Unit 3/4 English

Mr McDonald

“The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too

high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and

achieving our mark.”– Michelangelo

Year 12 is a CHALLENGE. It is designed to TEST you. It takes CONSISTENT work.You WILL get OUT what you put IN.

Do you want to SUCCEED?

Year 12 English

Persuasive

Oral

Presentation

READING AND

RESPONDING:

All About

Eve

READING AND

RESPONDING:

Stasiland

CREATING AND

PRESENTING:

Every Man in

this Village is

a Liar

CREATING AND

PRESENTING:

Life of

Galileo

Using

Language

to

Persuade

Unit 3

25%Exam

50%Unit 4

25%

The Assessment

4 SACS

Oral Presentation: 20%All About Eve: 30%Language Analysis: 20%Life of Galileo: 30%

2 SACS

Every Man in this Village is a Liar: 50%

Stasiland: 50%

Wednesday 26th

October 2016

Each area of study lasts for approximately 6 weeks (except for Life of Galileo, which is a bit shorter).

Each study is immediately followed by a SAC.

This is a short period of time. You need to come with an understanding of the text.

Reading a text before we begin study it is NOT optional. It MUST be done.

Reading a text only once before studying it is a VERY bad idea.

Your aim is to produce one piece of writing per week in addition to any set homework.

The Study

All About Eve

Written and Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz

This 1950 American drama film is a witty, biting script that is a “deliciously bitchy story about backstage betrayal” and the clash of ambition and talent.

Reading and Responding

All About Eve

This is our first text study. It begins term 1 week 1.

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Watch it!

Reading and Responding

Encountering Conflict

Creating and Presenting

Term 11

All About Eve English SAC – Unit 3 Outcome 3.2 Oral Presentation

Presenting from Wednesday 27 January

2All About Eve

3All About Eve

4All About Eve

5All About Eve

6All About Eve ALL ABOUT EVE MOCK SAC

7All About Eve

8Language Analysis English SAC Unit 3 Outcome 1 All About Eve Text Response

Tuesday 15 March (KWC)

9

Language Analysis

What’s coming up?

PERSUASIVE ORAL PRESENTATION

Housekeeping Everyone must be prepared to present on

January 27 – the first week of term 1

Topic and plans must be complete before the end of transition.

Your holiday homework is to research, write and rehearse your speech. It must be

ready by the start of term 1.

What is the Persuasive Oral?A 5 to 7 minute speech

Must be on an issue that has been in the Australian media since September 2015

It must be persuasive and researched

No technology or props may be used

What are you aiming for? The ability to present complex ideas in a

sustained, coherent and logical argument.

Skilful use of highly appropriate oral language conventions to engage an audience.

Accurate and detailed acknowledgement of sources where appropriate.

Remember the structure...

Remember your purpose...

Step 3: STATE YOUR FIRST ARGUMENTExplain and substantiate your argument, and use persuasive techniques…

Step 1: OPEN WITH A HOOKThis could be an anecdote, interesting fact or rhetorical questions that grab our attention…

Step 2: MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR TOPIC AND POSITIONYou should also provide a summary of what your three arguments will be…

Step 4: STATE YOUR SECOND ARGUMENTExplain and substantiate your argument, and use persuasive techniques…

Step 5: STATE YOUR THIRD ARGUMENTExplain and substantiate your argument, and use persuasive techniques…

Step 7: CONCLUDE YOUR SPEECH WITH A CALL-TO-ACTIONThis should be the ‘message’ of your speech. Have a powerful ending…

Step 6: STATE AT LEAST ONE COUNTER-ARGUMENTRebut this argument by identifying any flaws in logic, relevance, evidence or proportionality…

What is an

ISSUE?What is a _

CONTENTION?

Remember: Your issue must have been debated in the

Australian media since September 2015.

This is a relatively short speech, so don’t pick a broad topic. Focus your argument.

Don’t become descriptive: you need to advocate for something. Focus on the issue, not the event.

• Hyper-masculinity and ‘lad culture’

• Domestic violence*

• Violence against women

• Gender equality*

• Representation of women in corporations

• Legalisation/availability of alcohol

• Base-line sentencing

• Availability of parole for violent offenders

• University fees, funding and/or regulation

• Anti-bike gang laws

• Pornography and body image

• Gender pay gap

• Drugs in sport*

• Racism in sport

Some examples of topics...• Australia’s foreign military intervention*

• Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers

• Fertility treatments and egg-freezing

• Racism in Australia*

• Euthanasia and the ‘right to die’

• Medicinal marijuana

• Shark culling

• Puppy farms

• Dredging of the Great Barrier Reef

• Climate Change and drought*

• Restricting elderly drivers

• Gambling advertisements in sports

• Counter-terrorism laws in Australia

• Fracking in rural areas

For next class:1. Bring in a copy of your end-of-year

English exam and feedback (photocopies are fine).

2. Decide upon a topic for your oral.

3. Re-familiarise yourself with all materials from this year’s oral presentation (these can be found on STL Link).

“Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your problems and work on addressing them instead.” (Celestine Chua)

“The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” (Michelangelo)

“To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” (Jim Rohn)

“The greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.” (Unknown)

“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” (Sumner Redstone Chairman)

“A year from now you’ll wish you had started today.”

(Karen Lamb)

“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.” (William J. Bennett)

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.” (George Orwell)

“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” (Oprah Winfrey)

What will your mantra be?

“Nothing in this world that is worth having comes easy.” (Dr. Kelso)

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