Year 10 ACARA 9.0 Descriptors and Elaborations:

Drama

Exploring and Responding

Students analyse performances to understand how symbols and movement create meaning. They investigate the collaborative creation and development of drama texts, focusing on how elements and conventions shape meaning and achieve intentions. They explore historical texts and styles from diverse cultural traditions, examining how contemporary performance conventions, such as non-realist or innovative forms, influence meaning. This exploration serves as a foundation for their own creative work.

English

Examine Literature

Analyse how text structures, language features, literary devices, and visual elements, along with the context of their experience, influence audience response and shape interpretations. Compare and evaluate the use of "voice" across different forms to evoke emotional responses and aesthetic qualities.

Health and Physical Education

Personal, Social and Community Health

Analyse and reflect on how values and beliefs shape identities, including how individuals influence each other’s identities and how gender stereotypes affect roles, decision-making, and power dynamics in relationships. Examine the roles of respect, empathy, power, and coercion in developing and maintaining respectful relationships, and evaluate how these factors impact such relationships. Investigate strategies to value diversity and promote inclusion within communities and propose actions for individuals and groups to challenge biases, address stereotypes, and communicate effectively, including managing emotions and negotiating consent.

Drama

Years 11 –12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 1: Share

In Unit 1, students explore the importance of drama as a means to tell stories and share understandings of the human experience in a range of cultures. They begin with a focus on Australian voices and experiences. They will engage with foundational content, skills and processes of drama to explore the diversity of Australian experiences. This will inform how students develop and share their unique artistic voice and develop an aesthetic awareness.

English

Years 11 –12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 4: Close Study of Literary Texts

Students explore the world and human experience by engaging with literary texts from diverse times and places. They explore how these texts build a shared understanding of the human experience and through this become significant to a culture. This unit includes the close study of literary texts to allow students to extend their experience of the world.

General Capabilities:

• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Literacy
• Ethical Understanding
• Intercultural understanding
• Personal and Social capability