KSC Year 12 ENGLISH 2016
Step-up and Holiday
Homework Booklet
Name: _______________________________________________________
Dear 2016 Year 12 English student,
This is your Step-up and HOLIDAY HOMEWORK booklet.
It contains:
the course outline
SAC dates
Texts for 2016
Background Reading
Holiday Homework tasks
Your texts for 2016 (in the order in which they are studied are):
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Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
Invictus (Film), Clint Eastwood (Director)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler
In The Country Of Men, by Hisham Matar
As Brooklyn, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and In The Country Of
Men are written texts, they must be read by you over the holidays so
you are ready for Term 1.
Note: We DO NOT read the texts in class, it is YOUR
responsibility to come to class prepared with the texts
read.
Please submit your Holiday Homework tasks to your teacher in Week
1 Term 1 2016.
Thank-you and enjoy your holidays!
2016 Year 12 English Assessment Schedule
TERM 1 – Unit 3
Week
Date
Work Requirements
Week 1
Week 2
25/01
01/02
Week 3
Week 4
08/02
15/02
Week 5
Week 6
22/02
29/02
Week 7
07/03
Week 8
14/03
Week 9
21/03
U3O1-R&R: Brooklyn – Holiday Homework due
U3O1 -R&R: Brooklyn – Cultural/Historical/Social background to the text. Characters and themes
and ideas of the text. Metalanguage of text response
U3O1 -R&R: The structures, features and conventions used by the author to create meaning.
U3O1 -R&R: How to construct a Text Response using evidence in your writing/The ways in which a
text is open to different interpretations by different readers/How to come up with your own
interpretation of the text
U3O1 -R&R: Practice SAC and Feedback
SAC Unit 3 Outcome 1 : Reading and Responding - Brooklyn (30 Marks)*
Analyse, in writing, how a selected text constructs meaning, conveys ideas and values, and is open to
a range of interpretations.
U3O3 – LTP: Language Analysis – The structures, features and conventions of a range of text types
constructed for different purposes and audiences/Intended effect on the reader.
U3O3 – LTP: Language Analysis – techniques for the critical analysis of ideas, arguments and
evidence presented in persuasive texts/Strategies and metalanguage for identifying, analysing and
comparing language (written and visual) designed to position
U3O3 – LTP: Language Analysis – Features of a LA (Holistic approach) & Comparative analysis, View
samples of high scoring Las from VCAA website/Holiday LA task
TERM 2 – Unit 3
Week
Date
Week 1
Week 2
11/04
18/4
Week 3
Week 4
25/04
02/05
Week 5
09/05
Week 6
Week 7
16/05
23/05
Week 8
30/05
Week 9
06/06
Week 10
Week 11
13/06
20/06
TERM 3 – Unit 4
Week
Date
Week 1
Week 2
11/07
18/07
Week 3
25/07
Week 4
01/08
Work Requirements
U3O3 – LTP: Language Analysis – Practice Language Analysis in class & Feedback
SAC Unit 3 Outcome 3: Using Language to Persuade (40 Marks)*
Part 1 - Language Analysis (20 Marks)
Analyse the use of language in texts that present a point of view on an issue currently debated in the
Australian media
U3O3 – LTP: POV – Strategies for constructing a sustained, coherent and logical argument
U3O3 – LTP: POV – Presenting an effective POV Speech on a selected issue, Draft of POV and
feedback
SAC Unit 3 Outcome 3:
Part 2 - Oral Response: Point of View (20 Marks)
To construct orally a sustained and reasoned point of view on the selected issue.
U3O2 – C&P Introduction to a Context – Identity and Belonging
U3O2 – C&P How to write on a Context – three genres/The relationship between purpose, form,
language and audience/Invictus – background to the text/Overview of characters and themes
U3O2 – C&P Understanding the issues, themes and arguments presented in the selected text
Bringing in outside material to add depth and breadth
U3O2 – C&P Writing to a prompt – deconstructing a prompt/structuring a response/writing a
Statement of Intention/links to Identity and Belonging
U3O2 – C&P Practice SAC & Feedback
SAC Unit 3 Outcome 2: Creating & Presenting - Invictus (30 Marks)*
Draw on ideas and/or arguments suggested by a chosen Context to create written texts for a
specified audience and purpose; and to discuss and analyse in writing their decisions about form,
purpose, language, audience and context.
Work Requirements
U4O2 – C&P: Background and Context to SOTSD/Overview of characters and themes
U4O2 – C&P: Understanding the issues, themes and arguments presented in the selected text
Bringing in outside material to add depth and breadth
U4O2 – C&P: How to write on a Context – three genres/The relationship between purpose, form,
language and audience/SOTSD
U4O2 – C&P: Structuring a response. Practice SAC
Week 5
18/08
Week 6
15/08
Week 7
22/08
Week 8
29/08
Week 9
Week 10
05/09
12/09
SAC Unit 4 Outcome 2: Context – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (50 Marks)*
Draw on ideas and/or arguments suggested by a chosen Context to create written texts for a
specified audience and purpose; and to discuss and analyse in writing their decisions about form,
purpose, language, audience and context.
U4O1 – R&R: Background to the text – social and political context of the novel/An understanding of
the ides characters and themes constructed by the author and presented in the text/The structures,
features and conventions used by the author to construct meaning
U4O1 – R&R: As above/Analyse the ways in which authors express or imply a point of view of
values/Sentence starters – improving your writing.
U4O1 – R&R: How to develop a sustained, interpretive point of view on the text, supported by
detailed textual analysis/Deconstructing a prompt
U4O1 – R&R: Practice SAC
SAC Unit 4 Outcome 1: Text Response – In The Country Of Men (50 Marks)*
Develop and justify a detailed interpretation of a selected text.
TERM 4
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
03/10
10/10
17/10
24/10
Revision – Reading and Responding and Creating and Presenting
Revision – Analysis of Language
Revision - Creating and Presenting
Week of the Exam
*Absence during SAC session will result in a mark of ‘0’ for the Outcome unless a medical certificate is provided.