Year 10 English 2023

Week Date KEY KNOWLEDGE (STUDY TASKS SAC(s)/

DESIGN)/TOPICS ELT(s)
1 30th Jan  Introduce school expectations
 Introduce overview of English
 Building relationships
 Team building activities
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6 Feb  Research the Jim Crow Era
 Research John Lewis and create an
 Historical, social, and political informative PowerPoint
contexts Presentation
 Answer research comprehension
questions
3 13th Feb  Develop our vocabulary
 Understand layout
 Understand metalanguage
 Understanding graphic novels
 How to read a graphic novel
 Modelled reading

4 20th Feb  Reading ‘March’ as a class

 Analysing, clarifying, questioning
 Understanding themes, ideas
and values  Discussing themes of the text, views
and values.

5 27th Feb  Students work in pairs and assign

roles
 Planning and drafting
 Graphic novel planning
 Gallery walk and peer feedback on
planning process

6 6th Mar  Creating graphic novel using ICT

 Graphic novel drafting and  Gallery walk and peer feedback on
redrafting progress
 Redrafting and editing

7 13th Mar  Finalising graphic novel using ICT ELT1 –

Labour Day public holiday Monday
13th March
 Final submissions of graphic
novels and reflection
 Final gallery walk and peer feedback Creating Texts
for final submission
 Submission on Learning Task
 Reflection/Written Explanation task

8 20th Mar  Explicit teaching:

Understanding ‘good writing’
 Creative Writing – Forms of  Inferred meanings, symbols and
text motifs, contexts, views, values,
ideas, concerns, tensions.

8 cont. 20th Mar  Short story structure  Explicit teaching:

cont. Plot and structure, crisis points,
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turning points, climax, denouement,
resolution, rising action, falling
action, linear and nonlinear
structure, setting narrators,
character, language, vocabulary,
tenses

9 27th Mar  Students practice short story writing

using a theme from the text
 Application of knowledge
 Peer feedback and Learning Task
submission

10 3rd Apr  Explicit teaching:

 Poetry structure
How to annotate a poem, sound,
pattern, rhythm, repetition, pauses,
alliteration, assonance, imagery,
figurative language, diction,
connotations, allusions, metaphor,
similes, personification, forms

TERM 2

Application of knowledge - Poetry:

Holiday homework –
Write a series of poems looking at the themes
and ideas we have learned so far

1 24th Apr  Persuasive techniques, audience,

ANZAC day public holiday Tuesday purpose, contention, arguments,
25th April rebuttal, paragraph structure
 Speech structure

2 1st May  Students practice speech writing by

being inspired by one of the themes
 Application of knowledge  Planning, drafting and redrafting
through teacher feedback

3 8th May  Students to choose 1 of the three

writing structures and enhance with
 Creative piece drafting
ongoing feedback

4 15th May  Final work check in and submission ELT2 –

 Creative piece finalising Crafting Texts

5 22nd May  Explicit teaching:

Written explanations
 Exam revision  Form, audience, contention, tone,
language, purpose, contexts etc.
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29 May  Revise text structures
 Exam revision
7 5th Jun Exam week Exam week ELT3 - Exam

8 12th Jun Queen’s Birthday public holiday  Revise persuasive techniques

Monday 12th June  Explicitly teach additional
metalanguage like stakeholders,
 Introduction to Analysing logos, pathos, ethos etc.
Argument: Persuasive  How these techniques are used to
techniques persuade

9 19th Jun  Explicitly teach annotation

 Model annotation and reading
 Analysing Argument
aloud
continued: annotation and
 Explicitly teach structure
structure
 Block and integrated
 How to write an introduction

TERM 3

1 10th Jul  Drafting introductions

 Analysing Argument  How to write a body paragraph
continued: applying our  Drafting body paragraphs
knowledge  How to write a conclusion
 Drafting conclusion

2 17th Jul  Students use drafting feedback to

 Feedback apply their knowledge on a new
 Application of knowledge article
 Peer feedback

3 24th Jul  One period reading and annotating ELT1 -

 Assessment week  Two or three periods of writing Analysing
Argument

4 31st of  Revise speech structure

July  Explicitly teach if needed
 Students are to choose a text to
write a review on
 Introduction to presenting
 Students are to persuade the
argument
audience to read or not read the
text
 10-15 minutes reading time each
lesson

5 7th Aug  Reading time

 Presenting argument
 Oral presentation writing time
continued: writing
(planning document, transcript)
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14 Aug  Reading time
 Presenting argument
 Oral presentation visual planning
continued: viewing
time

7 21st Aug  Oral presentations in front of the ELT2 -

class Presenting
 Presenting argument
 Peer feedback / questions / 2 stars Argument
continued: speaking
and a wish etc.
 All submissions in Learning Task

8 28th Aug  Introduction to Reading and  Background context to Macbeth and

Exploring texts: Shakespeare
 Historical, social and political
contexts

9 4th Sept  Reading and analysing  Students have roles and will
read/act in class
 Teacher to model analysis

10 11th Sept  Reading and analysing  Student led analysis

TERM 4

1 2nd Oct  TEEL writing structure  Explicitly teaching structure

 Embedding quotes
 Quote analysis
 Practice introduction

2 9th Oct  TEEL writing structure and  Body paragraph drafting

draft  Peer/teacher feedback

3 16th Oct  Assessment week  Short answer questions or full essay ELT3: Reading
 1 planning period and 2 writing and Exploring
periods Texts

4 23rd Oct VCAA Exams begin

5 30th Oct

6 6th Nov Melbourne Cup public holiday Tuesday

1st Nov

7 13th Nov VCAA Exams end

Exam week Exam week

8 20th Nov Transition for 2023 Week 1

9 27th Nov Transition for 2023 Week 2

10 4th Dec
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