YEAR 9 ENGLISH
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places and spaces
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This unit will introduce you to Pakuranga College and its surrounds. There will be an intensive focus on written language skills as you build a writing portfolio that communicates ideas through a range of types of text.
Key assessments in this unit include diagnostic reading and writing tests and a media presentation. Click on the link to learn more.
Key assessments in this unit include diagnostic reading and writing tests and a media presentation. Click on the link to learn more.
Through the Looking Glass
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Strange things occur when you step through the looking glass. You could explore the Labyrinth in search of the goblin king, or have a conversation with a grinning cat. You might find yourself sucked into a strange comic book world, or re-writing the history of Fantasia.
Here, you will study a range of visual and written texts, in order to explore how strange new universes are communicated by various authors.
Step through the looking glass - if you dare!
Here, you will study a range of visual and written texts, in order to explore how strange new universes are communicated by various authors.
Step through the looking glass - if you dare!
Whodunnit
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Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the dagger. How are your detecting skills? Mystery literature has been one of the most popular forms of fiction for over a hundred years, with origins in the creepy fiction of Edgar Allen Poe. It was developed through the early 20th Century and is being reinvented for new audiences with Sherlock Holmes and CSI.
This theme will introduce you to some of the great writers of the genre and expose you to a range of text types associated with detective fiction.
To begin exploring, click on the link.
This theme will introduce you to some of the great writers of the genre and expose you to a range of text types associated with detective fiction.
To begin exploring, click on the link.
Oral Language: Debating
Uniquely Me
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As a teenager, it is sometimes difficult to be yourself in the face of peer pressure to conform. Movies and media tell us how we should act, dress and what kind of music we should listen to. Issues like bullying are increasingly making it hard to be different from everyone else, to be unique.
This unit will study some unique characters, who struggle to fit in and find their own way. We will begin to cover some poetry texts, and the focus of our essay writing will be a film study.
At the end of the unit you will use the visual language elements you have used to script and create a short film about the theme 'Being Me'
This unit will study some unique characters, who struggle to fit in and find their own way. We will begin to cover some poetry texts, and the focus of our essay writing will be a film study.
At the end of the unit you will use the visual language elements you have used to script and create a short film about the theme 'Being Me'
Twisted Tales
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Before there was TV, there were tall tales told around a fire. Some of these tales were written down and became our first children's stories - but they weren't all 'child-friendly'. Some were pretty twisted. Red Riding Hood isn't always rescued. And Snow White's mother tried to have her killed.
Click on the link to explore the side of fairy tales that isn't all happily ever after.
Click on the link to explore the side of fairy tales that isn't all happily ever after.
Language Skills
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BBC Bitesize offers a range of fun activities to help you with basic English language skills, including grammar, spelling and vocabulary.
Click here to access these activities.
Click here to access these activities.