English

Purpose and Structure

The study of English contributes to the development of literate individuals capable of critical and creative thinking, aesthetic appreciation and creativity. This study also develops students’ ability to create and analyse texts, moving from interpretation to reflection and critical analysis. Through engagement with texts from the contemporary world and from the past, and using texts from Australia and from other cultures, students studying English become confident, articulate and critically aware communicators and further develop a sense of themselves, their world and their place within it. English helps equip students for participation in a democratic society and the global community.

Unit 1 

The focus of this unit is on the reading of a range of texts, particularly narrative and persuasive texts, to comprehend, analyse and make personal connections with the ways in which texts are constructed and interpreted. Students will develop competence and confidence in creating written texts. 

Students are required to achieve a range of outcomes, demonstrating the ability to: 

• Read and respond to texts both analytically and personally 

• Craft texts for a specific context and audience.

Unit 2 

The focus of this unit is to develop reading and viewing skills, including deepening their capacity for inferential reading and viewing, to further open possible meanings in a text, and to extend their writing in response to text. Students will develop their skills from Unit 1 through an exploration of a different text type from that studied in Unit 1. 

Students are required to achieve a range of outcomes, demonstrating the ability to: 

• Read and respond to texts both analytically and personally 

• Explore and analyse persuasive texts.

Unit 3 

In this unit students read and respond to texts analytically and personally. They create texts that explore ideas within a framework. 

The key areas of study are: 

• Reading and responding to texts 

• Creating texts in response to a framework of ideas. 

Unit 4 

In this unit students read and analyse explicit and implicit ideas, concerns and values presented in a text. Students analyse persuasive texts and create their own text intended to position audiences about an issue currently debated in the media. 

The key areas of study are: 

• Reading and view to elicit meaning, text dynamics, ideas, concerns and conflicts in a text • Analyse the use of argument and persuasive language in text and develop and present a point of view.