Centenary Heights State High School – Junior English Program
All units have been designed and reviewed to reflect the ACARA National Curriculum for English.
Year Level Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
8 Term 1 – Representations of Teens in a Global Context: Students study a class novel that focuses on teenage lives in the world. The novel is contemporary and may be set in another country, to give students a broader understanding of the experiences and challenges of others who live outside Australia.
‐ Written assessment: Paragraph responses to literature; supervised conditions
‐ Oral assessment: persuasive speech on an issue relating to the novel
‐ Term 2 – Representation of an Issue in Media Texts: Students will study an issue and how it is represented in a range of media texts and everyday texts, including newspapers, magazines, television news and Current Affairs programs.
‐ Written assessment: students write a letter‐to‐the editor in response to stimulus
‐ Oral assessment: analytical – deconstruction of a newspaper article
Term 3: Study of literary texts – students will study a range of literary texts, including short stories and drama scripts
‐ Written assessment: Students transform a short story into a drama script
‐ Oral assessment: Imaginative – students perform scripts
Term 4 – Indigenous Perspectives: Students examine a range of texts about and from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
‐ Written response: analytical essay in response to poetry
9 Term 1 – Where do I Stand? Focus on persuasive text: Students will explore a range of persuasive texts, focussing on how text composers use a range of persuasive devices and techniques to influence us to accept their points of view.
‐ Written assessment: Essay written under supervised conditions
Term 2 – The Australian Identity: Students will study how Australia and Australians are represented in a range of literary and non‐literary texts.
‐ Written Assessment: analytical response based on representations of an Australian group
‐ Oral Assessment – Persuasive – students will select an item suitable to presented as an Australian icon.
Asian Perspectives: Students will study a range of texts from Asian writers and about Asia, focusing on representations of people and places
‐ Written Assessment: students will write a narrative based on a gap/silence in a text
‐ Oral Assessment: analytical response based on representations in texts
Asian Perspectives: Students will study a class novel about Asia, or by an Asian author.
‐ Written Assessment: Students will complete an analytical response to literature under supervised conditions.
10 Term 1 – The World Out There – Students study a contemporary novel which may have an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander focus and contain a moral, ethical or social theme relevant to society.
‐ Written assessment: Analytical essay in response to the novel, completed under exam conditions.
Term 2 – Love and Conflict : Students will study poetry ‐ both classic and contemporary and a Shakespearean drama, focussing on universal themes in literature
‐ Oral Assessment – Analytical oral based on a selected poem
‐ Written Assessment – Imaginative script based on a gap/silence in “Romeo and Juliet”.
Term 3 – Truth and Lies: Students will study a range of media texts and how words and images may be manipulated to influence people
‐ Oral Assessment: Persuasive Oral based on a media text
‐ Written Assessment – blog, relating to a specific issue
Term 4 – Reflections of Life: Students will study a range of lifewriting texts, including biographies and autobiographies, and experiment with their own personal reflections in writing.
‐ Written Assessment: Personal Reflection