Wargomerrin News - Year 7

Celebrating Year 7 English

The study of English in Year 7 is focused on the Victorian Curriculum Achievement Standards. Students engage with reading, writing, and speaking and listening strands throughout the year. By the end of the year, students will understand how texts are created to be dependent on audience and purpose. They can identify and understand characters, plot and thematic choices made by authors. A range of language features are studied, with a particular focus on how language is used to create an effect or impact an audience. Students study fiction and non-fiction texts, both written and multi-modal structures, and will write in a range of forms, including persuasive, narrative, poetry, and informative pieces.

This semester students have been learning about all things poetry! In this unit students learnt about the visual and sound devices used within poetry to help the audience more easily imagine what it is the poet was trying to capture.  

For this unit students engaged with both written and spoken forms of poetry. They practiced being able to identify various visual and sound devices, as well as developed their craft in creating their own examples of visual and sound devices by producing a complete poem. This unit also allowed students to develop their speaking and listening skills with a poetry performance performed to their classmates on a poem of their choosing. 

The other topics for this semester include a text analysis on the film ‘Paper Planes’, as well as self-reflective writing unit called ‘My World, My Life, My Goals’. In these units students will explore various writing styles and formats, taking into consideration their intended purpose and audiences.  

Lastly, students have been engaging with their Book Club text throughout the year. This work will continue into Term 4 where students will be able to demonstrate all they have learnt about the characters, setting and plot, themes and much more!