Term 1 – Part 3: LITERATURE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS; Part 1: LANGUAGE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT REVISION; Part 2: LANGUAGE AND MASS COMMUNICATION REVISION Texts: The Great Gatsby and English Language and Literature textbook Weeks Focus Learning Activities Formative & Summative Assessment Term 1 (10 weeks) 1 – 3 Introduction - Expectations - STLLink - Context & critical literacy Part 1: Language and Cultural context Finalising FOA 2 FOA 2 presentations Development of WT1.1 Submission of WT1.1 Internal Assessment: Further Oral Activity 2 – Weeks 2 & 3 (times organized in week 1 out of class time) External Assessment: Written Task 1.1 (Part 1) – draft due Monday 13 Feb (week 4) 4 – 8 Part 3: Text and context The Great Gatsby study (HL) Context of composition – Fitzgerald and his life Contextual lenses – Historicism, Marxism, Feminism, The American Dream and the novel form Close reading and discussion Text extract analysis Identify and understand imagery, symbolism, extended motif, characterisation, narrative perspective, duality and mood Film viewing and comparison to text Visible Thinking Routines writing tasks Deconstructing model paragraphs Writing perfect paragraphs External Assessment: Written Task 1.1 (Part 1) – final due Monday 6 March (week 7) 9 & 10 Part 3: Text and Context Maus & The Great Gatsby (HL) Maus (SL) Familiarisation with Paper 2 type questions Comparing and contrasting texts (HL) Drawing connections and understanding similarities & differences between themes, contexts and literary styles of Maus and The Gatsby (HL) Analyzing Maus (SL) Practice Paper 2 essays – Maus & The Great Gatsby Holiday home learning – Revision of Poe’s selected stories and A Streetcar Named Desire in preparation for the Individual Oral Commentary.
Term 3 – Part 4: TEXTS & CONTEXTS Part 1: LANGUAGE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT REVISION & Part 2: LANGUAGE AND MASS COMMUNICATION REVISION Texts: Kitchen and English Language and Literature textbook Weeks Focus Learning Activities Formative & Summative Assessment Term 3 (9 Weeks) 1 1 YEAR 12 PRACTICE EXAMS COMMENCE - MONDAY 17 JULY TO THURSDAY 20 JULY 2 Saturday 29 July Individual Oral Commentary 2-7 Part 4: Literature – Critical Study Kitchen Context of composition – Yoshimoto and her life Close reading and discussion Ongoing familiarisation with literary devices Contextual lenses - modern Japan, Magical Realism. Feminism, Post modernism Short story/novella form conventions Drawing connections and understanding differences between the themes, contexts and literary styles of Maus and Kitchen and The Great Gatsby and Kitchen. External Assessment: Written Task 2.2 (Part 4) Kitchen – draft due Monday 21 August (week 6) External Assessment: Written Task 2.2 (Part 4) Kitchen – final due Friday 1 September (week 7) 8 Written task 2 Finalising the final WT 2 submission External Assessment: Written Task 2 final selection & submission to be made by Friday 8 September (week 8) 8-9 c c Part 4: Literature – Critical Study The Great Gatsby & Maus revision Part 1: Language in cultural context & Part 2: Language and mass communication Exam revision Refining essay writing skills Comparing and contrasting (HL) Drawing connections and understanding similarities & differences between themes, contexts and literary styles of Kitchen, Maus and The Great Gatsby (HL) Analyzing Kitchen & Maus (SL) Practice Paper 1 & 2 essays Holiday home learning – Practice papers!