Yr 13 Higher English
Level Three – Level Eight on the Curriculum
There are two strands in the English Curriculum (2007). They are: Listening, Reading and Viewing and Speaking, Writing and Presenting. Under these strands, students should be able to fulfil the following:
Listening, Reading and Viewing
- select and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfillment;
- recognize and understand the connections between oral, written, and visual language;
- integrate sources of information and prior knowledge with developing confidence to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts;
- select and use a range of processing and comprehension strategies with growing understanding and confidence;
- think critically about texts with developing confidence;
- monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress with growing confidence.
Viewing and Speaking, Writing and Presenting
- use a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts;
- create a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with developing confidence;
- seek feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect;
- if reflective about the production of own texts: monitors and self-evaluates progress, articulating learning with growing confidence.
Students will complete NCEA Level Three Achievement Standards. The course will comprise a combination of internal and external assessments.
During the course of the year students will sit three internally assessed standards and four externally assessed standards.
| Internally Assessed Achievement and Unit Standards | |||
| Ach Std |
90720 |
4 Credits | Produce an extended piece of writing in a selected style |
| Ach Std |
90725 |
4 Credits | Construct and deliver an oral presentation |
| U Std |
12431 |
3 Credits | Read closely and evaluate moving images |
| Externally Assessed Achievement Standards | |||
| Ach Std |
90721 |
3 Credits | Respond critically to a written text (studied) |
| Ach Std |
90722 |
3 Credits | Respond critically to a Shakespearian drama |
| Ach Std |
90723 |
3 Credits | Respond critically to an oral or visual text |
| Ach Std |
90724 |
3 Credits | Respond critically to unfamiliar prose and poetic texts |
Level 4 Scholarship Exams
Students can choose to sit a separate Scholarship exam in English. This is aimed at outstanding English students and is pitched at First Year University level. This is not a replacement for Level 3 and students would sit the Level 4 concurrently.
The three hour Level 4 exams involves three essays:
- Close reading of unfamiliar texts ( 2 passages, compared and contrasted, or similar)
- Respond to literature and language (study a single form of literature – novel, film etc.)
- Exploring an issue in literature and language.
An opportunity to meet as a group will be offered at the beginning of Term Two. These weekly sessions will give students the chance to discuss literature and language topics and to read a wider range of novels in preparation for the examinations.