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Mastering Higher English: Comprehensive Course Overview and Assessments

Explore Higher English course components including listening, talking, reading, and writing. Prepare for unit assessments, NQ folio submissions, prelims, and SQA examinations. Enhance analysis, evaluation, and creation skills through detailed study of written and spoken texts. Course assessment includes external examination papers focusing on reading comprehension, critical reading, Scottish set texts, and writing tasks. Progress from National 5 with deeper analysis and comparison of passages. Develop critical essay writing and engage with diverse genres. Demonstrate creative and discursive writing proficiency in SQA Writing Folio. Get ready for success with structured learning and evaluation. Questions? Feel free to ask!

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Mastering Higher English: Comprehensive Course Overview and Assessments

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  1. Welcome to HIGHER ENGLISH

  2. HIGHER An Overview

  3. Course Components Listening, Talking, Reading and Writing (Unit assessments) NQ Folio (two pieces) Prelims Final SQA examination

  4. Unit assessments • Analysis and Evaluation • Detailed study of written and spoken texts. • Listening and Reading assessments. • Creation and Production • Create pieces of writing. • Talking and Writing assessments. • PASS/FAIL assessment by class teacher.

  5. Course assessment • External Examination • Paper I • Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (30%) • Paper II: Critical Reading • One Critical Essay (20%) • Scottish Set Texts (20%)

  6. Course assessment • External Examination • Paper I The step up from National 5 is that once you have answered questions on the first passage there is a second passage. At this level, you will be asked to identify similarities and/or differences in the main ideas between Passage I and Passage II. • 1 hour 30 minutes

  7. Course assessment • External Examination • Paper II • Set Scottish texts (comparison question is worth 10 marks at Higher) • One critical essay based on a text studied in class (different genre from set texts) • 1 hour 45 minutes

  8. Course assessment • SQA Writing Folio • One broadly creative piece. • One broadly discursive piece. • Externally assessed (30%)

  9. ANY QUESTIONS?

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