Year 13 English
The Year 13ENG course is a mixture of internal and external assessments. You will study a range of texts leading to Creative Writing, a Seminar Presentation, and you own Literature Investigation. As well as these assessments, you will also sit Written Text, Visual Text, and Unfamiliar Text exams at the end of the year.
DisconnectFollow the link to access resources and film clips on Henry Alex-Rubin's 2015 film, Disconnect. A drama centred on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world, themes such as the impact of technology, social relationships, isolation, family and love are explored.
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American Beauty
Follow the link to access resources on Sam Mendes' 1999 Oscar-winning film, American Beauty. Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.
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Grace Taylor - Spoken Word PoetryGrace Teuila Evelyn Taylor (c.1984 - ) is a New Zealand poet and performer. Taylor is of English and Samoan heritage. She was born in about 1984 in South Auckland and refers to herself as "Afakasi" which is a 1930s Samoan word for someone of mixed heritage.
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Seminar Presentations
Follow the link to access a range of materials to aid you in composing your own visual/oral presentation. There are videos of famous and effective speeches where you can see rhetorical devices in action.
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Road to PerditionRoad to Perdition is Sam Mendes' 2002 film set in 1930s America, and follows a mob enforcer and his son as they seek vengeance for the murder of their family. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig.
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Alan Bennett - Talking HeadsTalking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC Television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. You will study them as part of your Written Text Analysis for the External Examination, and as preparation for your own Extended Writing Internal Assessment Piece.
Follow the link to access material on Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. |
NZQA WebsiteFollow the link to the NZQA Website where you will find past exam questions as well as exemplar essays for all levels of attainment. There are also examiners' reports to tell you what the external markers will be looking for when assessing your essays. Take a look!
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