Year 10 English
The Year 10 English course develops students鈥� knowledge and skills across the strands of language, literature and literacy. Throughout the course, students are offered opportunities to create and critically respond to texts, and to engage with a range of literary and non-literary texts.
Pathways
The study of English is mandatory from Year 7 through to Year 12. The understanding and skills developed in Year 10 contribute significantly to a student鈥檚 ability to meet the requirements of studying English and/or Literature at Years 11 and 12.
Structure
Unit 1: Write Right!
- Examine the ways that cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts and invite audiences to take up positions.
- Examine the ways that aesthetic features and stylistic devices can prompt emotional and critical audience responses.
- Create perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in imaginative texts.
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Assessment: Extended response - Imaginative Written Response
Unit 2: Real to Reel
- Investigate the manipulation of the real, physical world into film
- How language, directorial and cinematic choices position and engage audiences.
- Investigate how films that use 鈥渂ased on real events/true story鈥濃�攐ften to give them a sense of authenticity and attract audiences鈥攃an indeed be read as fiction.听
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Assessment: Extended response - Written response for a public audience
Unit 3: Power and Control
- Examine the ways that cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts and invite audiences to take up positions.
- Examine the ways that aesthetic features and stylistic devices can prompt emotional and critical audience responses.
- Use knowledge and understanding of how textual and language features are used in order to create perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in an imaginative text.
- Through a close, critical study of a literary text and various interpretations of it, develop an analytical responses, arguing a position in the form of an analytical essay.
- Participate in discussions about literature, recent events and issues.
- Ask questions, disagree politely utilise effective body language.
Assessment: Exam- Analytical Essay
Assessment: Exam - Interaction
