Year 9

 

Course Outline:

At stage 5 students respond to and compose a comprehensive range of imaginative, factual and critical texts using different modes and technologies. They enjoy, reflect on, critically assess and articulate processes of response and composition. They respond to and compose a wide range of simple and complex texts for pleasure, critical analysis and information-gathering, varying their approach according to a text's purpose, audience and context. They focus on details of texts to analyse meaning, perspective, cultural assumptions, ideologies and language.

Course Outcomes:

A student:

1              responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for 

                understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

            2              uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

            3              selects, uses, describes and explains how different technologies affect and shape   

                            meaning

4              selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to

                different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects 

                on meaning

            5              transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6              experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming

                experience, information and ideas into texts

7              thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex

                arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

            8              investigates the relationships between and among texts

            9              demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

10            questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects 

                on meaning

            11            uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for

                            learning with increasing independence and effectiveness.

 

Assessment Tasks	Outcomes	Weighting	Due Date
Persuasive Essay - Survival of the Fittest (docx, 42 KB)	1, 5, 6	20%	Term 1 Wk 8
Half Yearly Examination Viewing and Comprehension	2,4	20%	Term 2 Wk 5
Macbeth- Analysis	3, 4	20%	Term 3 Wk 5
Speeches	7, 8, 9,11	20%	Term 3 Wk 9
Yearly Examination (Feature Article/ editorial/report  on the migrant experience	8, 9, 10	20%	Term 4 Wk 5