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The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Learning in English is recursive and cumulative, building on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years.
Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They analyse, interpret, evaluate, discuss, create and perform a wide range of texts. Texts may include various types of media texts including film, digital and online texts, novels, non-fiction, poetry, dramatic performances and multimodal texts. Themes and issues may involve levels of abstraction, higher order reasoning and intertextual references. Students develop a critical understanding of how texts, language, and visual and audio features are influenced by context.
Year 10 students create a range of texts whose purposes may be aesthetic, imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
The Year 10 English course focuses on the development of students’ skills in communication, comprehension and higher order critical thinking skills. They demonstrate the development of these skills through Responding to Texts and by Creating Texts.
In Responding to Texts students consider how authors communicate information, ideas, messages and perspectives to impact and influence the reader. They explore the relationship between purpose, audience, context, text structures and language features by engaging with a range of text types, including:
In Creating Texts students create a range of texts by experimenting with language and stylistic features for a range of purposes and audiences. Students will produce responses (in written, oral or multimodal forms) that are intended to:
Students have the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of their learning in Year 10 English through the following assessment types:
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