Prerequisite Courses
Home Learning
Moderate
Course Description
Students will explore literature, writing, and the ‘Asian experience’, seeking to understand their own lives in the 21st century Hong Kong and beyond. Students will build competence, independence, and confidence in reading, writing, and speaking in a variety of genres and forms, and for a variety of audiences and purposes. The course focuses on the idea of ‘place’, and how it identifies, shapes, and changes literature, experiences, and the self. Students begin the year with personal narrative, and then move on to explore novels, film, short prose, drama, and non-fiction, always recognizing the connection between reading and writing and between strong personal writing and academic writing.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Become independent users of the writing process.
- Comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts.
- Develop a variety of reading strategies.
- Make use of a range of spoken, written and visual language to communicate effectively.
- Apply knowledge of genre, language structure, language conventions (spelling and punctuation), literary devices and media techniques to create, critique and discuss print and non-print texts.
- Participate as informed, reflective, creative and critical members of their community.
- Develop the capacity for active listening.
- Become sensitive, expressive readers.
- Connect literature to life.
- Develop an understanding of the power of writing to transform human experience.
Assessment
Student assessments may include:
- Journal responses
- Timed writing
- Processed written assignments
- Graphic interpretation of text
- Shared inquires
- Found poems
- Teacher/peer/self-assessments
- Presentations and projects (individual and group)
Grades
12
Grading Scheme
Standards-based Course