English ATAR focuses on developing analytical, creative, and critical thinking skills in students. It encourages them to engage with a variety of texts from both Australian and other cultures, as well as texts from within their contemporary world. Engaging in such texts allows students to develop a sense of identity and an understanding of the world, and their place in it.
Explores how meaning is communicated through the relationships between language, text, purpose, context, and audience.
Analyses the representation of ideas, attitudes, and voices in texts to consider how texts represent the world and human experience.
Pre-Requisites
B Grade (Pathway One or Two)
English General focuses on the everyday English required by students to engage competently and confidently in community, further education, and workplace contexts. The syllabus is designed to consolidate, refine, and further develop the language and literacy skills, students require for a wide range of post-secondary pathways.
Focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts.
Focuses on interpreting ideas and arguments in a range of texts and contexts.
Pre-Requisites
Nil
Mr Howard Jennings
HOLA English
Howard.Jennings@cewa.edu.au