Pukekohe High School
Year 9 English
Course Description
Head of Faculty - Kaihautuu: Mrs S. Saxena.
We build and draw on our knowledge of how language works to interpret and produce text in English. Learning how to use the English language can strengthen your identity and enable you to effectively communicate and participate in society.
The main skills and knowledge gained on this course are:
- making meaning of ideas or information they receive (listening, reading, and viewing)
- creating meaning for themselves or others (speaking, writing, and presenting).
On this course, students will become more effective oral, written, and visual communicators. Using a set of underpinning processes and strategies, students develop knowledge, skills, and understandings related to:
- text purposes and audiences
- ideas within language contexts
- language features that enhance texts
- the structure and organisation of texts.
Course Overview
Term 1
Whakawhaanaungatanga - getting to know each other and the world around us
* Students will demonstrate increasing understanding of language by exploring creating meaning and making meaning skills and knowledge.
* Personal reading challenges will also begin to promote individual reading.
Term 2
Reading assessment focus to build knowledge and understanding of how written texts are created for specific purposes and audiences:
* Unfamiliar texts
* Familiar written texts
Various texts are explored, with a particular focus on texts that are local to Pukekohe and Aotearoa.
Personal reading challenges will continue to promote individual reading.
Term 3
Writing assessment focus to build knowledge and understanding of how to create texts for specific purposes and audiences:
* Formal writing
* Creative writing
Personal reading challenges will continue to promote individual reading.
Term 4
Visual focus to build knowledge and understanding of how visual/oral texts are created for specific purposes and how to create visual/oral texts:
* Visual/Oral text - analysis of film
* Create a visual/oral text
Personal reading challenges will continue to promote individual reading.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
1 B5 x 2 exercise books
Pens
Where possible, a device as per the school's BYOD policy.
Pathway
Assessment Information
Students will be assessed in a number of ways:* assessment of written language
* evidence of learning
* oral and/or visual presentations
* assessment of reading skills
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