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. From 2025, 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.

9 English

  • Analyse and discuss the ways novels use key themes to reflect ideas shared in wider society
  • Create a variety of written works in different genres, including analytical writing, persuasive writing and creative responses.
  • Look at the way arguments are created and conveyed through contemporary media texts, including both verbal and non-verbal pieces

Subject Code: P1EEN
Year Level: 9

What will I learn?

In Year 9 English, students interact with a variety of audiences in a range of learning environments. They engage with different texts, including both fiction and non-fiction, media, drama, multimedia and poetry in order to interpret, create, evaluate, discuss and perform. Texts selected are chosen from a range of genres and involve complex, challenging, and unpredictable plots. These texts offer themes of human experience and cultural significance, interpersonal relationships, and ethical dilemmas with real-world and fictional settings. 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?

Subjects: Year 10 English, Year 10 Extension English.

Careers/Jobs: Literacy is not only about reading and writing, but it's also about helping people understand the complexity of the world and life in general. Literacy skills are invaluable in most career and job pathways.

Duration:

Year-long.

 

9 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: P1EIE
Year Level: 9

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.