception of constructions of
identity
influence of previous and co-existing texts on
constructions of identity
comprehending and composing texts in terms of
conceptions of identity
constructions of identity as social, rather than
individual
challenges to dominant constructions of identity
conventions of narratives: dramatic plays, short
stories and novels
 Identifying use of connotation for persuasive purposes
 Shaping language for persuasive effect for different
audiences
 Generic conventions associated with texts
 Effect of context in influencing attitudes
 Clarifying purpose
 Supporting opinions and responses with details and
explanations
 Evaluating and synthesising ideas in different texts to
arrive at own conclusions
 Identifying and critiquing attitudes, values and beliefs
associated with particular uses of language
 Attention to vocabulary, syntax, punctuation and spelling
List of frequently used
persuasive techniques
 Shaping language for persuasive effect for different
audiences
 Conventions associated with presenting arguments
 Taking into account context when attempting to influence
attitudes
Completed worksheets
Essay
Essay.
Part B: In class essay unseen question
10–14
Task 3: Investigation/response
Part A: Students to read Jasper Jones and analyse the
values and attitudes of the community. Students will also
discuss the ways in which power relationships are
represented through language and consider the ways in
which language can serve to empower or disempower
characters.
Character table
Notes (one page)
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Week
Learning program
Focus on:
 Social and political context
 Setting of novel
 Characterisation and power relationships
 Values and attitudes
 Issues of concern/controversy
 Use of language to locate power
 Intertextual links
Unit content emphasis
 Clarifying purpose when attempting to affect attitudes
 Note-making and planning strategies
 Supporting opinions and responses with details and
explanations
Students complete an unseen, in class essay. Two questions
to be answered: one about Jasper Jones and the other in
relation to an unseen text.
Part B: Essay topic: Identity and community.
The essay should be written as an in-class assessment.
Allow students time to plan and prepare their response and
one page of notes which they may use during the assessment
and submit with the final copy of their essay. Students may
refer to their text during the assessment.
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Assessment
checkpoints
Final copy of essay
Assessment outline
Unit 2A:
Contexts:
Assessment
type
Response /
Investigation
Language and action
Social and cultural
Assessment
type weightings
35%
(CC weighting
20–40%)
30%
Production
Oral
Participation /
Production
(CC weighting
20–40%)
20%
(CC weighting
10–20%)
15%
Exam
(CC weighting
10–20%)
Week
due
Task
weighting
s
12 (T2,
W2)
9/5/14
15%
Task 3 (Part B): Discussion essay
based on characters. In class.
Shaping language
Conventions of argument
Awareness of context
13 (T2,
W3)
15/5/14
15%
Task 2 (Part A): Film study worksheets
Critiquing attitudes
Supporting opinions
Attention to vocabulary
8
27/3/14
10%
Task
Task 3 (Part A): Novel study regarding
how language empowers or
disempowers characters. (Similar to
Section 1 of the exam) In class.
Content
Note-making and planning
strategies
Contextual understanding
Outcome 2
Viewing
Outcome 3
Reading
Outcome 4
Writing
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Task 2 (Part B): In Class Essay
Persuasive language
Generic conventions
Task 1 (Part A): Writing and delivering
a persuasive speech.
Identifying nuances of
connotation and other
persuasive techniques
4
28/2/14
Task 1 (Part B): Comprehension
activities on short stories
Shaping language for purpose,
context and audience
5
7/3/14
5%
The school examination will assess
work covered in the unit completed,
using questions requiring response and
production.
Conventions
Contextual understanding
Argument, analysis and
comprehension
15
(Term 2,
Wk 5)
20%
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Outcome 1
Listening
and
speaking
9
3/4/14
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20%
15%
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5
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