Year 9 English

Course Description

In Semester One, students in Years 9 and 10, interact with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments.

They experience learning in familiar and unfamiliar contexts, including local community, vocational and global contexts. Students create a range of imaginative, informative and persuasive types of texts including narratives, procedures, performances, reports, discussions, literary analyses, transformations of texts and reviews.

Topics from Learning Assessment Plan

Life stories (memoirs);  Creative Writing (narrative) and Novel Study: The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Assessment

In the first semester, students will focus on a mixture of formative and summative tasks before completing the following:

• Writing a memoir of a person they know.
• Write and edit a narrative for effect.
• Essay response.