Year 7

Semester 1 Teachers

Teachers:

2024 Yearly Unit Overview

2024 Yearly Unit Overview Year 7

Units of Work

Task 1:

They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.

'I am the person who'

Folder: I am the Person Who

NOTE This is a short, get to know you style task, you will do this as well as the other unit listed.

'One person can make a difference'

Folder: One person can make a difference

Task 2:

They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts.

LINK: English Novel Class Sets

Link: MTBHS Book Lists- Please choose from this list, the following novels have units ready to go.

Folder: Hana's Suitcase

Folder: Boy Overboard

Folder: Two weeks with the Queen

Folder: Our Race for Reconciliation

Folder: The Unstoppable Flying Flanagan

Folder: Holes

Folder: Holes (Connect)

Folder: Runt

Folder: The Little Wave

Task 3:

They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence.

Setting: A moment in time: Dungeons and Dragons

Folder: Narrative Setting: A moment in time

Task 4:

They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts. AND They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning.

Transformative Texts

Folder: Choose your own adventure

Task 5:

Students interact with others and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.

Motivational Speeches

Folder: Text Production > Motivational Speeches

Task 6:

They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts. AND They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning.

First Nations Narratives

Folder: Text Response > First Nations Narratives

Task 7:

With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence.

Folder: Up

Folder: Hugo

Folder: Encanto

Folder: My Neighbor Totoro

Folder: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse

Ongoing: Forensic Reading

They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.

Folder: Forensic Reading

One Forensic Reading session per week (20 minutes)

Evidence of learning recorded in a student portfolio (students to MAKE A COPY of the master linked below). Teacher to decide how they will track student progress/ achievement as some activities are discussions and won't be recorded in their portfolio.

Create a DayMap Assessment Task for Forensic Reading, students copy their portfolio hyperlink- give a grade per term.