This term's assessment will require students to compose a narrative in class of a hero's journey. Key skills and content from this topic will also be tested in the half-yearly examination held in term two.
In Term 2, Year 9 English classes will undertake a study of spoken texts in the unit 'Voices of Change'. Each class will focus on a range of spoken texts including poems, songs and speeches that promote an obvious social cause. Students will study iconic texts such as Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech and John Lennon's 'Imagine' in order to develop their understanding of how language can move an audience to act for change.
Students will also develop their own speaking skills through their assessment task which requires them to compose and present a speech, persuading an audience to act for change with regards to an issue of interest for each student.
In Term 3, Year 9 students will complete a unit that explores the way Australia and Australians are represented in literature, film and the media in a unit titled 'Australiana - Exploring and Challenging Stereotypes of Australia and Australians'. Classes will engage with a number of texts, including narratives, poems, songs, film clips, television shows and films.
In Term 4, Year 9 classes will dive into studying a film director in a unit called 'Lights! Camera! Action! Director Study'. Classes will each study the work of a particular film director, such as Tim Burton, to identify the stylistic characteristics and film techniques favoured by their director.
Students will also learn about film scripts as a type of text and develop their creative writing skills by composing interviews and script excerpts focused on their director and films studied in class.
