Literature focuses on the meanings derived from texts, the relationships between texts, the contexts in which texts are produced, and how readers’ experiences shape their responses to texts.

In Year 10 Literature students develop and refine four key abilities through their engagement with texts. These are:

  • an ability to offer an interpretation of a whole text (or a collection of texts)
  • an ability to demonstrate a close analysis of passages or extracts from a text, in consideration of the whole text
  • an ability to understand and explore multiple interpretations of a text
  • an ability to respond creatively to a text.

Students are provided with opportunities to read deeply, widely and critically; to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of texts; and to write creatively and analytically.

Literature enables students to examine the historical, social and cultural contexts within which both readers and texts are situated. Accordingly, the texts selected for study are drawn from a wide range of eras, a variety of forms and diverse social and cultural contexts.