Study Overview

The subject focuses on developing students’ understanding of how to analyse various texts, exploring given contexts in different genres and text types and developing confidence in presenting to an audience. Students also explore the Craft of Writing and produce a creative text. Students study various texts, one of which is Australian. Throughout the year, students also explore media texts and analyse the language used to persuade different audiences. Units 1 & 2 provide a firm foundation for subsequent studies in English. Students will expand their awareness of the relationship between audience, form and purpose and consolidate their written and verbal skills. Students develop their own responses to these texts from personal engagement through to critical analysis, applying and refining their capacity for inferential reading and viewing as they grapple with many possible levels of meaning that can be extracted by a reader. 

Units

 Unit 1: Reading and Exploring Texts; Crafting Text

  Unit 2: Reading and Exploring Texts; Exploring Argument

 Unit 3: Reading and Responding to Texts; Creating Texts

  Unit 4: Reading and Responding to Texts; Analysing Argument