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    La Salle College
    Language across the Curriculum Programme Outline Form 2
    2024-2025

    1. Course Aims & Objectives


    ■ To help students read and write academic English
    ■ To build students’ research and study skills
    ■ To improve students’ visual literacy

    2. Curriculum Structure of Form 2 LAC


    ● Number of Lessons/ Cycle: 2 lessons
    ● The medium of instruction is English at all levels

    3. Course Outline
    List of topics Knowledge and Skills Covered
    Term 1
    Lesson Revision ● Revise note taking skills and graphic organizers
    1 ● Address problems students encountered last year
    ● Revise PEEL paragraph structure
    Lessons Infographics ● Introduction to infographics
    2-4 ● Practise reading infographics
    ● Learn how to synthesize information to create an infographic using
    Canva
    Lessons Summarizing & ● Learn the difference between a summary and a paraphrase
    5-6 Paraphrasing ● Practise summarizing and paraphrasing
    ● Learn how to avoid plagiarism
    Lessons Linking ● Build on adverbials knowledge from F.1
    7-8 Adverbials and ● Explore more in-depth usage for different rhetorical functions
    Graphic ● Create a graphic organizer
    Organizers ● Present designs
    Lessons Rhetorical ● Identify common rhetorical functions in academic writing
    9-10 Functions in ● Analyze the purpose of sentences in a text
    Academic Writing
    Lessons Reading Across ● Look for suitable reading passage related to assigned topic
    11-13 the Curriculum ● Highlight main points
    ● Present findings
    Lessons Exam Strategies ● Revise RACE answering method
    14-15 ● Revise PEEL paragraphs
    ● Review exam instructions
    Term 2
    Lessons Academic Writing ● Explore more in-depth ways of using academic vocabulary
    16-17 ● Learn how to write more sophisticated grammatical structures
    Lesson Hedging ● Introduction to hedging and why it is used in academic writing
    18 ● Learn useful language to add hedging to writing
    ● Apply hedging language to write more academic writing
    Lessons Writing AI ● Brainstorm best methods for writing prompts
    19-20 Prompts ● Learn techniques to use AI more effectively
    ● Investigate different Bots to see what they excel at
    Lessons Media Literacy ● Revise the CRAAP test
    21-22
    2

    ● Learn how to check sources to ensure the research information is


    authentic via reverse image search, lateral reading, and critical
    observation
    Lessons Research Skills ● Learn how to organize and synthesize information found from
    23-26 and Reading various sources
    Across the ● Evaluate information based on research topic / hypothesis
    Curriculum ● Present research findings
    Lesson Visual Literacy ● Introduction to visual literacy
    27-29 (Cartoons) ● Understand how to read cartoons to find different levels of meaning
    using caricatures, points of view, cliches, etc.
    ● Explore how social issues / historical events are represented
    3

    4. Assessment
    4.1 Continuous Assessment
    First Term
    Date Components Assessment Criteria Format SBA Weighting
    September Individual work Neatness and presentation, information Creating an infographic using Canva 6.66 marks
    included, thoroughness

    October Online Quiz Completion of work, applying concepts from Google Form 6.66 marks
    lesson
    November Individual work Completion of work, applying concepts from Creating a graphic organizer and 6.66 marks
    lesson and presenting work presentation skills

    Second Term
    Date Components Assessment Criteria Format SBA Weighting
    February Online Quiz Completion of work, applying concepts from Class-based activity: Kahoot 6.66 marks
    lesson

    March Online Activity Completion of work, applying concepts from Class-based AI activity 6.66 marks
    lesson
    April Group work Completion of work, applying concepts from Researching topic and group presentation 6.66 marks
    lesson skills

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