Gleeson College Curriculum Guide 2026 - Senior Years | 19 Year 10 Subjects Welcome Learning at Gleeson College Gleeson Staff Contacts Senior Learning Pathways Year 10 Overview Subjects Year 11 Overview Subjects Year 12 Overview Subjects ENGLISH A & B LEARNING AREA: English LENGTH: Full Year LEADS TO: Stage 1 English LEARNING SUMMARY: Students explore the interrelationship between text, audience, and context through the analysis and creation of written, spoken, and multimodal texts. They examine how text structures, language features, and literary devices are used to shape representations of people, places, events, and concepts across a range of purposes. Students analyse how perspectives are constructed through stylistic choices and consider how these are influenced by cultural, social, and historical contexts. They read and respond to a range of texts, including novels, films, poetry and play scripts, and they create a variety of text types, including biography, recount, expository, and persuasive texts. They create films and deliver oral presentations. ASSESSMENT: Responding to Texts (55%) Creating Texts (45%) ENGLISH (ACCELERATED) LEARNING AREA: English LENGTH: Semester 2 SACE: Stage 1, 10 credits LEADS TO: Stage 1 English LEARNING SUMMARY: Students analyse the interrelationship between author, text, and audience with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts. An understanding of purpose, context and audience is applied to students’ own creation of imaginative, analytical and persuasive texts that may be written, oral, or multimodal. Students analyse the relationships between texts and explore the use of intertextuality to create meaning in a transformed text. To achieve their SACE, students must achieve a C- or higher in at least two semesters of SACE English subjects. Students may choose to study English (Accelerated) instead of English B. Entry into this subject is by invitation only. ASSESSMENT: Responding to Texts (40%) Creating Texts (20%) Intertextual Study (30%) Examination (10%) LEARNING SUMMARY: Students read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language fea- tures including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and the way that these can influ- ence an audience. This subject is designed for students with a Personal Plan for Learning who have demonstrated a need for support with their literacy development. There is a focus on sen- tence and paragraph construction, key vocabulary, cre- ativity, clarity and student choice. The class size is limited to 12, and entrance to the subject is by invitation only. ASSESSMENT: Responding to Texts (50%) Creating Texts (60%) ESSENTIAL ENGLISH A & B LEARNING AREA: English LENGTH: Full Year LEADS TO: Stage 1 Essential English