What should I already have achieved?
Level 2 English with University Entrance literacy and/or 17 credits.
English Level 3 is a university approved subject
What will I learn in English?
Students will learn to interpret texts and argue critically using literary theories.
To analyse, evaluate and synthesise links between texts and contexts, and how contexts influence ideas/style within texts.
Critically evaluate and synthesise their knowledge of how features of the language are used in different contexts.
Students will communicate sustained and insightful ideas by selecting and integrating a range of appropriate language features purposefully and fluently. Seek feedback, monitor, evaluate, and justify their choices independently.
Critically respond and evaluate, while acknowledging their own perspectives through their responses to various texts. Students will show an insightful understanding of why and how the audience is being positioned, and how a text relates to other texts and contexts, and they will integrate their knowledge of ideas, purpose, language features, and structure.
Develop and sustain an argument to explain and justify interpretations of increasingly varied and complex texts, integrating insightful examples and/or details arising primarily from an independent close reading of the text but also from beyond it.
Evaluate how identity influences and informs personal responses to language and language choices.
Aim for a subject-endorsed certificate in English - 17 credits at Achieved, Merit or Excellence gaining 13 internal credits and 8 credits coming from external assessments.
What will you do?
Level 3 English demands that the students become critically analytical and appreciative of concepts studied within literature and film. Level 3 English is designed to equip students with a range of tools that will prepare them for life at tertiary level. To be successful in this course students need to strive to always achieve their best, approach all experiences in English with an open mind and grow through observation and reflection, be curious and seek to find answers, be creative and innovative and respect everyone's ideas and sharing opinions.
Learn how to critically read a range of written, visual and oral texts such as novels, short stories, articles, poetry and film.
Learn how to write, speak and create texts confidently to express your own ideas.
Learn how to critically evaluate perspectives and ideas in and of texts and demonstrate your understanding of these by creating your own texts.
How will you be assessed?
This course is made up of three internal and two external achievement standards offered in English at NCEA Level 3. The goals within this course are to obtain University Entrance Literacy and to gain at least 17 credits towards achieving Level 3 NCEA. Students are also encouraged to aim for Merit or Excellence subject endorsement in English.