Students at Year 10 level will build on their existing skills as described in the Year 9 English course.
They will also be encouraged to develop more complex skills, such as those necessary to acquire insight into how language is used by authors for different purposes.
The course aims to build confidence within students in their ability to plan and organise themselves effectively in order to develop the writing and analytical skills required to tackle VCE English.
In Year 10, students will continue to develop skills required for the study of persuasive language in VCE. This includes engaging with a range of persuasive texts. Practise in critical and logical thought will be linked to a variety of current issues and students will also develop and present personal points of view orally. They will be introduced to skills associated with all areas of study required in VCE. Students will also be introduced to personal response writing in essay form. This encourages students to make connections between events in everyday life with key moments and ideas in a text. These connections can be personal, local, national or international. There are also opportunities for students to further refine and extend their analytical text response writing and their ability to craft texts for a specific purpose and audience.
Students will be given every opportunity to write extensively in a variety of modes and to focus on the enhancement of oral, aural and critical skills.
Assessment is continuous.
Formal assessment tasks include:
writing an analytical response to text
crafting texts for a specific context and audience
constructing a sustained and reasoned point of view on an issue currently debated in the Australian media in a persuasive oral presentation
analysing argument as well as persuasive written and visual with a text.
writing a personal response essay
Students will also complete a written examination at the end of Semesters 1 and 2.
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