Year 10 English - Semester 2

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Year 10 English students will develop their understanding of the three interrelated Strands of: Literature, Language and Literacy. The focus is on developing student knowledge, understanding and skills in: reading, writing, viewing, speaking, listening and creating. 

Year 10 English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years and will be revisited and strengthened as needed.  Students are also taught strategies for further developing grammar, spelling and punctuation, and clarity of ideas. A specific focus on the development of language features and stylistics devices will extend their thinking and understanding of how and why texts are created for specific purposes.

Students are exposed to a range of modes of presentation (written, oral and multimodal) and explore a variety of text types. 

Topics may include

• Persuasive writing
• Perspectives in Australian short stories
• Shakespeare (Romeo and Luilet) film analysis
• Transformative/creative texts