 Program for Stage 5
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In Stage 5 students build on the skills acquired in Stage 4 and are required to respond to and compose more complex and sustained texts. They will experience language through talking, listening, viewing, reading and writing in a variety of contexts which revolve around everyday communication and personal expression on literature and mass media.
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YEAR 9 |
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YEAR 10 |
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Term 1 |
The Quest (focus on narrative structure in various texts + close study of film Galaxy Quest) |
Term 1 |
'Change' visual literacy unit – Concept-based study, focusing on James Cameron’s Dark Angel, developing visual analysis skills |
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Assessment Task: oral presentation |
Assessment Task: Viewing | ||
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Novel study (The Whole Business of Kiffo and the Pit Bull, The Outsiders, Taronga, Playing Beattie Bow) |
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Novel study (After the First Death, Bend it Like Beckham, Z for Zachariah, Tomorrow when the War Began) | |
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Term 2 |
Novel (continued) |
Term 2 |
Novel (continued) |
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Assessment Task: Novel (written response) |
Assessment Task: Novel (written response) | ||
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Intro to Shakespeare Twelfth Night - conventions of romantic comedies and comparison with Mrs Doubtfire |
Shakespearean Tragedy - Romeo and Juliet | ||
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Assessment Task: Oral presentation | |||
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Term 3 |
Media unit: Advertising Study of visual elements and language of persuasion |
Term 3 |
The Aboriginal Experience - poetry study (Focusing on Oodgeroo Noonuccal's poetry and a range of indigenous texts) |
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Assessment Task: Viewing |
Assessment Task: Novel (written response) | ||
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Novel study (Peeling the Onion, Love, Ghosts and Nosehair, Games, Answers to Brut, Winter, I am the Cheese) |
Novel study (To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Cruel Nest, Lord of the Flies) | ||
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Term 4 |
Poetry and song unit Appreciation and analysis of various poems, songs, video clips |
Term 4 |
Novel (continued) |
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Assessment Task: Yearly exam - Comprehension, poetry analysis and creative writing |
Assessment Task: Yearly exam - Comprehension, writing and viewing tasks | ||
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Short Story unit (stories by Winton, Dahl, Earls, Carmody) |
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The art of persuasion – with a focus on language and visual elements of Bowling for Columbine |
