NCEA Level 1 English

Course aims / learning outcomes

• Learn to critically analyse literature and media, connecting them to your world. Explore the power of words and images and recognise how they shape our understanding.

Megan T's Class - Course content

• Term 1: We will focus on the basic building blocks of subject English, in particular, reading and writing skills, and making personal responses to texts. We will also focus on creative writing.
• Term 2: We will continue our focus on writing and complete the writing internal assessment
• Term 3: We will focus on language and how it is specific to and shaped by context. This includes an internal assessment.
• Term 4: Preparation for the two external exams.

Ally's Class - Course content

• Term 1: We will be focusing on developing reading skills, understanding context, and literary features within a chosen novel.
• Term 2: We will continue analysing ideas, themes, and context through different texts and develop our understanding of language and how it is shaped by context. This term will include an internal assessment.
• Term 3: We will focus on building up our pre-existing writing skills and developing new skills over a range of formal and creative lenses. This term will include an internal assessment
• Term 4: Preparation for the two external exams.

Assessment statement

All four of the English external assessments will be offered in this programme. Two of these are internally assessed, completed as assignments, mostly during class time. The other two are external exams scheduled for November.

Authenticity

• Assignments that take place over time will be produced in an online system such as Google Docs. Learning Advisors will monitor student work by accessing document history. A portion of work will need to be completed during class time under Learning Advisor supervision.
• Class tests will take place under supervised test conditions within class.
• Students may be required to sign an authenticity statement, perform certain parts of assessment tasks under close supervision, or show through interview and the existence of notes and supporting material that the work submitted by the student is genuinely his/her own work.

Appeal Procedures

• Students have the right to appeal the mark they have been awarded. If a student wishes to appeal a grade, they should initially talk to the subject learning advisor about the marking process immediately after the marked assessment task is shown to them. If still dissatisfied the student should make an appointment and discuss grades with the Principal’s Nominee who will check that the correct procedures have been followed as outlined in the school and subject policies taking into account any special circumstances.

Table of Assessments