Year 10 English
Year 10 English
In Year 10, students discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select, vary and experiment with language features including rhetorical and literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice.
Subject Type: Compulsory
Length: Full Year: Two semesters
Contact Person: English Learning Area Leader: Stephen Summers - stephen.summers@stcolumba.sa.edu.au
Further Reading: Australian Curriculum - Year 10 English
Topic Overview
- Recounts that Zing and Sing
- Novel Study
- Film Study
- Persuasion- Resolving life matters
- Examination: Semester 1-Persuasion; Semester 2-Short Literary Texts
- Drama: Romeo and Juliet
- The poetry of love
- Transformative texts- An excerpt from Romeo and Juliet
- Comparing Short texts
Assessment Overview
Creating Text
- A vividly descriptive recount
- A persuasive oral speech
- Construction of two original Love poems, with accompanying writer’s statement
- Transformative writing: Transforming an excerpt from the play
Responding to Text
- A text response essay from a choice of questions in response to the shared novel
- An Analytical essay in response to the shared film
- A text response essay analysing the representations of love in Romeo and Juliet
- A comparison essay on how two different texts present a critical issue.