English 12

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to explore and reflect at a sophisticated level, to communicate and respond in leadership and support roles across complex situations, and to make critical language and voice choices with sensitivity and respect.

• Asking discriminating questions to evaluate ideas
• Advocating and justifying positions convincingly

• Interacting in leadership and support roles in complex situations
• Adapting language and delivery in complex contexts
• Evaluating verbal and nonverbal elements of powerful communication

• Making critical language choices of tone and style
• Expressing voice or choosing to remain silent

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Reading and viewing complex, sophisticated, and world literary texts; researching and evaluating research processes; responding personally and critically to challenging texts; and analysing issues related to gender-based violence through a variety of texts.

• Experiencing world literary genres and modes
• Constructing meaning in complex and sophisticated texts
• Articulating one's own processes with sophisticated texts

• Researching systematically to meet learning needs
• Evaluating one's own research processes

• Making informed personal responses that explore diverse perspectives
• Justifying points of view and interpreting ambiguities

• Critically evaluating accessed information
• Showing relationships among language, purpose, and audience
• Describing, discussing, and evaluating characteristics of texts
• Examining how texts reveal and produce ideologies and identities
• Examining how media texts construct roles, culture, and reality
• Examining how textual features help create meaning

• Analysing how texts influence perceptions of those impacted
• Reflecting on cultural perspectives and systemic issues
• Analysing authors' responsibility in portrayal
• Evaluating the impact of bystander intervention

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Using writing and other ways of representing to explore and reflect on challenging texts and insights; creating texts that control meaning for complex demands; and using a range of strategies with accurate conventions and skillful crafting.

• Writing to explore insights into challenging texts
• Reconstructing increasingly complex knowledge through notes
• Making effective choices to enhance imaginative writing

• Understanding how construction creates and controls meaning
• Making critical choices for complex purposes and audiences
• Evaluating others' responses to one's work

• Applying the strategies that work for you as a creator
• Using conventions accurately and consistently
• Committing to skillful crafting across a range of work
• Integrating information from many sources to communicate meaning