Irene McCormack Catholic College Year 11 English Foundation/General Course Outline 2018 Semester One Term One: Weeks Teaching Content/ Focus English syllabus Assessment 1-5 Introduce the course putting emphisis on the relevance and importance of General English in terms of real life expectations, career pathways and options. Focus on grammar resources provided and their relevance and importance Go through scheme of assessment and explain the course content. Ensure students all know the novels they must have for later in the year. Ensure they all know classroom expectations. Go through the Assessment Policy with regards to late assessments. Advertising Students will be recognising and applying the skills needed for Advertising. Identify purpose of Advertising. View Advertising PP. Recognise skills used to present an Advertisement (AIDA theory). Target audience. Use strategies and skills for comprehending texts, including: relating texts to personal life and other texts Use information for specific purposes and contexts by: locating and extracting information and ideas from texts, for example, skimming and scanning Communicating and interacting with others by: communicating ideas and information clearly adapting listening and analysing behaviours to different contexts TASK ONE: (Responding) 15% Advertisement analysis (Assessment Week 5) Students will have one period to respond to an unseen advertisements in extended paragraph form.
Technical and symbolic codes. Shot type and angles, colours and objects. Written codes, headlines and captions, persuasive language. Explain desire and action created by advertisements. Analysing conventions used in Advertisements. Identify the purpose and power of celebrities in Advertisements. Completion of AIDA table. Research skills in investigating a well-known celebrity. Revise persuasive language skills. Revise paragraph structure (TEELR) and be able to write coherent extended written responses. Scaffold and practice responding to unseen advertisements as a class an individually Complete advertisement analysis. Consider the ways in which texts communicate ideas, attitudes and values, including: how social, community and workplace texts are constructed for particular purposes, audiences and contexts the ways text structures and written and visual language features are used to communicate information and influence audiences how conventions of written and visual language shape audience response Create a range of texts by: developing appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures and using accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar consolidating literacy skills for the workforce or further training using text structures and language features to communicate ideas and information in a range of media and digital technologies Use information for specific purposes and contexts by: understanding how texts are structured to organise and communicate information 6-9 Sustainability advertisement Research sustainability issues. Make notes of three areas of interest. Select one to focus on for their sustainability print advertisement. Use computers to prepare images and texts for advert, making sure the advertisement techniques were employed. Create a of texts by: using appropriate language, content and mode for different purposes and audiences in everyday, community, social, further education, training and workplace contexts TASK TWO: (Creating) 10% Sustainability Advertisement and Rationale Students will submit:
Revision of TEEL paragraph structure and AIDA theory. Scaffolded responses justifying the choices made in advertisement, taking context, audience and purpose into consideration Completion in class of assessment questions about their advertisement. Start reading biographical excerpts of controversial people during Week 10 - 11. using strategies for planning, recording sources of information and proofreading. Use information for specific purposes and contexts by: using strategies and tools for collecting and processing information, for example, informational organisers. a) Week 8 - print advertisement promoting their chosen sustainability cause b) Week 9 - 500-word rationale justifying the significance of design choices Term Two