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08 ADVANCED ENGLISH (08EAE1)

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The Course:

The focus of Year 8 Advanced English is to provide a pathway for high achieving English students and to prepare you for future English years. You will work on reading a range of texts to understand, appreciate and analyse the ways texts are constructed and interpreted. You will develop competence and confidence in creating written, oral and multimodal texts, with a particular focus on how language positions the audience. Writing will focus on completing a range of sustained texts. Reading will include responding to contemporary and classical narratives, as well as media and electronic texts.

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Special considerations

Students must be recommended for this subject.

Costs involved

  • Incursion / Excursion approx $15.00
  • Extra Curricular Writing Programs approx. $10.00

Materials required

Novels as per booklist

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