Semester One English will be elective
Semester Two English will be common and will focus on VCE preparation
Proposed 2024 Year 10 Semester One English Electives
- The Writer’s Room
Do you love writing? In this elective, you will learn how to craft, edit and critique your own short fiction and poetry. Reading a range of contemporary poems and stories, hearing from local writers, practising regular creative writing exercises, and participating in workshops, by the end of this semester you will have a polished piece ready for publication.
You will study the significance of journalism and the structure of digital media, furthermore learn the skills necessary to produce newsworthy articles in today's world. You will explore different forms of media to produce an interactive web folio which will hone your writing and editing skills, and showcase your ability to create digital content. You will undertake collaborative projects, which will include interviewing, fact gathering and content creation. You will have lots of journalistic freedom to respond to issues that are important to you and your final web folio will analyse fake news, create content for a specific audience and can be published in our PHSC school magazine.
- The Literary Canon - (Mini Lit elective) / Literature through the ages / Literary movements
You will engage with texts ranging from Medieval literature and Renaissance literature, to the Post Modern movement. The texts will examine ideas and concerns relevant to the time periods they were created through the eyes of the contemporary reader as well as exploring and critiquing whether these texts are still relevant today.
- Introduction to Sports Media
In this elective, students will be introduced to the world of sports media. Students will look at a broad range of sports journalism and sports media coverage, as well as creating their own podcast, commentary reel and long-form article on a sporting figure or team of their choosing.
- Expand the focus to include current cultural issues surrounding sports media (e.g. race, gender, gambling)?
- Maybe include some sports fiction too? Or sports parodies and satire?
- Look at how media coverage has changed over time? What are the expected norms now ? Are they different for different sports?
- Maybe connecting with some local sport celebrities/players and conducting interviews or covering local games?
- The Woman In The Attic: Women in Literature
You will explore how women have experienced and responded to gender in English literature from the 1700s to the present day. From writer Mary Wollstonecraft to the first Australian female Prime Minister Julia Gillard, you will explore the changing concerns of women through the ages and how they got their message out to the people. You will look at excerpts from novels, short stories, essays and non-fiction writing, and spoken and written poetry. You will complete a folio of creative, analytical and non-fiction responses that allow you to speak up and address the specific concerns of women in 2024.
- Story to Screen: Adaptation & Film
You will explore the art of adaptation and how written texts are translated to the screen, comparing a text and its adaptation and then creating your own. Through comparison of excerpts of Hamlet and Disney’s The Lion King and Daphne Du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, you will look at how universal human challenges are represented to modern audiences. (text selection changeable)
- Exploding the Canon
We will blow up the ‘pale male and stale’ Western Literary Canon. And rebuild it to serve as a mirror to the diversity of readers plus a window to a myriad of diverse perspectives in the wider world. We will privilege diverse perspectives to mirror readers’ own experiences including neurodiverse, LGBTQI+, equal gender representation, ethnicity - voices that represent Australia’s multicultural community - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and immigrants from voices from around the world. Students will be able to suggest their own short texts to share – short stories, songs and poems, autobiographies, podcasts. Who decides the canon. Let us decide. Range of genres, perspectives and text types.