Year 7
Year 8
Term
1
Personal Identity
Novel/Non-fiction: Bridge to Wisemans’s
Cover, The Colour of Sunshine, Playing Beatie
Bow etc / Mao’s Last Dancer (student
version).
Task: writing in fiction and non-fiction modes
with reflection.
Outcomes: 2,5
Contemporary issues in fiction
Fiction: Destroying Avalon / Kill the Possum
+ one other fiction text selected by students
Task: Discussion/ evaluation essay
Outcomes: 8,9
Term
2
Romantic and contemporary Poetry
(landscape poetry)
Poetry: At teacher’s discretion but consider
Wordsworth, Coleridge, as well as
Contemporary Australian and Aboriginal
landscape poetry.
Task: Poetry analysis and writing
Outcomes: 1,6,10
Satire
Animal Farm & Frontline
Task: Short-answer analytical questions on
one or two satirical texts. One will have a
visual component.
Outcomes: 4,6,7
Term
3
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare/Film
Task: Viewing/ Representing (group
performance/scriptwriting)
Outcomes: 4,8,11
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet and Romeo + Juliet
Task: Viewing/representing
Outcomes: 1,3,5
Term
4
Media Literacy
Factual texts: Media
Task: Speaking to a concept map
(group)
Outcomes: 3,7,9
Debating
(7&8)
Australian Voices
NAPLAN focus
A variety of texts
Task: Composing
Outcomes: 2,10
Debating
(7&8)
Year 9
Year 10
Term
1
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare/Film
Task: Viewing/Representing
Outcomes: 1,4,8,7
Gothic Literature
Dracula & short stories including
contemporary Gothic
Task: Listening
Outcomes: 1,5,6
Term
2
NAPLAN Preparation
Focus: Science fiction
short stories
Outcomes: 4 (Stage
4)
Macbeth
Shakespeare/film
Task: Viewing
Outcomes: 1,4,8,7
Term
3
Poetry: War Poetry
Selection at teacher’s discretion
Task: (Digital presentation –
transformation/representation)
Outcomes: 5,9,10
Humanism through
Science Fiction
(5 wks)
Outcomes:
2,3,7,11
Task: Creative
multimodal
Poetry: Bruce Dawe
Task: Oral personal
response
Outcomes: 9,10
School Certificate
revision
Media (TV, print,
website)
Outcomes: 2,3,11
Advertising techniques in
various media via short
answer analysis. Practice
multiple choice. Focus on
poetry analysis and
visual analysis. Practice
writing skills.
Term
4
Fiction and film study
Lord of the Flies / Fortress (film)
Task: Feature article
Outcomes: 1,6,9
Special program