Core Subject
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, communicate and build relationships with others and with the world around them.
The Australian Curriculum is used to plan units of work. English aims to ensure that students learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose.
Over Year 9 and Year 10 students engage with a variety of texts. These include various types of media texts, film and digital texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, dramatic performances and multimodal texts, with themes and issues reflected in society, higher order reasoning and intertextual references. These texts explore themes of human experience and cultural significance, interpersonal relationships, and ethical and global dilemmas within real-world and fictional settings and represent a variety of perspectives.
In Year 9 and Year 10 students will complete a range of assessment types and conditions, including extended responses, spoken and/or multimodal responses, short response answers, and supervised exam conditions.