Program for Year 7 and 8
The aim of English in Years 7 and 8 as to enable students to use, understand, appreciate, reflect on and enjoy the English language in a variety of texts and to shape meaning in ways that are imaginative, interpretive, critical and powerful.
In Stage 4 students work at developing their writing skills by composing a wide range of texts. Students develop skills in speaking, listening and viewing by preparing and giving short speeches, interviewing and studying film and popular media.
| YEAR 7 |
| YEAR 8 |
Term 1 | Believe it or Not Flights of Fantasy (multimedia unit with a focus on reading/writing/viewing) | Term 1 | 'Heroes' unit - (multimedia unit with a focus on reading/writing/viewing) |
Assessment Task: creative writing | Assessment Task: Viewing | ||
Novel study (Dragon Keeper, The Tulip Touch, Parvana, Misery Guts) |
| Novel study (Holes, Lockie Leonard Scumbuster, The Book of Lies, That was then, this is now) | |
Term 2 | Novel (continued) | Term 2 | Novel (continued)
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Assessment Task: Novel (written response) | Assessment Task: Novel (written response) | ||
Indigenous Culture unit | 'The World Around Us' Poetry unit | ||
Term 3 | 'Faces of Fear' visual literacy unit (picture books by Gary Crew and film study: Jumanji or Twister or Jurassic Park) | Term 3 | Reality TV study - Conventions of various reality programs ___________________________ Assessment Task: Oral presentation of own Reality TV program concept |
Assessment Task: Viewing |
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Telling the story - short story study
| Novel study (Hitler's Daughter, Binna Binna Man, Space Demons, Blubber) | ||
Assessment Task: Speech | |||
Term 4 | Poetry writing unit (writing free verse, haiku, couplets and creating a portfolio) | Term 4 | Novel (continued) |
Assessment Task: Yearly exam - Comprehension and creative writing | |||
| Film Genre study (conventions of fantasy, mystery, comedy, horror, sci fi and westerns) |
| Humour unit - visual literacy focus |