YEAR 10 ENGLISH

Year 10 General

The Year 10 General English course aims to consolidate and build on the literacy skills students have developed in Year 9.

More specifically, it is designed to build students' knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating.

By engagement with a range of text types (fiction, non-fiction, print, visual and multi-modal) students will have opportunities to refine their capacity to read and interpret texts in increasingly in-depth and sophisticated ways. As part of this process, they not only work to comprehend meanings in a text but to also appreciate how the deliberate construction and use of generic conventions within a text is a response to context, intended audience and purpose.

In the Year 10 course students will further their interrogation how texts may offer representations of societal groups, places and events while opening windows into the historical and cultural contexts to which they are linked. They will also commence study of how different perspectives and voices may be embodied in and communicated through a variety of texts.

Students will through modelling and active learning strategies be given support to create imaginative, analytical and persuasive texts that raise issues, offer interpretations and advance opinions. To enhance the quality of their work they will continue to build confidence and control in using deliberate language and textual choices, including the leveraging of digital technologies to achieve their purpose.

Assessments are strategically devised to ensure students may draw on both critical (analytical) and creative thinking strategies to enjoy suitable growth and success.

Text types include:

• Literature (novels, Australian plays)

• Informative/interpretative (biography, autobiography)

• Persuasive (panel discussions, speeches, argument, debates, opinion pieces, editorials)

• Media (picture books, feature film)

Year 10 Extension

Participation in the Year 10 Extension English course is determined by a HOLA administered selection process. It aims to consolidate and extend the formidable literacy skills students have demonstrated in Year 9.

By engagement with a range of text types (fiction, non-fiction, print, visual and multi-modal) students will have opportunities to refine their capacity to read and interpret texts in increasingly in-depth and sophisticated ways.

In the Year 10 Extension course students will interrogate how texts may offer representations of societal groups, places and events while opening windows into the historical and cultural contexts to which they are linked. They will also commence study of how texts may support and/or challenge particular ideological perspectives and the dominant values, attitudes and beliefs that underpin them.

In this endeavour there will be rigorous examination of the analytical skills required to enjoy success in both the ATAR Literature and English programs in Year 11 and 12.

Students will through modelling and active learning strategies be given support to create imaginative, analytical and persuasive texts that raise issues and offer reasoned interpretation and analysis. To enhance the quality of their work they will continue to build confidence and control in using deliberate language and textual choices, including the leveraging of digital technologies to achieve their purpose.

Assessments are strategically devised to ensure students may draw on both critical (analytical) and creative thinking strategies to enjoy suitable growth and success.

Text types include:

• Literature (novels, Shakespearian drama, poetry)

• Informative/interpretative (satirical essays)

• Media (feature film, cartoons)