Year+11

Welcome to the Year 11 Page. Here you will find programmes, teaching resources and articles to support teachers.


 * 2014**

Maestro- Close Study of Text [|Maestro Page] [|HSC Online site] [|Harper Collins Teachers' Guide] [|Insight Study Guide] [|Another study guide] [|Mel McGuiness' notes on Maestro]

The first unit of the year is the Area of Study: Change. This unit is common to both Standard and Advanced.

Program

Assessment schedule

Teaching Resources

The poem, sample paragraphs (unmarked), sample paragraph (annotated)

Annotated poem- Students could be encouraged to annotate their own copy of the poem

Cats in the Cradle lyrics- works well with "My Father Began as a God" In the Living Years lyrics- works well with "My Father Began as a God" Powerpoint on basic techniques of The Door (designed for Standard)

[|Media That Matters Festival: Short films that inspire action]

Link to Apple's 1997 [|Think Different advertisement]

Link to Powderfinger's [|How far have we really come?]

Get Up Mob's [|From Little Things Big Things Grow]

UNIT TWO ENGLISH STANDARD CLOSE STUDY OF TEXT: RAW

Rationale:

Focus Outcomes:

Essential Questions:

Program:

Teaching resources: An editorial by Adele Horin about Juvenile Detention Listening task - prologue and chapter 1

This is the interview for the Raw assessment task

Link to online[| Google Excel study guide]


 * Unit 3 Conflict: In the Name of the Father**

[|Film analysis guide]

Research task - IRA and Guildfor Four