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General English (10)

Short Literacy Course (10)

Unit Title

Perspectives On People

Exploring The Speculative

What We Stay Alive For

Workplace Contexts

What are we learning this term?

Students are engaging with diverse texts to explore how influential individuals and the concepts of heroes and villains are portrayed, examining their characteristics and global impact.

Students will explore speculative fiction to understand how authors reflect societal values and convey complex themes through narrative techniques in their chosen novel.

Students will explore the concept of humanity through the film Dead Poets Society and related poetry, analysing how characters and ideas are represented and evolve.

Students will develop essential reading, writing, and oral communication skills within various workplace contexts, learning to interpret and create different work-related text types.

What is the assessment task?

Students will write a persuasive news article for "Famous Australian Personalities" magazine, arguing whether Ned Kelly was a hero or a villain.

Students will construct an analytical essay examining how a significant concept is represented in their class novel, focusing on the author's use of literary features to influence the audience.

Students will create a character monologue, accompanied by a multimodal element, reflecting on a character's journey of understanding humanity and their future beyond the film's conclusion.

Students will create a "how-to" training vlog or video, demonstrating their ability to clearly explain a work-related or recreational task.

Why does learning this matter?

This learning equips our students to critically analyse different perspectives, understand how narratives shape public opinion, and effectively use language to persuade and influence.

This learning empowers our students to critically interpret complex texts, understand how literature comments on real-world issues, and effectively communicate their analytical insights.

This learning encourages our students to deeply understand human experiences, interpret complex themes in film and poetry, and creatively express their insights.

This learning provides practical, real-world literacy skills vital for navigating employment, training, and everyday life, empowering our students to confidently communicate in professional and personal settings.

Why undertake shared reading at home?

Shared reading at home involves parents/ guardians and their child regularly engaging with a book together. Reading aloud with your child builds language development so that by the time children have mastered letter-sound correspondences and can read increasingly complex texts themselves, they will have the language skills to understand what they read. Having strong oral language skills sets the foundations for children to build strong literacy skills.

What does shared reading look like?

●     An important aspect of shared reading is the conversation

●     Pausing while reading to discuss aspects of what you are reading builds oral language skills

●     By doing this, you are exposing your child to new and sophisticated words and sentences they may not hear or use in everyday talk