ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
An opportunity to resit English GCSE.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
This course is exam based.
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course is ideal for learners who would like the opportunity to resit English GCSE. The resit course will give students a different teaching experience to develop your reading and writing skills. Students will have the opportunity to enter for the November resit dependent upon the quality of work in the first few weeks of the academic year.
Students will be challenged to achieve at least a grade 4.
WHO IS
THIS AIMED AT?
This course is aimed at students who:
Would like to know how language works
Read and analyse non-fiction; (e.g. newspapers, biographies, blogs, magazines etc)
Are interested in why people speak the way they do
Love to write non-fiction (journalism, etc) and or fiction texts (short stories, dramatic monologues etc).
COURSE AREA LEAD
David Green
Core Units:
Analysing a whole range of spoken, written and multi-modal texts (eg. newspaper articles, blogs, etc)
Apply a range of language theorists to spoken and written data
Exploring how contextual factors (age, gender, ethnicity, media, technology, religion, culture, etc) affect language choices
Child language acquisition in speaking, reading and writing.
Language and identity
Language change from circa 1550 to the present day.