09 English

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Year 9 English students will develop their understanding of the three interrelated Strands of: Literature, Language and Literacy. The focus is on developing student knowledge, understanding and skills in: reading, writing, viewing, speaking, listening and creating.

Year 9 English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years and will be revisited and strengthened as needed. Students are also taught strategies for further development: grammar, spelling and punctuation. and clarity of ideas.

Students are exposed to a range of texts which they interpret, create, evaluate, discuss and perform. These include media texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and multi modal texts, with themes and issues involving levels of abstraction, higher order reasoning and intertextual references.

A specific focus on the development of language features and stylistic devices will extend their thinking and understanding of how and why texts are created for specific purposes.

Topics may include

• Media analysis
• Novel study
• Short fiction
• Intertextuality study
• Text production including: narrative, persuasive, oral, analysis and transformative