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Unit 1: Reading and Creating Texts/ Analysing and Presenting Argument

Students explore how meaning is created in a text and they identify, discuss and analyse decisions authors have made. They analyse arguments and the use of persuasive language in texts and create their own texts intended to position audiences. Students develop their skills in creating written, spoken and multimodal texts. In this area of study students explore how meaning is created in a text.

Outcome 1: Produce analytical and creative responses to texts

Outcome 2: Analyse how argument and persuasive language can be used to position audiences and create their own text intended to position audiences.

Unit 2: Reading and Comparing Texts/ Analysing and Presenting Argument

Students compare the presentation of ideas, issues and themes in texts. They explore how features of texts, including structures, conventions and language convey ideas, issues and themes that reflect and explore the world and human experiences, including historical and social contexts. Students analyse arguments presented and the use of persuasive language in texts, and they create their own texts intended to position audiences.

Outcome 1: Compare the presentation of ideas, issues and themes in two texts.

Outcome 2: Students should be able to identify and analyse how argument and persuasive language are used in text/s that attempt to influence an audience, and create a text which presents a point of view.

Unit 3: Reading and Creating Texts/ Analysing Argument

Students identify, discuss and analyse how the features of selected texts create meaning and how they influence interpretation. In identifying and analysing explicit and implied ideas and values in texts, students examine the ways in which readers are invited to respond to texts. They develop and justify their own detailed interpretations of texts. Students analyse and compare the use of argument and language in texts that debate a topical issue. Considering information about the purpose, audience and context of a text, students explore the argument of a persuasive piece, and the way written, spoken and visual language is used.

Outcome 1: Produce an analytical interpretation of a selected text, and a creative response to a different selected text.

Outcome 2: Analyse and compare the use of argument and persuasive language in texts that present a point of view on an issue currently debated in the media.

Unit 4: Reading and Comparing Texts/ Presenting Argument

Students explore the meaningful connections between two texts. They analyse texts, including the interplay between character and setting, voice and structure, and how ideas, issues and themes are conveyed. Students build their understanding of the analysis and construction of texts and how these attempt to influence audiences. They create an oral presentation intended to position audiences about an issue currently debated in the media.

Outcome 1: Produce a detailed comparison which analyses how two selected texts present ideas, issues and themes

Outcome 2: Construct a sustained and reasoned point of view on an issue currently debated in the media.