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Final 2018 Year 10 English Transition Days Booklet
Final 2018 Year 10 English Transition Days Booklet
Final 2018 Year 10 English Transition Days Booklet
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YEAR 10 ENGLISH OUTLINE 2018
Week 1
Week 7 Reading and creating: Reading and creating texts: Oral presentation SAC
19th March
26th March
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Week 5 Reading text:
Week 7 Reading text: Reading and creating texts: Analytical response SAC
4th June
11th June
18th June
25th June
16th July
23rd July
30th July
Week 4 Analysing and presenting argument Analysing and presenting argument: Analyisis of a single article
SAC
6th Aug
13th Aug
20th Aug
27th Aug
Week 8 Analysing and presenting argument Analysing and presenting argument: Oral point of view SAC
3rd Sep
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Week 10 Reading and comparing:
Week 6 Reading and comparing: Reading and comparing texts: Comparative essay SAC
19th 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:
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
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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
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