Scotch College

ENGLISH Year 9 — 2012

Rationale 

The Year 9 English Course is a literature-based Course Contented to engage and challenge students. We introduce students to a variety of texts aimed at developing an awareness of how print and non-print texts construct meaning.  Throughout the year, students participate in learning activities that seek to complement various learning styles.  The course builds on the English programs developed at Years 7 and 8 levels and provides an important step in the preparation for future years.

Student Outcomes 

Listening and Speaking:

• to listen to others attentively and politely
• to develop a range of listening and speaking skills, incorporating the abilities to follow a discussion and contribute to it
• to disagree with others while respecting their points of view
• to come to group decisions
• to take part in reasoned argument and discussion
• to present to a small group or full class setting as appropriate

Reading :

• to engage in a range of reading tasks encompassing close study of set class texts, to include novels, a Shakespearean play and poetry
• to respond to wider reading texts, including daily newspapers, film and non-print texts
• to appreciate the importance that varied audiences and purposes have on content and meaning in a range of set and wider reading texts
• to use on-line research in relevant and appropriate ways

Writing:

• to practice essay planning, drafting and writing, following brainstorm and essay structure guideline
• to write competently and accurately, employing properly constructed sentence and paragraph form and accurate expression
• to write in a range of modes including personal, imaginative, informative and persuasive or argumentative modes of writing
• to employ a range of drafting, editing and self and/or peer evaluating procedures

Course Content

Semester 1:      Semester 2: 

Creative writing Folio	Single Text Study:  Romeo and Juliet
The Indigenous Voice in Australian Literature	Single Text Study:  Visual Text
Single Text Study:  Of Mice and Men	Appreciation of Poetry
Media Unit:  Advertising

Additionally, throughout the year, students will work on Creative Writing Folio tasks and engage in a Wider Reading program.

Assessment 

Examination

Analytical Writing  

Listening and Speaking 

Creative Writing