PCSSC

YEAR 10 Transition Days 2018

Name:
Teacher:

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 YEAR 10 ENGLISH OUTLINE 2018

Term 1 Course Focus School Assessed Coursework

2017 Intro to the course and expectations

Orientation Holiday requirements

Week 1

Week 1 Reading and creating:

29th January Growing Up Asian

Week 2 Reading and creating:

5th Feb Growing Up Asian

Week 3 Reading and creating:

12th Feb Growing Up Asian

Week 4 Reading and creating:

19th Feb Growing Up Asian

Week 5 Reading and creating:

26th Feb Growing Up Asian

Week 6 Reading and creating:

5th March Growing Up Asian

Week 7 Reading and creating: Reading and creating texts: Oral presentation SAC

12th March Growing Up Asian

Week 8 Introduction to English Language

19th March

Week 9 Introduction to English Language

26th March

Term 2 Course Focus School Assessed Coursework

Week 1 Reading and creating text:

16th April Montana 1948

Week 2 Reading text:

23rd April Montana 1948

Week 3 Reading text:

30th April Montana 1948

Week 4 Reading text:

7th May Montana 1948

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 Week 5 Reading text:

14th May Montana 1948

Week 6 Reading text:

21st May Montana 1948

Week 7 Reading text: Reading and creating texts: Analytical response SAC

28th May Montana 1948

Week 8 Exam prep

4th June

Week 9 Mid-Year exams

11th June

Week 10 Year 10 Work Experience

18th June

Week 11 Analysing and presenting argument

25th June

Term 3 Course Focus School Assessed Coursework

Week 1 Analysing and presenting argument

16th July

Week 2 Analysing and presenting argument

23rd July

Week 3 Analysing and presenting argument

30th July

Week 4 Analysing and presenting argument Analysing and presenting argument: Analyisis of a single article
SAC
6th Aug

Week 5 Analysing and presenting argument

13th Aug

Week 6 Analysing and presenting argument

20th Aug

Week 7 Analysing and presenting argument

27th Aug

Week 8 Analysing and presenting argument Analysing and presenting argument: Oral point of view SAC

3rd Sep

Week 9 Reading and comparing:

10th Sep Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

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 Week 10 Reading and comparing:

17th Sep Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Term 4 Course Focus School Assessed Coursework

Week 1 Reading and comparing:

8th Oct Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 2 Reading and comparing:

15th Oct Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 3 Reading and comparing:

22nd Oct Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 4 Reading and comparing:

29th Oct Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 5 Reading and comparing:

5th Nov Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 6 Reading and comparing: Reading and comparing texts: Comparative essay SAC

12th Nov Romeo and Juliet and Donnes poetry

Week 7 Revision week

19th Nov

Week 8 Year 10 End of Year Exams

26th Nov

Week 9

3rd Dec

Week 10

10th Dec

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 What should you do before the start of 2018?

We strongly recommend that if you want to get a head start for next year, then you should complete the
following over the end of year break:

1. Make sure you own a copy of Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung and Montana 1948 by Larry
Watson.

2. Make sure that you have not only read the provided collection of short stories from Growing Up Asian in
Australia by Alice Pung but also completed the attached table.

4. Make sure you keep up to date with news and current events; a major component of Year 10 is to
analyse how people try to use language to persuade others into agreeing with them.

5. Ensure you start 2018 with all of the required materials. This includes:

stationery
exercise books
a laptop
a paper dictionary

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 Growing Up Asian in Australia

Over the holidays, you are required to read the text Growing Up Asian in Australia. You must also fill in the table
below with information and analysis of the named stories:

Title of story Description of main character Describe in detail the key Discuss one thing that you
and setting of the story. challenge that the main enjoyed or found
character is faced with. interesting about the
writing.

The Beat of a
Different
Drum

Five Ways to
Disappoint
Your
Vietnamese
Mother

Baked Beans
and Burnt
Toast

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 Fill in the table for any two stories of your own choosing (they must be different to the ones above).

Title of story Description of main character Describe in detail the key Discuss one thing that you
and setting of the story. challenge that the main enjoyed or found
character is faced with. interesting in the writing.

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 Getting to know you:

My name is: ............................................................................................

I remember things best when I learn them in class by... (circle all that apply):

Reading about it (in a book, Doing practical work Writing things in my own words
from the board etc.)
Watching videos The teacher explaining things Taking notes in book
out loud
Using images and pictures that Activities that involve getting Role playing or acting it out
explain things up and moving around the
room
Discussing the materials in Researching on my own and Listening to my class mates
groups/as a class presenting my ideas to others explain things

Sometimes in class I really struggle with....

I feel I perform best at....

My favourite thing to do at home is....

The thing I am most worried about this year is.....

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 The hall was silent. Two hundred blond and brunette heads angled attentively, ready
to hear us play. Four hundred round eyes blinked expectantly. My little sister and I sat
on the unfamiliar piano stool, our feet not quite touching the ground. I adjusted the
sheet music that had been chosen for us. We raised our sweaty hands and launched
into our duet, The Asian Waif. Plaintive notes filled the room, along with some
clumsy plonking from my sisters left hand. The audience seemed rapt, gazing at our
bent black heads, our small brown hands. They applauded warmly at the end, smiling
and nodding at each other. How cute! the smiles seemed to say, as they took in our
dark eyes and straight-cut fringes. A faint wave of humiliation broke over me. We had
played badly but they loved us. I dont know exactly what an Asian Waif was, but I
realised it was something to do with a Chinese kid everyone felt sorry for. And that
that was why it fell to us, the only Asians in the competition. We shuffled off stage. In
the hallway mirror I caught a glimpse of my poo-brown eyes and flat yellow nose;
then I just looked down at my feet as they slunk away.

Read the following extract from the story Chinese Dancing, Bendigo Style.

Continue the story within your workbooks or on your laptops in any direction you like. You may;

Change the setting you might have the characters at a sports event, spelling bee, or a dance recital instead
Change things about the characters you might make them a different age or of a different cultural
background
Change the entire passage from first person to third person narrative rather than then I just looked down
at my feet as they slunk away you might have then his held fell down and he watched his feet as he slunk
out of room

However, you may not change the plot.

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