Subject description
The study of English requires students to engage with a variety of texts to interpret, create, evaluate and discuss meaning in a wide variety contexts. These include literary texts and various types of media texts, films, poems, novels and plays. Abstract themes and issues are explored through higher order reasoning, critical analysis, and creative expression.
Out of class requirements
In an average week, students will need to complete 1-2 hours of homework and/or revision of in-class content. During assessment weeks, some class time will be used for drafting and conferencing but students will need to complete additional drafting and prepare their final submission at home.
What’s important for this subject
The Australian Curriculum determines three important strands of knowledge in the study of English:
Language: knowing about the English language.
Literature: understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating literature.
Literacy: expanding the repertoire of English usage.
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Unit 1 - Perspectives in Texts |
Students explore how novels use structure, language, and literary devices to inform, influence and engage readers. They create their own texts, developing ideas with evidence and purpose for different audiences.
| Cultural experiences are explored through literary appreciation.
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Unit 2 - Texts in Culture
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The impact of technology on society is explored through a variety of text types. Students engage with others and analyse multimodal and literary texts for various purposes and audiences. They create written and spoken texts, using structure, language, and literary devices to develop and support ideas.
| Ideas of marginalisation, displacement and belonging will be explored through studying a literary work. Students will produce a narrative photo story that explores an event from a minor character’s perspective.
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Unit 3 - Text Connections
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Students explore how cinematic texts inform, influence and engage audiences by examining context, structure, language, and visual features that shape meaning.
| Students explore the elements of cinematography through film.
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Unit 4 - Literary Texts |
| Cultural experiences are investigated through traditional stories. Students interact with others and create spoken texts to engage and inform, using evidence, language features, and structure to develop and connect ideas. | In this unit, students explore the literary hero, hero’s journey, hero archetypes and qualities of a hero, through various text types.
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