Responding to Texts

Students explore the human experience and the world through reading and examining a range of texts, including Australian texts, and making intertextual connections. In doing so, students come to understand connections between purpose, audience, and context, and how these are achieved through language and stylistic choices. Students demonstrate their understanding of these links by producing, for example, an analytical essay, article, blog, website, documentary, or special features film (behind the scenes about the making of a film), or an oral reflection on language and stylistic features chosen to create a text.

Students consider the impact and influence of language features (e.g. sentence structure, punctuation, figurative language) and stylistic features (e.g. tone, imagery, layout, nominalisation, analogies, juxtaposition).

Students analyse the ideas, perspectives, and influences expressed in texts and how these shape their own and others’ ideas and perspectives.

This year you'll be completing 3 or 4 text responses.