Year 10 Course Booklet

Year 10 Course Booklet

Year 10 Course Booklet 2022

Welcome to the Christ’s College Diploma

This is your first year of a two-year programme of learning. The Diploma is designed to provide you with a range of learning experiences, both inside and outside the classroom. You will be allocated to a range of classes for some subjects and have a choice of classes with other subjects. By the end of Year 11, you will have experienced all the subjects on offer at Christ’s College, as well as selected courses to prepare you for NCEA. All courses in Years 10–11 are taught in semesters, allowing you to select a larger number of courses overall. Even though the overall subject may be the same, by changing courses halfway through the year you can be exposed to a range of topics that interest you.

There are two types of courses designed to meet your learning needs.

Core courses These give you core knowledge in each subject. Every subject area requires you to take two to three core courses over Years 10–11.

Prep courses

These give you deeper, expert knowledge in a subject. They prepare you directly for NCEA Level 2, but you may also choose a prep course for deeper knowledge. Most prep courses take place in the final semester of Year 11.

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Core subjects (assigned)

Core subjects (choose)

• Biology • Chemistry

• Arts • Commerce • English • Geography • History • Languages • Physical Education • Technology

• Financial Literacy • Health & Wellbeing • Mathematics • Physics • Religious Education • Te Ao Ma¯ ori

You can find information about specific courses under each subject. Where you can choose a course, take note of how many options you choose for Year 10.

All courses are subject to sufficient student numbers. No course is guaranteed to run.

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Entering options online

Options are entered online at http://www.selectmysubjects.com.au. You will be emailed a direct link to your school email. The email also contains your student access code and password. You can go to the above address and enter your access code and password manually if you prefer. If you do not receive an email, or if you delete it, see Timetabler William Bell. Subject choices 2022 – login details Enter your subject choices for next year when you are ready. You can go back and change or reorder them any time before the deadline. All subject choices must be entered by 8am on Friday 13 August at the latest. You will not be able to enter your options after this date as the school will start to make decisions about 2022 classes immediately after the deadline. Please ensure you discuss your subject selection with your parents/guardians before entering them into the system. Please see Assistant Principal – Curriculum Nicole Billante if you have any questions about your subject options or Timetabler William Bell if you have any problems with submitting your options.

Login

Click on this direct link to enter your preferences:

Direct link to my Web Preferences account.

Or enter the www.selectmysubjects.com.au address into your browser and log in with your student access code and password.

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Step 1: Click Add New Preferences To view your subject information, click “View Subject Details” near the top right of the screen. To select (or change) your preferences, click the green “Add New Preferences” button.

Step 2: Select Your Preferences Carefully read the “View Instructions” at the top of the page about your option choices for next year. Select your subjects from the drop-down lists. You have 30 minutes to do this before your session expires.

Once complete, click the green “Proceed” button.

Note: You are not finished until you complete Step 3.

Step 3: Submit Valid Preferences If you are happy with your preferences, click the green “Submit Valid Preferences” button, which will open your “Preferences Receipt”. Or, if you would like to change your preferences, click “Cancel” and this will take you back to the Preferences selection page. It is important that you enter your choices in order of how important they are to you. You can click “Reorder Preferences” on the right of the screen if you need to change your preference order and then “Save Order”. Note: Your choices will not be submitted unless you click “Submit Valid Preferences”.

Step 4: View/Print Receipt

If you wish to print a “Preferences Receipt”, click “Open Print View” and then “Print Receipt”.

To continue, click “Return to Home Page”.

If you want to change your preferences now, or at any time before the deadline, repeat the whole process by clicking “Add New Preferences”.

Exit by clicking “Logout”.

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Course descriptions

A guide to key words Subject: The curriculum areas – the main topic of subject. Courses: The different classes offered by a subject area.

NZC Learning

Subject

Course option Course option Course option

Example

The Arts

Drama

Stage movement

Clowning around

Techniques

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The Arts

By the end of Year 11, you must have completed one Drama, one Music, and one Visual Arts course. For Year 10, make two subject choices. You choose one course per subject. You will complete the third subject in Year 11.

Drama

Music

Clowning around

Solo/ensemble performance Students focus on both solo and ensemble performance skills, working to improve their working knowledge of musical styles and ability to performmusic to the best of their ability. Strongly recommended for students having – or those who have had – instrumental/voice lessons on their chosen instrument/voice. Create musical works to include songwriting Students create works for both their chosen instrument(s) or ensembles (bands) and develop skills in musical notation, lead sheets, theoretical aspects, sound production, recording, and completing both live performance and professional recordings of their works. Recommended for students who like to work within both a solo and ensemble (band) situation and collaborate with peers in musical creativity.

Pure fun – all the games you love, plus basic skills. The course explores the freedom that dramatic expression offers and encourages boys to find a variety of ways to harness the power of drama.

Recommended for those new to Drama.

Stage movement and fighting Love to move? Jump, slide, roll and fight your way into stage combat alongside performance skills. This course focuses on the power of movement in dramatic performance. This is about the visual and physical spectacle of how to bring stories to life.

Acting technique and performance

Bring characters to life. Be involved in a production and extend your skills. This course looks at the dramatic techniques involved in character development. By working through the production process, students develop greater awareness of the intricacies of characterisation in Drama.

Recommended for those looking at continuing Drama.

Creating theatre and theatresports Create a performance out of the games you love. This course enables development not only of dramatic techniques, but also quick thinking and how to respond to others in the dramatic moment.

Recommended for those looking at continuing Drama.

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Visual Arts

Sculpture This course encourages students to express their creative ideas in the context of Sculpture. Students' critical-thinking skills and creative abilities are nurtured through student-directed projects. Students learn a range of visual communication techniques in an art-making context. They learn about the techniques and processes used by established artists and apply these to their own artwork. This course is inspired by the Scape Public Art festival. Students make a series of maquettes, or scale models, proposed for a site of their choice. This project encourages exploration through a range of art materials and art-making objectives, and explores the theme of connection to place and identity.

Painting This course encourages students to express their creative ideas in the context of Painting. Students' critical-thinking skills and creative abilities are nurtured through student-directed projects. Students learn a range of visual communication techniques in an art-making context. They learn about the techniques and processes used by established artists and apply these in the making of their own artwork. Projects include drawing from architecture or assemblage and developing a series of abstract paintings on hardboard. Contemporary Ma¯ ori Art This course encourages students to express their creative ideas in the context of contemporary Ma¯ ori painting. Students' critical-thinking skills and creative abilities are nurtured through student- directed projects. Students learn a range of visual communication techniques in an art-making context. They learn about the techniques and processes used by established artists and apply these in the making of their own artwork. In this course, students look at the art of Shane Cotton and make paintings informed by tikanga Ma¯ ori.

Photography

This course encourages students to express their creative ideas in the context of Photography. Students' critical-thinking skills and creative abilities are nurtured through student-directed projects. Students learn a range of visual communication techniques in an art-making context, including learning about pictorial, technical and conceptual conventions. They learn about the techniques and processes used by established artists and apply these in the taking of their own photographs. It explores the theme of whakapapa, migration and identity. Students make a series of photographic works for exhibition. This project encourages exploration through a range of approaches to photography and its presentation.

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English

By the end of Year 11, you must have completed three core courses in English. For Year 10, choose two from the list of courses. By the end of Year 11, you must complete one core course from the options below. A prep course is highly recommended.

These courses are designed to teach core English skills in a range of contexts and provide academic rigour and engagement. While all courses are accessible to all students, courses offer differing levels of academic challenge to differentiate for student needs. Students should speak to their English teacher for further advice.

Core courses

Don’t judge me

Honestly face the inequalities in our society. We will take a look at the ways literature exposes these and the solutions it has to offer.

Taking it to the streets

Unpack historical protest movements and how they have paved the way for 21st century activism.

Text types: novel, film.

Recommended for students interested in social issues and comparing texts.

Text types: images, speeches, song, media reports.

Recommended for students interested in social issues.

Rage against the machine Examine how those in power retain control through the use of tools such as manipulation and surveillance.

The newsroom: live-streamed investigative journalism

Put your sharp mind and curious soul to work in uncovering inconvenient truths. We will be creating our own media company and live- streaming our product. Text types: documentaries, print, television, online news sources. Recommended for students interested in journalism and media.

Text types: novel, short stories, film.

Recommended for students interested in power and/or politics and comparing texts.

How to get away with murder

Read a range of texts about characters who commit and get away with homicide.

Text types: novels, short stories.

Recommended for students interested in the power and intrigue of storytelling.

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All the world's a stage Explore English through theatre. From Shakespeare to Sainsbury, we discover how plays have changed over time through both study and performance.

Text types: artwork, poetry, short stories

Recommended for students interested in New Zealand art, history, identity and literature.

It's the little things that count Look at thematic connections in film and literature that celebrate moments of joy and beauty. This is all about looking at the little moments of pleasure in the everyday.

Text types: drama (plays), film.

Recommended for students interested in drama and theatre and exploring these texts through a literary lens.

Fake it until you make it It is no secret that marketing can persuade us to spend, but in what ways? Focus on advertising within specific time periods. We will investigate how language and visual aids are used to blindside the truth. Clever marketing can easily fool even the most careful person into believing they are making the right choice – find out if it is you.

Text types: poetry, film, creative writing.

Recommended for students interested in the joy that can come from a good story.

An eye for an eye: retribution and revenge

Delve into the distinctly human phenomenon of revenge.

Text types: print, film, online advertisements.

Text types: short stories, creative writing.

Recommended for students interested in the power of media and marketing.

Recommended for students interested in exploring philosophical ideas and applying them to different texts.

On the cutting-room floor Explore visual texts as a mode of storytelling. Look specifically at how a director's choices do make a difference.

The evolution of English Travel to the past to examine the origins of English since Anglo-Saxon times, taking a fascinating journey through Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Speculate about the future of English, based on contemporary trends, and invent your own version of the English of the future. Text types: a range of excerpts across different historical periods. Recommended for students interested in the amazing nuances of language.

Text types: cartoons, graphic novels, film.

Recommended for students interested in film studies.

Our New Zealand identity Explore the relationship between New Zealand Ma¯ ori visual artists and New Zealand literature and how they mapped an important phase in carving a modern identity for our culture.

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Health & Wellbeing

By the end of Year 11, you must have completed two courses in Health Education and two courses in Wellbeing. For Year 10, you will be assigned to the following two classes:

Health Education Within the Year 10 health programme, students develop skills that help them navigate a changing and challenging world. Students investigate social issues associated with drugs and alcohol and learn decision-making skills to help themmake good, balanced choices when faced with difficult situations. Students also explore what constitutes a healthy and unhealthy relationship and look at the effects that social media has on personal wellbeing.

Wellbeing Within the Year 10 Wellbeing programme, students continue to work on the key areas of wellbeing first introduced in Year 9. Students expand their knowledge of how to leverage character strengths, look at the means by which we can develop a growth mindset, and build strategies for resilience and grit. A particular focus on psychological safety, self talk, and self- regulation underpins the strategies for developing these skills.

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The Humanities

By the end of Year 11, you must have completed one Commerce, one Geography, and one History course. For Year 10, make two subject choices. You choose one course per subject. You will complete the third subject in Year 11 or in lieu of a Language 2 choice.

Commerce

Geography

Business, innovation and enterprise An applied course that also combines the foundations of Business, Accounting and Economics, it uses a practical applied lens. Students work as a group to set up a business to sell a product/service on a small scale. Recommended for students who enjoy working with others to develop Commerce theory and bring it to reality by trying to start your business and sell your product/service. Decisions, decisions, decisions A combined Commerce course that touches on the foundations of Business, Economics and Accounting through the lens of decision-making. It answers several questions. Will this product sell? How much should I sell it for? Should I use social media to advertise? Am I a just-for-profit business? Why do consumers do that? Recommended for students who enjoy Commerce but would prefer not to carry out their ideas in a practical context and sell their product.

Megacity madness This course looks at the effects of urbanisation and congestion on people and environments, with case studies from around the world. Recommended for students with an interest in the impact of development on both humans and the planet. Extreme natural events This course looks deeper at how extreme natural event(s) have shaped environments. All events have an impact on people and places around the world and students compare the nature of these events and their consequences. Recommended for students with an interest in the physical world.

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History

The abuse of power Students investigate the rise of leaders who use and abuse their positions for their own personal, ethnic or national ambition. The impact of this then falls on ordinary people. Will you find your leader guilty of crimes against humanity? This course looks at how people and groups have challenged the abuse of power. Recommended for students interested in leadership and how individual leaders assert their influence and impact on people. It is also helpful for those interested in the legal profession.

The people at war War may seem glorious, and the purpose of this course is to find the similarities and differences in how and why war is conducted, while being aware of the impact on those left at home. Recommended for students interested in war and conflict but also how people act because of conflict. It is also helpful for those interested in the legal profession.

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Languages

By the end of Year 11 you must have completed one core course, either language or culture-based, in one of these three languages: French, Japanese, or Te Reo Ma¯ori. For students who wish to pursue further language study, you may then select prep courses in your language (in sequential order). For Year 10, this is ‘Language 2’.

Core courses

French Language 1 Students learn to express themselves more confidently, in greater detail about topics which are relevant to them. Topics include family, friends, hobbies, sporting interests and school life. Film study continues. Recommended for students interested in global citizenship, international business travel. Prerequisite for: French Language 2, French Language 3, French Language 4. Level 2 French. The French way Students explore many aspects of French culture, cuisine and ways of living. The course is taught in English and includes useful travel expressions. This course is non-advancing. Recommended for students primarily interested in French culture only. Japanese Language 1 Students build on their language skills by learning katakana, opening up a new understanding of how Japanese is spoken. Topics include talking about personal details, family, pets and food. Film study continues.

Recommended for students interested in global citizenship, international business travel. Prerequisite for: Japanese Language 2, Japanese Language 3, Japanese Language 4. Level 2 Japanese. The Japanese way Students explore and experience many aspects of Japanese culture, daily life, entertainment and cuisine throughout the course. This course is taught in English and is non-advancing. Recommended for students primarily interested in Japanese culture only. Te Reo 1 Students learn to express themselves more confidently, in greater detail about topics which are relevant to them. Topics include wha¯ nau, time, days of the week and kı¯-o-rahi. Recommended for students interested in biculturalism. Prerequisite for: Te Reo 2, Te Reo 3, Te Reo 4. Level 2 Te Reo.

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Prep courses For those continuing with language study.

French Language 2 This course extends students’ ability to express themselves, including talking about past and future events. Topics include Christchurch, daily routines, mealtimes, sport and leisure. Film study continues. Prerequisite for: French Language 3, French Language 4. Level 2 French.

Te Reo 2 Students learn to express themselves using more than one tense and explore sentence structure. Topics include whakataukı¯ , my home and going places.

Prerequisite for: Te Reo 3, Te Reo 4. Level 2 Te Reo.

Japanese Language 2

Students continue to consolidate their knowledge of katakana, as well as cover topics including weekend and daily activities, free time and the Japanese school year. Film study continues.

Prerequisite for: Japanese Language 3, Japanese Language 4. Level 2 Japanese.

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Mathematics

By the end of Year 11, you must have completed three core courses and a prep course in Mathematics. Each semester, all students will cover the same topics. You will be placed in an accelerated, core, or development level course. You may move between levels after each course is completed.

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