Description
The study of Literature fosters students’ enjoyment and appreciation of the artistic and aesthetic merits of stories and storytelling, and enables students to participate more fully in the cultural conversations that take place around them. By reading and exploring a diverse range of established and emerging literary works, students become increasingly empowered to discuss texts. As both readers and writers, students extend their creativity and high-order thinking to express and develop their critical and creative voices.
Unit Topics
The unit will explore the study of a literary genre or movement looking at how this is presented in both short story format and film. An examination of Australian poetry and a playscript will support students’ capacity to respond both creatively and critically.
Skill Development
- enjoy reading a range of challenging literary texts
- approach unfamiliar texts and negotiate diverse literary territories with confidence
- explore the ways in which author’s craft their writing
- recognise there are many possible ways of interpreting literary texts
- develop their own responses to texts, recognising the impact of form, features and language in the creation of meaning
- write creatively and critically, and develop their individual voice
- consider the views of others, including when developing interpretations
- express their ideas, through all language modes, with insight and flair.
Possible Assessment Tasks
- a close analysis of one or more selected passages
- an essay (comparative or analytical)
- a debate
- reading journal entries
- an in-class seminar
- a creative response to a text(s) studied
- a written review
- a multimedia response
Career Options
Journalists, public relations, lawyer, writer, editor, marketing, publicist, social science, teacher
Year 10