# Year 10 English: ten scripted 25-minute sessions

Give learners the [original reading set](STUDENT-READING.md) and [dated task cards](STUDENT-TASKS.md). Keep the [teacher reading master](MATERIALS.md) and [keyed checks](ASSESSMENT.md) with the educator. The [claim-check aid](../print/claim-check.svg) is learner-ready. Each lesson has six timed phases totalling **25 minutes**. Learners may read silently, hear an exact adult reading, use selectable text, speak, type, write or use AAC for the same reasoning goal. A code marks **partial** Year 10 Australian Curriculum v9 work. Rotate close observations across 2–3 focus learners a day; a whole-class exit is not 30 individual interviews.

## Day 1 — Two values inside one narrative

**Codes:** `AC9E10LE04`, `AC9E10LY05`. **Goal:** analyse an ethical position in Text A with precise evidence. **Prepare:** Text A and two-column “choice / possible value” notes.

1. **Invite · 2 min.** Say: “A headline attracts attention but may say more than the data. What would you protect first?” Give private think time; no personal disclosure needed.
2. **Read · 5 min.** Read Text A aloud or allow silent reading. Pause after Leena reads the column headings; ask what Arin's original headline leaves out.
3. **Model · 5 min.** Quote “That note won't catch someone's eye first.” Explain that Leena is considering *placement* as well as truth; the text positions accurate scope as an obligation to readers.
4. **Partner inquiry · 7 min.** Choose Arin or Leena. Name one action, the value it may reveal and a quoted phrase. Partner offers a fair alternative interpretation, not a personality label.
5. **Discussion · 4 min.** Ask whether the corrected headline loses all impact. Use its actual wording. Distinguish a reader's supported ethical judgement from the author's single fixed answer.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone completes: “The narrative invites us to question ___; the phrase ___ supports this because ___.” Teacher samples focus explanations.

**Access:** exact text, line markers, adult reading, typed or dictated evidence. Do not score willingness to speak publicly.

## Day 2 — Voice changes the question

**Codes:** `AC9E10LE06`, `AC9E10LE04`, `AC9E10LA05`. **Goal:** compare how narrative and poem voice shape response. **Prepare:** Text A and A2.

1. **Listen · 2 min.** Read the eight poem lines once, then ask learners to choose a line that lingers.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Contrast Text A's third-person scene and dialogue with the poem's first-person “I”. The speaker turns a line into a “hill”, then asks who selected dots.
3. **Reread · 6 min.** Pairs annotate where the poem's focus shifts from shape to evidence and where the narrative shifts from catchy wording to checking labels.
4. **Compare · 7 min.** Students write or speak two sentences: one effect of each voice on the reader. Require exact words from both texts; “poem feels better” alone is not analysis.
5. **Experiment · 3 min.** Rewrite “I ask who chose the first two dots” as an impersonal report sentence. Ask what sense of a human question is reduced or gained.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone names one voice choice and its likely audience effect, with an example phrase.

**Access:** poem in selectable text; no demand for expressive reading. A learner may choose to hear lines twice or mark them tactilely.

## Day 3 — Words can include or shut out a reader

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA01`, `AC9E10LA02`, `AC9E10LY03`. **Goal:** identify the social effect and implied values of an invented media post. **Prepare:** Text B and the source data.

1. **Read · 2 min.** Read Text B exactly. Ask learners to underline one command or certainty phrase.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Focus on “Anyone who questions the result is ignoring the numbers.” Explain that it frames scrutiny as disloyalty, which may discourage legitimate questions. The phrase reveals a value placed on quick agreement.
3. **Source check · 6 min.** Locate 8.1 and 1.8 in Table A. Students note that net force differs (4 N vs 1 N) and no finish comparison exists.
4. **Repair choices · 7 min.** Learners rewrite the excluding sentence in an invitation to check evidence, then rewrite “proof” with a scoped claim. A partner reads the new wording as a sceptical reader.
5. **Discuss · 3 min.** Ask: “Would ‘some readers may ask’ change the data?” No, but it changes whose questions the text welcomes. Do not target any real student's identity or language.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone pairs one exact phrase with its implied value/effect and one more precise alternative.

**Access:** highlight, copy/paste, large print, speech/AAC selection. The evaluation is of fictional wording, not a learner's manner of speaking.

## Day 4 — Structure makes a claim navigable

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA03`, `AC9E10LA04`, `AC9E10LY04`. **Goal:** compare the organisation of Texts B and C for purpose. **Prepare:** both texts, claim-check aid and the [four learner strips](STUDENT-TASKS.md).

1. **Question · 2 min.** “Which text asks for action first? Which makes its limit visible?”
2. **Model · 5 min.** Map B: headline → selected extremes → certainty → command. Map C: scope → pattern → theoretical comparison → explicit limit. Say the sequence is part of the message.
3. **Guided annotation · 6 min.** Students label C's two paragraphs and note how the repeated “model data” phrase keeps readers in scope.
4. **Rebuild · 7 min.** In pairs, reorder the four exact invented-route strips from the learner task card into a trustworthy mini-caption: source, pattern, support, limit. Then compare with B's order.
5. **Evaluate · 3 min.** Ask whether a limit at the very bottom of an unreadable page would work as well. Discuss reader navigation and prominence without inventing viewing statistics.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone explains one structural choice and its effect on what a reader notices first.

**Access:** movable paper strips or text headings, screen-reader-friendly labelled paragraphs, partner reading on request.

## Day 5 — Check A: a caption worth trusting

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA08`, `AC9E10LY06`, `AC9E10LY05`. **Goal:** create an accurate compact caption using technical words and a limit. **Prepare:** learner [Check A](STUDENT-TASKS.md), teacher [key](ASSESSMENT.md), and learner Table A.

1. **Purpose · 2 min.** “A reader who has not seen the table should know what was simulated and what was not tested.”
2. **Model term · 5 min.** Contrast *acceleration* with *speed* and *net force* with wheel finish. Write one precise sentence: “Higher listed net force accompanies higher simulated acceleration in this set.”
3. **Plan · 6 min.** Learners use the claim-check aid: source, pattern, data example, limit. Point out a number must have unit and comparison conditions.
4. **Independent writing · 7 min.** Write 3–4 sentences or an accessible equivalent with transcript. They may use Table A but not copy Text C whole.
5. **Self-edit · 3 min.** Circle any “proves,” “always” or speed/acceleration confusion; repair at least one if present. Teacher samples 2–3 focus learners.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone submits the caption. Use the key to choose next text or word move.

**Access:** sentence labels but no supplied conclusion; speech/AAC/typing; a locally recorded response needs a transcript and school data handling, not publication.

## Day 6 — Two sound arguments with different horizons

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA02`, `AC9E10LY03`, `AC9E10LY05`. **Goal:** identify how assumptions and values shape Texts D/E. **Prepare:** fictional device brief and two notes.

1. **Orient · 2 min.** “Both writers use the invented numbers. They answer different time questions.”
2. **Read · 5 min.** Read D and E; mark “four months” and “ten-month horizon”. Clarify that the household is fictional and no personal budgets are requested.
3. **Model · 5 min.** Check D: A(4)=$560, B(4)=$680. Explain why “on stated price” narrows the conclusion and hints at the author's value of lower initial commitment.
4. **Compare · 7 min.** Pairs check E: B(10)=$980, A(10)=$1,040. Each selects one qualification and explains how it changes the apparent certainty. Swap texts.
5. **Question · 4 min.** “Can one writer be right at four months and the other at ten?” Yes. Ask what a reader must know before adopting either: likely duration and real terms.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone completes: “Text __ is persuasive for __ months because __; its limit is __.”

**Access:** cost table, adult reading, private answer, calculator after model where approved. No family finance disclosure.

## Day 7 — A sentence can hold a condition in view

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA05`, `AC9E10LA08`, `AC9E10LY06`. **Goal:** craft precise conditional and contrast sentences. **Prepare:** D/E and cost board.

1. **Hear · 2 min.** Compare “B is cheaper” with “At ten months, B has the lower modelled total.” Ask which is safer for an unfamiliar reader.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Write “Although B has a higher setup cost, its ten-month modelled total is $60 lower.” Identify the concession, main claim and exact horizon; check $1,040−$980=$60.
3. **Guided repair · 6 min.** Repair “Since A starts cheaper, it always costs less.” Use equality at month 8 and a conditional clause naming duration.
4. **Independent choice · 7 min.** Students write two linked sentences for a fictional arts studio, home device or community organisation reader using the same plan data: one condition and one fair counterpoint. The audience can change; figures cannot.
5. **Test aloud · 3 min.** Partner reads the sentence without context. Author adds a unit or horizon if missing.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone submits one sentence whose truth depends on a named condition.

**Access:** clause strips, dictation, keyboard or AAC; judge meaning before handwriting or pronunciation.

## Day 8 — Punctuation and questions can make limits visible

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA09`, `AC9E10LA01`, `AC9E10LY03`. **Goal:** use punctuation and inclusive wording to clarify a claim's conditions. **Prepare:** Texts B/E and claim-check aid.

1. **Prompt · 2 min.** “What would a reader need to ask before spending?” Keep the exercise fictional and non-advisory.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Write “Check two conditions: the full terms and the device's accessibility.” The colon introduces a list. Then “Plan B is lower at ten months (in this simplified model).” Brackets mark a qualification without hiding it.
3. **Source critique · 6 min.** Revisit B's “Anyone who questions...” and E's condition checks. Students explain why an invitation to ask is more useful than labelling a doubter.
4. **Edit choices · 7 min.** Choose a cart or hire claim. Write a short headline plus one sentence with a colon or brackets and an explicit limit. Make the limit readable, not tiny or buried.
5. **Peer test · 3 min.** Partner identifies exactly what the punctuation introduces and whose question the new wording permits. Fix any colon that introduces no explanation.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone states the punctuation's job and reads the resulting claim's scope.

**Access:** punctuation cards, plain-text version of the claim, spoken draft; do not rely on colour or type size alone.

## Day 9 — Recommend without overselling

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA04`, `AC9E10LY06`, `AC9E10LY03`. **Goal:** draft a two-paragraph recommendation that names data, assumptions and an alternative. **Prepare:** device brief, D/E, claim-check aid.

1. **Audience · 2 min.** “A fictional adult reader wants a 10-month decision within $1,000. We can report the model; we cannot certify a real contract.”
2. **Model plan · 5 min.** Fill source = invented plan rules; claim = B fits $1,000 at 10 months; calculation = $980 versus $1,040; limit = actual terms and access remain unverified.
3. **Plan · 6 min.** Learners decide how to present A fairly for a shorter horizon and what would change the recommendation. They may argue for **no commitment yet** while awaiting information if they explain why.
4. **Draft · 7 min.** Write two short paragraphs or an equivalent accessible presentation with transcript: recommendation/figures, then alternative/limits/next check. No real purchase or sending to others.
5. **Edit · 3 min.** Partner checks that all dollar amounts and durations match the brief and that no “always” claim escapes the stated horizon.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Everyone submits a revised claim and one explicit uncertainty.

**Access:** paragraph headings, typing/speech/AAC, private peer or teacher review. A writing support should preserve the learner's own choice and reason.

## Day 10 — Check B: read a fresh claim, then revise it

**Codes:** `AC9E10LA02`, `AC9E10LY04`, `AC9E10LY06`. **Goal:** independently diagnose a new overstated claim and produce a scoped response. **Prepare:** the fresh [learner Check B](STUDENT-TASKS.md), teacher [key](ASSESSMENT.md) and plan data; give Check B only on Day 10.

1. **Orient · 2 min.** “Name the assumption under the statement. You may disagree with its conclusion if you show why.”
2. **Read · 5 min.** Supply the exact fresh statement in print or adult reading, without hinting at the error.
3. **Analyse · 6 min.** Students identify claim, one valid figure, one missing condition or overgeneralisation and the implied priority.
4. **Revise · 7 min.** Write 3–4 accurate sentences for the fictional reader; use an alternative duration or plan and one verification question. Collect before answer discussion.
5. **Self-check · 3 min.** Underline source data and bracket a qualification; repair one overstatement. Teacher observes focus learners and notes prompts.
6. **Close · 2 min.** Everyone submits the response. Use the key to plan an independent later recheck where needed.

**Access:** selectable text, large print, exact adult reading, quiet response, typed/AAC or spoken answer with local transcript. No child recording or data is published.

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