ENGLISH DOMAIN
Hannah Banks
English Instructional Leader
English is important for helping you appreciate diversity, develop sensitivity and, perhaps most importantly, contribute to your future by crafting your writing and critical thinking.
In the English Domain, we foster an appreciation for a wide variety of texts and empower you to develop your own interpretations of the texts we study. You interpret, create, evaluate, discuss and perform a wide range of literary texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These include various types of media texts, including newspapers, film and digital texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, dramatic performances and many others.
Students complete English as a compulsory part of their VCE Studies. VCE English Language and VCE English Literature are offered as extension options via an application and interview process. Successful students can choose to replace Core English with English Language/Literature or complete it in addition to Core English.
10 English
- Analyse written and visual texts.
- Make links between character development, themes and social context.
- Provides opportunities for students to write in a variety of forms, including creatively
Subject Code: P2EEN
Year Level: 10
What will I learn?
In Year 10 English, students experience learning in a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts, including local and global contexts. Students will engage with a variety of different texts for enjoyment. Through this, they will develop a critical understanding of the contemporary media and the difference between media texts. Literary texts that support and extend students will be drawn from a range of genres and will explore increasingly complex themes. Text structures will also be more complex with hybrid structures that serve many purposes. Texts studied will consider a variety of perspectives in a variety of settings – both fictional and real-world. Students will be exposed to and apply a wider and more sophisticated vocabulary, including technical language, figurative and rhetorical language and dense information supported by appropriate visuals. Students create a range of imaginative, informative and persuasive types of texts, including narratives, procedures, performances, reports, discussions, literary analyses, transformations of texts and reviews.
Where can this take me?
VCE Subjects: VCE English (although a student may choose VCE English Language or VCE Literature after consultation with their Standard English teacher).
Careers/Jobs: Many university courses require students to have completed VCE English in order to gain entry to the course.
Duration:
Year-long.
10 Extension English
- Aimed at those choosing an advancement English VCE pathway, Extension English promotes deep engagement with a variety of literary texts, including novels, plays and poetry.
- Study the way an author can promote and challenge views and values within texts.
- Consider the way language is put together in complex scenarios to reflect who we are and what we believe.
Subject Code: P2EEX
Year Level: 10
What will I learn?
This class best prepares you for an extension VCE English pathway. In Semester One you will be working through the Year 10 Curriculum with an extension lens. You will focus on a variety of text types and writing genres throughout the semester. These texts are selected based on literary merit and opportunities to think deeply about complex ideas. In Semester Two you will be working through an extension curriculum that introduces the essential skills for VCE English Literature and VCE English Language.
- Discover and analyse novels, plays, poetry and films
- Engage with not only the character and plot but think about the bigger ideas and understand the way authors use language to position readers to think and feel a certain way
- Write text response essays, argument analysis essays, persuasive and creative responses
Where can this take me?
VCE Subjects: VCE English, VCE English Language, VCE Literature.
Careers/Jobs: Many university courses require students to have completed VCE English in order to gain entry to the course.
Duration:
Year-long.
10 Intensive English (EAL students only)
- Participate in a personalised program to develop your English skills
- Learn more about Australian history and culture through reading Australian stories as a class
- Work on the sounds and spelling patterns of English to help in all of your classes
Subject Code: P2EIE
Year Level: 10
What will I learn?
This class learns how to improve your speaking and listening skills through different games and activities. You will learn reading and writing skills in English through the study of different texts and how to write for everyday and academic purposes.
This class is for English as an additional Language (EAL) students who need further instruction in English to access the mainstream curriculum. You receive 3 English lessons per week in reading, writing, speaking and listening. You are assessed against the EAL curriculum.
What will I do?
- Learn about Australian history and culture through the study of different texts
- Visit local places to learn about your local environment and community and to assist with the study of particular texts
Where can this take me?
VCE Subjects: Continued Intensive English lessons, VCE English, VCE EAL English, VCE VM Literacy or VPC Literacy.
Duration:
Year-long.
Prerequisites:
For students who have recently resettled in Australia.
This is not a subject that can be “chosen”. Students are selected by the EAL Coordinator, Megan Salter.
10 Literacy
- Focus primarily on English skills that could help in future employment or study after leaving school
- Improving communication skills, promoting students leaving the college with functional literacy skills
- Improve grammar basics, spelling and sentence structure
IMPORTANT: This subject leads to a VCE VM pathway which does not provide an ATAR
Subject Code: P2ELT
Year Level: 10
What will I learn?
Ideal for anyone thinking that the VCE pathway in Year 11 and 12 might not be for them yet wish to keep developing their English and literacy skills. You will develop and improve technical aspects of your writing through grammar basics, spelling and sentence structure which will get you ready for life after school. Lesson’s will focus on practical literacy skills that can be applied to a range of ‘real world’ contexts with a clear focus on communication.
What will I do?
- Read and discuss a variety of texts, including one substantial text
- Create a range of different texts including one extended piece
- Learn about the way that language can be used to persuade and manipulate readers and viewers
- Learn how to communicate in a range of different settings (both verbally and in writing)
Where can this take me?
Subjects: VCE VM Literacy or VPC Literacy.
Careers/Jobs: literacy is not only about reading and writing, but it's also to help people understand the complexity of the world and life in general. Literacy skills are invaluable in most career and job pathways. Improved literacy skills allows us to advocate for ourselves and access the world around us.
Duration:
Year-long.