Year 10 English

Core English Subjects (Year Long)	English Elective Subjects (Semester Based)
Core English	Literature
Enhanced English	Writer's Workshop
English as an Additional Language

Core English

The Year 10 English course is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. It is designed to broaden students' outlook on their world, increasing appreciation and understanding of written forms, multi-modal texts, language features and text structures. In addition, students will examine the Intercultural Capability which assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens.

Students will learn:

To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects.
To refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences. 
To understand how spoken and written language evolves.
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts.
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts.
To reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature.
To create texts for imaginative, informative or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging issues. 
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content.
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts.
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content.

Enhanced English (EA Program Students - Core)

The Year 10 Enhanced Accelerated English course is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. It is designed to broaden and enhance students' outlook on their world, enabling them to create a wide range of texts to articulate complex ideas. Students increase their appreciation and understanding of written forms, multi-modal texts, language features and text structures. In addition, students will examine the Intercultural Capability which assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens.

Students will learn:

To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects.
To refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences. 
To understand how spoken and written language evolves.
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts.
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts.
To reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature.
To create texts for imaginative, informative or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging issues. 
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content.
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts.
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content.
To use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence.

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

The Year 10 English as an Additional Language course is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. It is designed to broaden students' outlook on their world, increasing appreciation and understanding of written forms, multi-modal texts, language features and text structures. Students who study English as an Additional Language have additional opportunities to engage in listening tasks that prepare them for the EAL VCE curriculum. In addition, students will examine the Intercultural Capability which assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens. 

Students will learn:

To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects.
To refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences. 
To understand how spoken and written language evolves.
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts.
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts.
To reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature.
To create texts for imaginative, informative or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging issues. 
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content.
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts.
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content.

Literature

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. This Year 10 elective focuses on Literature and aims to further challenge and extend students who enjoy viewing, reading and writing through a study of classical and contemporary literature texts. 

Students will learn:

To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects
To improve language skills and to discriminate between shades of meaning by including complex and sophisticated vocabulary and other linguistic features
To understand how spoken and written language evolves
To compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media
To understand that people’s evaluations of texts are influenced by their value systems, the context and purpose and mode of communication
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts
To reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature
Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style, ‘voice’ and literary devices for a specific audience and purpose
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content
To analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts
To use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts.

Writer's Workshop

The Year 10 Writers’ Workshop elective is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. It is specifically designed for students to explore and practise different writing styles. 

Students will learn:

To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects.
To refine language choices to discriminate between shades of meaning with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences.
To analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features.
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts.
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts.
To create texts for imaginative and persuasive purposes that reflect upon complex and challenging issues.
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content.