Year 9 English

Core English Subjects (Year Long)	English Elective Subjects (Semester Based)
Core English	Literature
Enhanced English (E/A class only)	Writer's Workshop

Core English

The Year 9 English course is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. It is designed to broaden students' outlook on their world and increase their appreciation of a variety of texts.  It enables students to analyse and explain how language choices and conventions are used to influence an audience. In addition, students will examine the Intercultural Capability which assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens. 

Language 

Students will learn: 

To understand that Standard Australian English is a living and evolving language. 
To understand how author’s innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects.

Literature 

Students will learn: 

To analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts. 
To interpret and compare representations of people and culture in literary texts. 
To reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary values. 
To experiment with the ways that language features, images and sound can be adapted in literary texts and to create literary texts. 
To create literary texts.

Literacy 

Students will learn: 

To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity over content. 
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content. 
To apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension. 
To analyse and evaluate how authors combine language and visual choices to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts. 
To create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts. 
To use a range of software to publish texts. 
To listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes.

Enhanced English (Core)

The Year 9 Enhanced Accelerated English course is based on the Victorian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. The course covers a combination of the Year 9 and Year 10 English coursework. Students study a range of texts and extend their contextual understanding through the examination of themes, issues and literary structures. They develop their ability to use formal language to construct responses for different purposes and audiences. In addition, students will examine the Intercultural Capability which assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens. 

Language 

Students will learn: 

To understand that Standard Australian English is a living and evolving language. 
To understand how authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects.  
To compare and contrast the use of cohesive devices in texts. 
 To understand that roles and relationships are developed and challenged through language and interpersonal skills.

Literature 

Students will learn: 

To analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and discuss and evaluate their content and the appeal of an individual author’s literary style. 
To interpret and compare how representations of people and culture in literary texts are drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts. 
To reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary values. 
To experiment with the ways that language features, images and sound can be adapted in literary texts. 
 To create literary texts.

Literacy 

Students will learn: 

To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity over content. 
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content. 
To apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension. 
To analyse and evaluate how authors combine language and visual choices to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts. 
To create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features. 
To use a range of software to publish texts. 
To listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes and analyse how language features in these texts position listeners to respond in particular ways.

Literature

This Year 9 English elective is based on the Victorian Curriculum, which is organised into three interrelated strands: Language, Literature and Literacy. The unit aims to challenge and extend students who enjoy reading and writing through a study of classical and contemporary literary texts such as poetry, film and short fiction. 

Language 

Students will learn: 

To understand that Standard Australian English is a living and evolving language 
To investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, including allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor. 
To identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effects.

Literature 

Students will learn: 

To analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts. 
To interpret and compare representations of people and culture in literary texts. 
To reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context. 
To investigate and experiment with language features. 
To create literary texts.

Literacy 

Students will learn: 

To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content. 
To apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension. 
To analyse and evaluate how authors combine language and visual choices to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts. 
To create imaginative and informative texts. 
To use a range of software to publish texts.

Writer's Workshop

Year 9 Writer's Workshop is a dynamic course designed to ignite your creativity and develop your writing skills. Aligned with the Victorian Curriculum, this subject encourages you to explore your imagination, refine your storytelling abilities, and engage in the art of writing. This subject provides budding writers with opportunities to explore their creativity, develop essential writing skills, and build confidence in their voice.

Students will learn:  

 To understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects.  
To refine language choices. to discriminate between shades of meaning with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences.  
To analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features.  
To analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts.  
To evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts.  
To create texts for imaginative and persuasive purposes that reflect upon complex and challenging issues.  
To review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content. 
To use a range of software confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts.  
To plan, rehearse and deliver presentations selecting and sequencing appropriate content.