Big Minglish 2023

This course is a combination of Media Studies and English - you can mix and match pretty much whichever assessments you like from these subjects to best suit your program. A list of Media Studies standards can be found here and English standards here.

Last term we studied the following texts:

• Contact
• Last Contact
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
• I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream
• USS Callister

Students were then invited to complete an assessment based on their studies. They leaned towards completing these standards:

• Script Writing (Med 2.8/3.8) 
• Writing Folio (Eng 2.4/3.4)
• Designing/Making a Short Film (Med 2.5/3.5, Med 2.6/3.6)
• Creating a Visual Text (Eng 2.6/3.6)
• Analysing Film Techniques (Med 2.2/3.2, Eng 2.10/3.9)

This term, it'll be more of the same! Some short stories, some poetry, some film, and maybe even a novella - all sort of sci-fi and geeky and fantasy and thought-provoking, hopefully.

Some things to note:

• We’ll study texts together, then choose an assessment to do based on that text. Not everyone in the class will choose the same assessment. You might be the only one in the room completing a visual text!
• Therefore, you really should have your head around the various NCEA standards before entering this class! This approach is not recommended for those students who require a lot of additional classroom support, but this approach does tend to work well for self-directed students.
• Picking up these assessments at Level 2 is not easy if you haven't done the corresponding assessment at an earlier level! If you haven't done the Level 1 English/Media Studies assessments yet, there's a 'Little Minglish' class in Green, which you could check out instead. 
• Lastly, this is a senior course, so expect mature themes and content! For instance, the class might elect to study an R16 film later in the year: if you were not yet at the appropriate age, you'd have to find another program in this block. 
• The focus of the course will be on internal assessments - students will be welcome to enter Eng 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 or 3.2, but we won't necessarily be spending that much time in class on essay writing techniques. For that reason, I'd recommend using an external study guide to prepare adequately for those assessments.

The Google Classroom code for this course is qezllvo.