Year+9


 * 2014**

[|Fiction writing exercises] [|Teaching teh Horror genre (fantastic site)] [|Genre Relay Race] [|An intro to genre theory for teachers] [|Cowboys and aliens trailer] [|Matching exercises- literary genres] [|A great crime fiction weebly with audio versions of stories and film clips] [|Scholastic - exploring the mystery genre (for younger students, but can be adapted)] [|Sherlock Holmes Museum Page] [|East of the web crime stories] [|east of the web sci-fi stories] [|World's best crime and mystery stories] [|Some great genre teaching ideas here]
 * Genre**
 * Science Fiction, Detective, Horror**


 * Speeches**

[|An excellent Stanford Uni unit of work about persuasive speeches] [|La Trobe Uni persuasion resources] [|Powers of Persuasion unit] [|Famous Speeches at English Central] [|Inspirational speeches from the movies] [|Top ten motivational speeches]

[|Penguin Teachers' Notes] [|From Page to Screen to Classroom] [|Author's official site] [|Seven Billion people - life stories unit] [|Metro Magazine study guide] [|Scholastic guide to The peasant prince]
 * Life Stories: The Peasant Prince**, Mao's Last Dancer



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 * UNIT 1** MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON AN ISSUE




 * Focus Outcomes: 1, 7, 9, 11**


 * Essential Questions:**
 * How do texts broaden our understanding of ourselves and our world?
 * **How do composers use language to inform and persuade?**
 * How are our responses to texts shaped by our personal, historical, social context and background?


 * The first unit in Term 1 is called, "Multiple Perspectives on an Issue". In class, an approach to researching and exploring an issue will be modelled. Students will then undertake their own research into an issue of their own choosing. The issue for 2012 is Animal Rights. Students will be presenting a speech about their chosen issue. Speaking resources and great examples of spoken texts below.**


 * Students will be focusing on how a point of view is presented in a range of different types of texts. They will therefore need to be explicitly taught the following vocabulary terms and how to identify/ describe the following:**
 * - purpose**
 * - audience**
 * - main idea**
 * - context of text**
 * - perspective (first person... etc)**
 * - bias / subjective/ objective language**
 * - in visual/ multimodal texts, how the compositional elements and interactive elements have combined to achieve meaning**
 * - modality**
 * - use of other rhetorical devices**
 * - structure and layout of texts (websites, feature articles, letters to the ed)**

Focus text types**: speech, websites, feature article, letter to the editor, editorial, expository essay, advertisements**


 * Students need to confidently discuss the point of view presented and understand HOW IT HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. Students may agree with or challenge the point of view presented, however, they must be given opportunities to express their point of view on the text. They should be pushed to discuss the perspectives included and the perspectives excluded or marginalised.**

1/ Programme
 * The programme is a work in progress. If you have any activities you'd like to add, please do so in the KLA Admin drive. I will then update towards the end of term.**

2/ Teaching resources** [|* Studying issue]s- an excellent website, particularly the issues forum and critical questions
 * [| Talkback Classroom]is a full unit of work about issues in the English classroom.
 * NY Times articles about [|cruelty to animals]
 * [|Animals Australia website] The Media Centre is particularly useful here and the ads are great. The Issues section is also very relevant. A close analysis of how this website is constructed would be excellent!
 * A great youtube clip on[| animal testing]
 * More videos on animal testing with Keynote
 * [| PETA-] People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
 * An excellent example of a speech by[| Adora Svitak] [
 * Another speech on [|Making a difference through the Special Olympics]
 * A UK educational [|animal rights website]
 * A poem from all-creatures.org being narrated with accompanying images and footage, called "I only saw her for an instant" (contains images of cruelty, though not very explicit)
 * [|Six blind men and the elephant]

__**Online research resources to show students**__ - in particular the eLibrary and the Points of View (the Australian / New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre)
 * ABC Learn website -** a collection of resources for teachers and students on a range of topics.
 * Google -** search variants, e.g. Google News, and using the search filters, e.g. time.
 * St. Leo’s Library** - the “Research Databases” section >


 * 3/ Academic articles to support teacher learning**

A thematic exploration of a novel
 * UNIT 2** THE DARKNESS OF MAN'S HEART


 * Will Durant, the great historian, once said that, "barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim."**

Rationale:

Focus Outcomes: 1, 6, 7

Essential Questions: Program:
 * What do literary texts say about what it is to be human?

Suggested teaching activities (these activities are optional, but will be eventually listed in the program)

Teaching Resources
 * Link to Sadaf's LOTF wiki**
 * Stanford Uni's article on [|the philosophy of evil]**
 * Link to[| Stanley Milgram's experiment] - an intriguing example of the human willingness to conform**
 * Link to [|"Lord of the Flies- For the teacher"]**
 * A great[| LOTF teaching resource] with links to websites related to man's inhumanity to man**
 * A game at [|Nobelprize.org] about LOTF**
 * Some great [|TWWB activities at this NZ site]**
 * Penguin Readers- [|The Wave]**
 * Quotations to inspire deeper reading of The Wave [[file:Quotations to inspire deeper reading of The Wave.pages]]**
 * The Wave passage analysis questions [[file:Wave passage analysis..pages]]**
 * Another teacher's guide on[| The Wave]**
 * The Wave - a website dedicated to //The Wave//, with primary resources, including the original short story, documentary, school newsletter articles, etc.**
 * [|Resources- man's inhumanity to man]**

UNIT 3 **IMAGES OF AUSTRALIA: POETRY AND COMPOSITION**

1/ Programme
 * Staff, this is a work in progress, please feel free to add/give feedback. New versions will be uploaded here.**

2/ Teaching Resources Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country and others: www.imagesaustralia.com/mycountry.htm
 * Australian Poetry Library: www.poetrylibrary.edu.au**
 * Australian Poetry and Poetry Education resource:** redroomcompany.org
 * Indigenous Australian Poetry:** www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/aboriginal-poems.html

Jason Nelson’s Digital Poetry > www.secrettechnology.com/ //Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. He is a lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writing and creative practice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.//


 * Tourism Australia** YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/australia

3/ AFL ideas, resources and handouts Please upload your files here for everyone to use (Adam - your 2 AFL tasks, please!)

4/ Academic articles to support teacher learning Shoemaker, Adam “The Poetry of Politics: Australian Aboriginal Verse” in Shoemaker, A 2004 //Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929–1988//, The Australian National University, Canberra. **[Entire book available online]**

Nelson, Jason 2011 “Poetry in the (Digital) Wilds”, July 6, If:Book Australia. **[A list of links to digital poetry collections and examples at the end of the article]**

Hayes, Susan 2011 "Hello Twitku, poetry finds its digital feet”, April 8, The Australian.
 * The not-so-academic:**


 * UNIT: Shakespeare Reimagined: A Midsummer Night's Dream or Much Ado about Nothing**

Focus Outcomes:

Rationale:

Program:

Teaching resources:

Check out [|The Globe Theatre's] amazing teaching resource on A Midsummer Night's Dream, complete with audio and video clips and oodles of activities [|Folger Library']s teaching resources for A Midsummer Night's Dream A very practical video from [|GSCE on]the language of Shakespeare (including scenes from A Midsummer) [|Folger's] resources on Much Ado [|RSC's] excellent resources on A Midsummer [|BBC GSCE] resources on Much Ado