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Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 7 Poetry unit (Back) 1. With a team of between 2 and 4 students perform a poem for the class. Performing a poem is about using voices to convey the main ideas of a poem to the audience. You will have to learn the poem off by heart and may also 'act out' important events in the poem and/or dress up as characters that suit the poem. 2. Collect 5 poems you have written into an Anthology and publish your book for other people to read. Include an introduction to your collection explaining your reasons for selecting each poem. Your book may also have illustrations. My Place (Back) 1. Create your own My Place text. Close Study of a Novel (Back) Each class studies a different novel 1. Write a character analysis. Holiday of a Lifetime (Back) In this unit you will select from 12 writing tasks. Each Task has a 'point' value. You must complete tasks to the value of 100 'points'. Year 9 Celebrity (Back) This is an 'options' unit. You will be presented with a scenario where you enter and win a competition to meet with a chosen celebrity. There is a wide range of writing tasks to choose from and you will write a variety of media texts such as feature articles, news stories and reviews. You will also read a biography or autobiography in this unit. Shakespeare unit (Back) 1. Select a speech of at least ten lines from the play you are studying: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream or the Merchant of Venice. Learn it off by heart and dramatise the scene. Deliver the speech to your class. You may decide to work in a team of 2-4 students. If you do each student must have at least ten lines. 2. Create a 'character life box'. To do this select a character you find interesting from the play you are studying. Then collect 6 to 8 objects that represent some aspect of this character's life. Next find a line from the play for each object. Present your 'life box' to the class explaining the items you have chosen and the lines you selected. Cinderella Rocks Unit (Back) 1. Create your own visual text where you 'borrow' (appropriate) some aspect of the text from someone else's work. Write 100 words explaining the main idea of your visual text and how you used the 'borrowed' part of your visual text to convey this idea. 2. With a team of between 2 and 4 people deliver a presentation to your class on the way a popular film 'borrows' from other texts. These borrowings can be visual or in the narrative. For example 'Shrek' borrows from fairytales like Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. 3. Write your own story borrowing from other stories.
Year 10 Teen Fiction (Back) 1. Read the set novel for your class and answer 10 questions on the novel. You may be given a question table with many questions and be asked to select your ten questions form this table. 2. Write an extended text on Teen Fiction. You can choose from four options: a feature article on Teen fiction, create a promotional website or poster or write a a script for a television interview with an author of a teen fiction book. Shakespeare unit (Back) 1. Create a text interpreting a line from the play you are studying (Macbeth). To do this select a line from Macbeth and interpret it in any way you like. Your interpretation may be in any medium. For some ideas look at the Bell Shakespeare 2007 'Make a Scene' website. 2. Write and deliver a monologue. To do this create a character or use one of the characters from Macbeth. Then write a monologue that expresses the character's thoughts and feelings about an important event, person or situation in his or her life. Your Monologue must be at least 20 lines. The monologue does not have to be in verse. Next learn your monologue off by heart and deliver it to your class. Both the written monologue and the delivery will be marked. Endlessly Echoing Words unit (Back) 1. Write an essay about the ways a song or poem influences the way people feel about war. 2. Write a text, in any form, that expresses your thoughts and feelings about war. 3. Evaluate your own composition, explaining how you approached the composition and what you learned about composing from this task.
Year 11 Elective 2: Close and critical Study of Text (Back) Each class is studying a different text. 1. Write an analysis of two scenes or two poems. In the analysis compare the two scenes or two poems and consider how the ideas in theses scenes or poems are communicated to the reader or viewer. 2. Write and deliver a 5 minute speech to your class. The question is:
Each class is studying a different text. 1. Write an analysis of two scenes or two poems. In the analysis compare the two scenes or two poems and consider how the ideas in theses scenes or poems are communicated to the reader or viewer. 2. Write an essay. You will be given a question to answer and your essay will evaluate the strengths of the text you are studying. For example, for those studying Post Colonial African Poetry, the question might be: How are oppressed voices depicted in the literature you are studying? In this essay you would need to:
Creative Writing (Back) 1. Write a Heywire story. 2. Write a narrative short story. 3. Critically evaluate your strengths as a writer by analysing the writing you have done in this unit. Identify the strengths of your own writing and the areas of improvement during the unit.
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