Irene McCormack Catholic College Year 8 Course 3 English Course Outline 2018 Australian Curriculum strands Weeks Teaching content/focus Assessment addressed. Please note: Course 3 and Extension English both share similar goals: they extend students and prepare them for an eventual ATAR pathway. As such, the course content is relatively similar, yet differentiation occurs between them in the following ways: level of difficulty for assessment tasks and examination questions, complexity of analysis and concepts explored in the classroom, level of scaffolding offered to students, level of expectation reflected in the marking process, the level of student independence expected, and the level of sophistication facilitated through the modification of teaching resources. Appropriate pedagogy and differentiation is used to cater to the specific learning needs of students in each of these courses. STUDY SKILLS will be embedded throughout the year, including the use of graphic organisers, colour coding, mind maps, note-taking and mnemonics, revision questions, flash cards, retrieval charts) Term One: Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how 1-6 Short story Analysis TASK 1: different layers of meaning are developed through the use of (Receptive /Responding) metaphor, irony and parody (ACELA1542) 10% Introduce the features of a short story and how it differs to Short story comprehension a novel Understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the test Read and analyse the Re-cap narrative conventions (plot, setting, – internal structure of paragraphs through the use of examples, techniques used in one characterisation, point of view, style/language) quotations and substantiation of claims (ACELA1766) unseen short story. Respond Discuss tone, mood and atmosphere created in short stories with short answers or (resource on Groups) Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and paragraphs. Go through a variety of stories in class, modelling language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733) annotations, analysis and example responses (Due start of Week 6) Explore the ways that and viewpoints in literary texts drawn Destroying Avalon (Kate McCaffrey) from different historical, social and cultural contexts may reflect or ONGOING: Only Ten Baillie)
Irene McCormack Catholic College Year 8 Course 3 English Course Outline 2018 Weeks Teaching content/focus Australian Curriculum strands addressed. Assessment Please note: Course 3 and Extension English both share similar goals: they extend students and prepare them for an eventual ATAR pathway. As such, the course content is relatively similar, yet differentiation occurs between them in the following ways: level of difficulty for assessment tasks and examination questions, complexity of analysis and concepts explored in the classroom, level of scaffolding offered to students, level of expectation reflected in the marking process, the level of student independence expected, and the level of sophistication facilitated through the modification of teaching resources. Appropriate pedagogy and differentiation is used to cater to the specific learning needs of students in each of these courses. STUDY SKILLS will be embedded throughout the year, including the use of graphic organisers, colour coding, mind maps, note-taking and mnemonics, revision questions, flash cards, retrieval charts) Term One: 1-6 Short story Analysis Introduce the features of a short story and how it differs to a novel Re-cap narrative conventions (plot, setting, characterisation, point of view, style/language) Discuss tone, mood and atmosphere created in short stories (resource on Groups) Go through a variety of stories in class, modelling annotations, analysis and example responses Destroying Avalon (Kate McCaffrey) Only Ten Baillie) Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody (ACELA1542) Understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs through the use of examples, quotations and substantiation of claims (ACELA1766) Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733) Explore the ways that and viewpoints in literary texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts may reflect or TASK 1: (Receptive /Responding) 10% Short story comprehension test – Read and analyse the techniques used in one unseen short story. Respond with short answers or paragraphs. (Due start of Week 6) ONGOING:
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