Daylesford Secondary College Semester Planner 2010
Unit Title: Year 9 English: Semester 1
Year Level/ VELS level(s):
5.25-5.5+
Teacher(s): Rebecca Anderson, Jenny Penaluna, Roger Gooding
Unit
Overview
Duration:
5 periods per week, 1 semester
This subject will provide students with a valuable study of literature and literacy. Students will
enrich their knowledge of text genres and develop their creative and analytical skills in preparation
for the demands of Senior English and Literature. Students will produce a folio of writing in
response to current issues and selected text extracts. Students will also take part in a debate and
complete an informal and formal oral presentation.
Unit
Objectives
READING:
 read, view, analyse, critique, reflect on and discuss contemporary and classical imaginative texts that explore personal,
social, cultural and political issues of significance to their own lives
 read, view, analyse and discuss a wide range of informative and persuasive texts and identify the multiple purposes for
which texts are created
 explain how texts are shaped by the time, place and cultural setting in which they are created
 compare and contrast the typical features of particular texts and synthesise information from different texts to draw
conclusions
WRITING:
 write sustained and cohesive narratives that experiment with different techniques and show attention to chronology,
characterisation, consistent point of view and development of a resolution.
 write persuasive texts dealing with complex ideas and issues and control the linguistic structures and features that support
the presentation of different perspectives on complex themes and issues. Students select subject matter and begin to use a
range of language techniques to try to position readers to accept particular views of people, characters, events, ideas and
information compose a range of other texts, such as feature articles, webpage’s and workplace texts.
 plan and deliver presentations, sequencing and organising complex ideas. Students write accurately punctuated,
grammatically sound and complex sentences with embedded clauses and phrases.
SPEAKING & LISTENING
 analyse critically the relationship between texts, contexts, speakers and listeners in a range of situations. When engaged in
discussion, they compare ideas, build on others’ ideas, provide and justify other points of view, and reach conclusions that
take account of aspects of an issue. In their presentations, they make effective use of the structures and features of spoken
language to deal with complex subject matter in a range of situations
draw on a range of strategies to listen to and present spoken texts, including note-taking, combining spoken and visual texts, and
presenting complex issues or information imaginatively to interest an audience
VELS /
ENGLISH: Dimensions: Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening
Competencies
Addressed
Please note:
These are not
reported to
parents but need
to be
incorporated
into the
curriculum and
correlate with
the Assessment
Outcomes that
are reported to
parents.
Assessment
Outcomes
Key
Skills Words
Understandings
COMMUNICATION: Dimensions: Viewing & Responding, Presenting
THINKING: Dimensions: Reading, Processing & Inquiry, Creativity, Reflection, Evaluation &
Metacognition
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Text response (essay and short answer questions)
Oral Presentation (research based)
Language analysis and response to issue
Planning activities
Writing folio
Classroom discussion
Semester exam?
 Keywords: motivations of character; author’s point of view; social,
cultural and political values; filmic techniques; logic and reasoning; analogies; metaphors;
evidence; quoting; referencing; creative writing options; poetic devices; bias.
 Essay structure; analysis of texts; forming views and expressing opinions; challenging views;
logic and reasoning; creative writing; language analysis; non print text response.
Teaching & Learning
Focus
Does not have to be weekly (e.g.,
can be broken up into units i.e.
Week 1-4)
Activities
Should include a basic overview of
tasks in that week or unit.
Literacy
&/or
Numeracy
Focus
TEACHING
RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT
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Please attach project
outlines, worksheets,
books, list page
numbers etc.
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1
Introduction
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Classroom
Management plan
Autobiographical poem
Creative writing task
Brainstorming for
writing piece
using concept
map
- version 1
Autobio poem.docx
- version 2
BioPoem.pdf
Please ensure you
have a range of
assessment as, of,
for learning tasks
throughout the
semester
Give a brief
description and
attach rubrics etc
Assessment
PICK A TOPIC
BELOW and write a
200 word story.docyr 9
English management
plan.docx
2
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
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Pre-reading activities
Creative writing piece
using ‘Timothy
Winters’ as muse
Grammar
3
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
Chapter 1-6
Have groups of students
develop quiz questions /& or
use quiz that’s attached and
select some for a Kiffo trivia
challenge
- grammar
4
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
Chapter 7-12
Have groups of students
develop quiz questions /& or
use quiz that’s attached and
select some for a Kiffo trivia
Class discussion
and teacher
scaffolding of
poem notation
and inference
techniques
Reading circles:
- Shared
and
guided
reading
Reading circles:
Shared and
guided reading
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Timothy
Winters.doc
Conventions of
language
Assessment
page 34 to end
of chapter 5
tasks.docx
- Chapter 2
Questions for
quiz.docx
- Conventions of
language
Kiffo and Pitbull
Teachers Notes.pdf
- Conventions of
language
Assessment
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Assessment
challenge
- grammar
Chapter 13-18
Have groups of students
develop quiz questions /& or
use quiz that’s attached and
select some for a Kiffo trivia
challenge
Chapter 19-24
Have groups of students
develop quiz questions /& or
use quiz that’s attached and
select some for a Kiffo trivia
challenge
Finish Kiffo
Have groups of students
develop quiz questions /& or
use quiz that’s attached and
select some for a Kiffo trivia
challenge
Radio project &/or assignment
possibilities from Teacher
Notes
5
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
6
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
7
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
8
The Whole Business with
Kiffo and the Pitbull
9
The Outsiders
Watch film
10
The Outsiders
11
The Outsiders
Film as text
Informal presentations
Writing task: Journal writing
and newspaper piece
12
The Outsiders
13
Issues
14
Issues
15
Issues
Reading circles:
Shared and
guided reading
See teacher notes
Assessment
Reading circles:
Shared and
guided reading
See teacher notes
Assessment
Reading circles:
Shared and
guided reading
See teacher notes
Assessment
Kiffo Radio
Documentary
names.doc.zip
Assessment
Brainstorming
The Outsiders teacher
resources
Assessment
Class discussion
and questioning
Scaffolding
newspaper article
structure
Editing and
drafting
Reading and
presenting
See teacher resources
folder
See teacher resource
folder
Assessment
See teacher resource
folder
Issues teacher resources
Assessment
Letter to the editor and
persuasive writing
Model examples
Peer review
See teacher resources
folder
Assessment
Editorial
editing
See teacher resources
folder
Assessment
Writing task: Themes in the
film and journal writing
Sections in a newspaper
Spelling
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Assessment
Assessment
16
Issues
Issues in the media
dEBATE
17
Issues
Issues in the media
Debate
18
Short story
Model short stories
19
Short story
Creative writing: short stories
Debate
brainstorm and
research
Debate
See teacher resources
folder
Assessment
See teacher resource
folder
Assessment
Analyse as a
group
Short story
Assessment
Assessment
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
CONTACT DETAILS / COSTS
MATERIALS & RESOURCES
TEXT / PRINT MATERIAL
Kiffo
English Basics
WWW
DVD / VCR
The Outsiders
SOFTWARE
Power Point
Microsoft Word