Year 10 English
The Year 10 English course develops students’ 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’s ability to meet the requirements of studying English and/or Literature at Years 11 and 12.
Structure
Shout Out
- Deconstruct and analyse a variety of media texts
- Explore how texts position readers and viewers
- Consider social, moral and ethical positions constructed in media texts, particularly in relation to their stereotyping, inclusive and exclusive social effects, and their empowering and disempowering of people.
- Evaluate how structures and language features, purpose and mode of communication may influence audiences’ responses, and how audiences’ evaluations are influenced by their own value systems and contexts.
- The power of language and argument used to construct particular perspectives.
Assessment: Extended response - Persuasive spoken response
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 “based on real events/true story”—often to give them a sense of authenticity and attract audiences—can indeed be read as fiction.
Assessment: Extended response - Written response for a public audience
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.
Assessment: Exam- Imaginative written response
Assessment: Exam - Analytical written response
