Students demonstrate their skills of communication through the interpretation, response and creation of a range of texts in contemporary forms. The subject is accessible to all students and provides an alternative approach to meeting the required literacy component for SACE. It focuses on a combination of real world and fictional text experiences. Evidence of learning is provided through text analysis, and multi-modal and written text creation. Assessment includes television, film and novel response questions, a social action speech, narrative writing and a multimodal response to an excursion.