eng area of study

Area of Study Discovery Duration 6-7 weeks (3 lessons per week) Outcomes Stage 6 3. A student develops language relevant to the study of English. 4. A student describes and analyses the ways language forms and features, and structures of texts shape meaning and influence responses. 6. A student engages with the details of the text in order to respond critically and personally. 9. A student assesses the appropriateness of a range of processes and technologies in the investigation and organisation of information and ideas. 12. A student reflects on own processes of responding and composing. Outcomes/ ContentTeaching Strategies and ActivitiesResourcesAssessmentWeeks 1-2, Introduction to Discovery1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 6.1, 6.3,8.2, 12.1The Teacher will explain that the unit they about to complete is an introduction to the concept of Discovery and the way in which it is represented in and through texts (NSW BOS, HSC Prescriptions 2015-20, English Stage 6, p9). In the next unit students will focus on prescribed texts relating to Discovery. Students will then be shown the following two quotes What is there that confers the noblest delight What is that which swells a mans breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him Discovery To know that you are walking where none others have walked that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea. HYPERLINK http//www.famous-quotes.com/author.phpaid7357Mark Twain Because its there. George Mallory went on to explain, Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of