Transcript English Higher

English Intermediate 2
Student Guide
Course Content:
• The successful student in Intermediate 2
•
English will have achieved outcomes in each of
the component units.
The award of Intermediate 2 English will be
based on a combination of internal and
external assessment. To gain the award you
must achieve a pass in all component units of
the course as well as external assessment.
Course Entry Levels:
• Overall, grade 3 or better at Standard
Grade. Performance in Reading and
Writing should be at least a grade 3.
Unit 1 – Language Study.
Outcome 1 – Close Reading.
• Objective – to
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understand, analyse
and evaluate nonfiction.
Internal Assessment
– you must obtain
50% of the marks to
gain a pass. You must
pass in order to sit
the final exam.
• External Assessment
•
– Paper 1 – Close
Reading.
This is worth 50% of
the total marks
available.
Unit 1: Outcome 2 – Writing.
• Internal Assessment • Expressive –
•
only. A pass must be
achieved before you
can sit the final
exam.
You are required to
compose 1 piece of
writing which is
either expressive,
creative or a report.
•
•
personal reflective,
persuasive or
argumentative.
Creative – piece of
prose fiction,
poem(s) or drama
script.
Report – on agreed
topic.
Unit 2 – Literary Study.
Outcome 1 – Textual Analysis.
• Objective – to
•
respond critically to
unseen imaginative
texts.
Text – will be either
prose, poetry or
drama.
• Internally assessed.
• You must obtain over
50% of the marks in
order to gain a pass.
You must pass this
outcome in order to
sit the final exam.
Unit 2: Outcome 2 – Critical
Essay.
• Objective to
•
respond critically to
imaginative texts
you have studied in
class.
Prose, poetry, drama
or media texts.
• Externally assessed.
• Critical Essay: Paper
•
•
II in the exam.
Choose 2 from
different genres.
Paper II worth 50%
of the marks in the
exam.
Unit 3 – Personal Study.
• Objective – to review critically your own
choice of text.
• Internally assessed under controlled
conditions.
• A pass in this unit must be achieved in
order for you to sit the final exam.
Overview
Unit
Outcome Internal
Assess.
External
Exam
%age of
marks
1: Language
Study
Close Reading
1 x Close
Reading
Paper I
Int 2: 1 hour.
50%
Writing
1 x Writing
Textual
Analysis
1 x Textual
Analysis
Paper II
Int 2: 1 hr 30
minutes.
50%
2: Literary
Study
Critical Essay
3: Personal
Study
Literature
1 x Written
1 hour