NCEA Level 2 English
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs D. Northern.
The Level Two English courses are suitable for students who have completed a Level One English course. You will read and study texts with more complexity, using skills of analysis learned in earlier years. All classes will also further develop your ability to plan, write and present your own work for a range of purposes and audiences. Some of these finished pieces may be used for assessment and others form the basis of preparation for external exams.
All Level Two English courses offer the full amount of credits and assessments required for a student to complete University Entrance (UE) Literacy. These particular requirements are five reading and five writing credits. Students who may be thinking about future tertiary study should be thinking about English at Level Two to help improve their chances of success in tertiary study. Auckland University currently requires 17 credits specifically, in Level Two or Three English. Students who intend to continue with further study, should strongly consider continuing at Level Three.
Every course will include a range of internal assessments, as well as external assessments. This range will be personalised where appropriate to meet the interests and needs of individual students. Most students will complete at least 14 credits in internal assessments and be prepared for two of their choice of three, of the external exams. External exams are each worth four credits. This means the average student should complete 22 credits. For more motivated students, more assessments are available.
The achievement standards attached to this course below are an indication of some of the internally and externally assessed standards you will be offered in your course.
Stationery Requirements:
Headphones/earphones suitable for student's device.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
Course Contribution: nil
Recommended Prior Learning
At least 10 Level One English credits. If you do not have these credits, you will need the support of your Level 1 teacher to help you with your choice as our Level Two Literacy Development course may suit your needs more appropriately.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Stationery Requirements: 1 x 1B4, headphones/earphones
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
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English 2.1 - Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence
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English 2.2 - Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied visual or oral text(s), supported by evidence
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English 2.3 - Analyse significant aspects of unfamiliar written text(s) through close reading, supported by evidence
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English 2.4 - Produce a selection of crafted and controlled writing
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English 2.7 - Analyse significant connections across texts, supported by evidence
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English 2.8 - Use information literacy skills to form developed conclusion(s)
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English 2.9 - Form developed personal responses to independently read texts, supported by evidence
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English 2.10 - Analyse aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, supported by evidence
Disclaimer
Standards shown on courses are only an indication and not all may be offered at the time of study.