English - Year 9
Mandatory: Yes
Duration: Full year
Description
This course provides students with the opportunities to develop literacy skills across a range of communication modes, focusing on language and its effects.
Topics covered in the Year 9 English course will include:
Responding to texts:
Students learn to evaluate and integrate ideas and information from texts to form their own interpretations. Students learn to understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the response of others. This takes the format of studying texts such as:
- Novels
- Graphic novels
- Picture books
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Film
- Media texts
- Blogs/Articles
Students also respond to film, media and other text types such as song lyrics and articles.
Creating texts:
- Students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts.
- Students will learn to edit for effect, selecting vocabulary and grammar that contribute to the precision and persuasiveness of texts while also using accurate spelling and punctuation.
- Students produce their own examples of texts types, including persuasive, narrative and informative texts
