Year 9 English
Overview
In Year 9 English, you will explore a wide range of texts and media in print and electronic form. This includes imaginative literature, popular fiction, non-fiction, film and other multimedia texts.
The course also aims to develop clear communication of feelings, ideas and opinions.
The theme of the course is ‘Activism’ and aims to encouraged you to become a curious and independent learner while exploring current world topics. You will also produce a variety of written and spoken responses to texts and issues.
What do you do?
You will complete a variety of tasks including:
- Creating a character and a character vignette
- Preparing and delivering a speech on the Hyde Park Monument
- Exploring Indigenous cultures
- Reading and responding to a variety of texts
- Digital storytelling/Creative video
- Composing an analytical response to a series of short stories
- Creative writing
- Persuasive writing
What skills do you develop?
Reading and viewing
You will:
- analyse the way text structures can be manipulated for effect
- analyse and explain how images, vocabulary choices and language features distinguish the work of individual authors
- evaluate and integrate ideas and information from texts to form your own interpretations
- select evidence from the text to analyse and explain how language choices and conventions are used to influence an audience.
Speaking and listening
You will:
- listen for the ways in which texts position an audience
- develop your understanding of how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning
- understand how interpretations can vary by comparing your responses to texts with the responses of others
- demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts
- create texts that respond to issues, interpreting and integrating ideas from texts
- make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, comparing and evaluating responses to ideas and issue.
Writing and presenting
You will:
- understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning
- understand how interpretations can vary by comparing your responses to texts to the responses of others
- demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts
- create texts that respond to issues interpreting and integrating ideas from other texts
- edit for effect, selecting vocabulary and grammar that contribute to the precision and persuasiveness of texts and use accurate spelling and punctuation.
Requirements
Semester 1
Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison
Semester 2
The Lost Thing, by Shaun Tan
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology by Danielle Binks, Michael Pryor, Lili Wilkinson, Gabrielle Tozer, Melissa Keil, Amie Kaufman, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney & Jaclyn Moriarty
You must have access to the internet to participate in this course. Work will be completed and submitted online weekly.
You also need a headset microphone or a computer with speakers and microphone in order to take part in online lessons.
You must choose and read two texts as part of the Wide Reading Program in Semester 1. These texts may be fiction or non-fiction.
To do this, access VSV’s elibrary or visit your local library or sites such as the Inside a Dog website to find texts for wide reading.
Things you can do now
Get a head start by reading the set texts now. This will help you with your analysis when we study the texts during the year.
Go to the VCAA website for more information about this subject.