Prerequisites

65 % in Year 10 General English and achievement of OLNA Reading and Writing.              

Aim of Course

This course will be designed for Year 11 students who wish to do Murdoch Flexitrack in Year 12.

The Literature General course presents many perspectives on life, powerfully imagined and memorably expressed. One of the main benefits of literary study, particularly in a multicultural and diverse society such as Australia, is exposure to a variety of ways of thinking about the world. This Literature General course encourages students to relate their experience of literature to their experience of life generally and to learn that ways of reading texts and their readings of texts can enrich their understanding of identity, culture and society. Students are given the opportunity to read, enjoy and respond to literary texts, including poetry, prose fiction, drama and multimodal texts.

Description of Course

Year 11

  • Unit 1: Literary conventions

  • Unit 2: Representations in texts

Year 12

  • Unit 3: Context

  • Unit 4: Values and attitudes

More detailed course info can be found HERE.

ASSESSMENT FOR YEAR 11 (INCLUDES EST IN YEAR 12)

Extended written response: 10%

Short written response: 30–40%

Creative production: 30–40%

Oral: 10–20%