Macintyre High School
Stage 5 English overview
Year 9
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T Unit: Media / Visual Texts / TV News /
1 Webpages
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Types of Texts Used: Film, media,
multimedia, picture books
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9,
11
Quality Teaching: Deep knowledge;
Metalanguage; Problematic
knowledge; Connectedness
Assessment: Viewing/listening/writing
Unit: Shakespeare/Film –
Transformation
Types of Texts Used: Drama, film
(Romeo and Juliet)
Focus Outcomes:1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10
Quality Teaching: Problematic
knowledge; Knowledge integration;
High expectations; Cultural knowledge.
Assessment: Viewing/listening
T
3
Unit: Poetry – Forms and Meaning
Types of Texts Used: Poetry,
Multimedia
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11
Quality Teaching: Higher order
thinking; Background knowledge;
Metalanguage ; Deep knowledge
Assessment: Folio (ITC skills)
T
4
Unit: Travel through texts - oral
Types of Texts Used: Media,
multimedia, fiction, nonfiction, visual
texts
Focus Outcomes: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11
Quality Teaching: High Expectations;
Deep knowledge; Deep understanding;
Student self regulation; Social support
Assessment: Reflection/oral
presentation
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9
10
Unit: Close Study of Texts - Fiction
Types of Texts Used: Prose Fiction
(Tomorrow series, Deadly Unna)
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9
Quality teaching: Explicit quality
criteria; Narrative; Background
knowledge;
Assessment: Extended writing
response
Unit: True Stories (library wide
reading and research, plus
presentations)
Types of Texts Used: Nonfiction, TV
documentaries, biography,
autobiography
Focus Outcomes: 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11
Quality Teaching: High Expectations;
Student direction; Students’ self
regulation; Explicit quality criteria
Assessment: Reading and oral
presentation
Unit: Australian Drama
Types of Texts Used: Drama scripts
(Shifting Heart, The One Day of the
Year, Women of the Sun, And the Big
Men Fly)
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9,
10
Quality Teaching: Substantive
communication; Cultural knowledge;
Social support; High expectations
Assessment: Dramatic reading
Unit: Film Making / Film Study
Types of Texts Used: Film,
Multimedia
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,
11
Quality Teaching: Engagement;
Connectedness; Inclusivity;
Metalanguage
Assessment: Creative response to
film or filmmaking
English Stage 5
January 2005
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NSW Department of Education and Training
Curriculum K-12 Directorate
http://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au
Year 10
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2
3
4
5
T Unit: Short Stories – Responding and
1 Writing (genre, style, form, language)
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T
4
Types of Texts Used: Fiction and
nonfiction stories
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10,
11
Quality Teaching: Metalanguage,
Substantive communication; Narrative;
Student self regulation
Assessment: Extended written
response
Unit: Visual Texts – Cultural
Experiences in Australia
Types of Texts Used: Picture books
(The Rabbits, Memorial) Multimedia,
Nonfiction
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10
Quality Teaching: Social support;
Engagement; Cultural knowledge;
Inclusivity; Knowledge integration
Assessment: Written representation
Unit: Media Issues- Composing,
Reflecting and Oral Presentation
Types of Texts Used: Nonfiction,
Multimedia, Spoken texts,
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Quality Teaching: Higher Order
Thinking; Student self-regulation;
Student direction; Knowledge
integration; Inclusivity; Problematic
knowledge
Assessment: Oral opinion
presentation
Unit: Practical English – Composing
for Different Occasions
Types of Texts Used: Media,
Multimedia, Nonfiction, Everyday and
Workplace texts
Focus Outcomes:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10,
11
Quality teaching: Background
knowledge; High expectations;
connectedness ; Deep knowledge;
Deep understanding
Assessment: Reading/writing skills
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9
10
Unit: Close Study of Texts - Fiction
Types of Texts Used: Prose Fiction –
popular and youth culture eg: Lord of
the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Peeling
the Onion
Focus Outcomes: 1, 3, 6, 9, 10 , 11
Quality Teaching: Explicit knowledge
criteria; Background knowledge;
Narrative; Higher order thinking
Assessment: Literature analysis
Unit: Shakespearean Experience
Types of Texts Used:
Shakespearean Drama and Film
(Macbeth)
Focus Outcomes: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8,
Quality Teaching: Deep Knowledge;
High expectations; Background
knowledge; Metalanguage
Assessment: Viewing, listening and
representing
Unit: Poetry – Close Study
Types of Texts Used: Poetry,
Multimedia
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10 11
Quality Teaching:
Deep understanding; High
expectations; Background knowledge;
Metalanguage; Problematic knowledge
Assessment: Response to unseen
poem
Unit: Perspectives – film, visual texts
Types of Texts Used: films,
multimedia, visual texts.
Focus Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 , 6, 8,
11
Quality Teaching: Cultural
knowledge; Engagement; Problematic
knowledge; Deep knowledge; Higher
order thinking
Assessment: Creative response
English Stage 5
January 2005
Page 2 of 2
NSW Department of Education and Training
Curriculum K-12 Directorate
http://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au