Scotch College

ENGLISH Year 10 — 2010

Rationale

The main purpose of the course is to prepare students for confident and competent study of senior English. The course also aims to build on junior English skills in the main areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Student Outcomes

• Develop careful and discerning listening skills.
• Become more confident and competent speakers in a range of contexts.
• Write for a range of purposes, audiences, genres and forms.
• Respond analytically and creatively to a range of texts
• Develop various literacy skills of written expression.
• Develop reading skills through exposure to a range of core and elective texts.
• Develop an awareness of the use and effect of language.

Course Content

Reading

Texts: Students are expected to gain an understanding of the writer’s intention, themes and characterisation. Students will learn how to respond to literature through the essay form, active listening and various types of class discussion.

Poetry: Students are expected to gain a more detailed knowledge of poetic form and genre and to be able to link ideas and themes with other literary concepts and texts.

Wide Reading: Students are expected to read books by different authors and in different styles or genres; for example, novels, periodicals and non-print texts.

Writing: Students will be expected to identify broad categories of writing known as personal/imaginative, informative/instructional and argumentative/persuasive. Students will learn how to plan properly, draft and proofread essays. Students will be expected to respond both analytically and creatively to literary texts: novels, plays and poetry. The skills for writing an application and preparing a CV are also taught.

Speaking and Listening: Students are expected to follow and contribute to discussion; listen attentively and disagree with, as well as respect, other point(s) of view; contribute to group decision and reasoned arguments in structured discussion; and complete at least one individual oral presentation each semester.

ICT Skills

Students will research a current issue via the Internet in the library. Using PowerPoint, students will organise an audio-visual presentation of this issue. Students will produce a newspaper format or play program on Macbeth.

Assessment

• Analytical Writing
• Creative Writing
• Listening and Speaking
• Examination