Aice english language requirements

The Plan (Curriculum)

• Section 1: Introduction to AS level English language

• Section 2: Exploring Text Types will be integrated throughout our study of the other sections.

• Section 3: Reading skills- Directed Response

• Section 4: Reading skills- Text Analysis

• Section 5: Writing skills- Shorter Writing and Reflective Commentary

• Section 6: Writing skills- Extended Writing

• Paper 1 and 2 Review

Ongoing Requirements

• Novel studies

• Grammar Practice

• Guided note taking

• Practice with and review of genre characteristics and linguistic devices

• Sat/Psat preparation

Assessment Objective 1

Read and demonstrate understanding of a wide variety of texts

Assessment Objective 2

Write effectively, creatively, accurately and appropriately, for a range of audience and purposes

Assessment Objective 3

Analyze the ways in which writers and speakers choices of form, structure, and language produce meaning and style

Paper 1

• 2 hours, 15 minutes

• Weight: 50%

• 50 marks

• 2 mandatory sections

Paper 1, Section A: Directed Response

• 4 paragraph comparison

• Read a text of approximately 550-750 words

• 25 and 35 minutes

1a: write a directed response of 150-200 words, choosing vocabulary, style and structure, to fit a specific form, purpose and audience (10 marks), 25 minutes

1b: write a comparison of the form, structure and language of the candidates response in part (a) with that of original text (15 marks), 35 minutes

Paper 1, Section B: Text Analysis

• 8 paragraphs, comment on the form, structure and language

• One hour

• 25 marks

• Read a text of approximately 550-750 words

Paper 2

• 2 hours

• Weight: 50%

• 50 marks

• 2 sections (candidate has some choice)

• Assessment objective: AO2, AO3

Paper 2, Section A: Shorter Writing and Reflective Commentary

1a: Shorter Writing, 35 minutes, 400 words max

• choose vocabulary, style and structure to fit a specific form, purpose and audience

• 15 marks

1b: Reflective Commentary, 6 short paragraphs, 25 minutes

• explain how your linguistics choices have contributed to fulfilling the brief in part a

• 10 marks

Paper 2, Section B: Extended Writing

• 1 hour

• Choose a prompt: imaginative/ descriptive, Discursive/ argumentative, Review/ Critical

• Write 600-900 words

• Express ideas clearly

• Use appropriate range of language

• Write in a manner appropriate to the form, purpose and audience

• 25 marks