Kaiapoi High School
Level 3 English - Oral & Visual
Course Description
Head of Faculty/Teacher in Charge: Ms J. Collins.
Level 3 English – Oral & Visual requires students to explore language and think critically about the communication of ideas in a range of texts, with a heavier focus on visual and oral texts.
Assessments are taken at a slower pace than in the Classic to Contemporary course. Students have some opportunity to tailor their own assessment programmes, including the mode of assessment in some cases (written, oral, or visual). However, this is still an academic course.
Course Overview
What is taught in courses varies from year to year. This course could include:
Close Viewing
For this topic you will study a visual text, looking closely at how the director has crafted it effectively. You will compare specific techniques used across two different scenes to evaluate how the director has used these techniques to position the audience and manipulate our thinking.
Text Connections
In this unit you will read, listen to and/or view at least four texts based on a topic or timeframe. You will look at similarities and differences between the texts and the way they convey information about the topic. You will create a written report which critically evaluates these texts and the messages conveyed through their similarities and differences.
Oral Presentation
This topic requires you to prepare and deliver an oral presentation based on an important idea from a text, a social justice issue, or a current issue of concern. You will present a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the topic, including the wider world implications of the ideas or issues.
Visual or Oral Text study
In this unit you will study the elements which are part of creating a successful visual or oral text. You will evaluate how these ideas are conveyed through different aspects of the text and how these ideas are relevant to lessons for wider society, including why these lessons are necessary. This will be assessed in the examination at the end of the year.
Recommended Prior Learning
To be accepted for this course students must have earned Level 2 Literacy and a minimum of 10 credits from Level 2 English, or HOF approval.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Charged device. Pen.
Pathway
English is a foundational skill, which is of value in any future career. This is particularly true in people-related jobs such as; social work, health care, journalism, media, education, etc.
English is also useful in support of many other subject areas, and is a prerequisite for a number of courses, both in school and beyond.
Assessment Information
Three internal and one external Achievement Standards are offered in this course. Learning is assessed throughout the year, during class time and for homework, as well as in the examination in November.This course includes four reading and four writing credits for University Entrance Literacy. An additional six writing credits may be offered, at the discretion of the teacher, if students have the level of literacy required for this.
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.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
English 3.2 - Respond critically to specified aspect(s) of studied visual or oral text(s), supported by evidence
NZQA Info
English 3.5 - Create and deliver a fluent and coherent oral text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas
NZQA Info
English 3.7 - Respond critically to significant connections across texts, supported by evidence
NZQA Info
English 3.9 - Respond critically to significant aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close reading, supported by evidence
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 14
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Disclaimer
Please note that courses will go ahead only if student numbers, staffing, and timetabling allow it. Where a subject is oversubscribed, and there are insufficient numbers or resources to create an extra class, a ballot system may be applied.
Costs
The Board of Trustees has again asked to opt into the Ministry of Education donation scheme. Doing so resulted in the ability to waive student fee donations. Kaiapoi High School aims to deliver quality educational courses over and above those that which is funded by the Ministry. It is likely the School will opt into the donation scheme for 2025, however parental contribution for the costs of trips and activities where participation is optional, and/or components not covered by the Government grant, may be requested. We appreciate the financial support our families make to the School.
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