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Year 8 English – Term 3 Teaching & Learning Outline 2017 Jessica Anthony UNIT: AUSTRALIAN VOICES IN POETRY (Weeks 1-6) Assessment Tasks Task 1 – Annotation of ‘My Country’ (AS 2) Task 2 – Comparing Poems (AS 1, AS 2, AS 4, AS 5) Part 1 - Short answer questions on ‘Up the Country’ and ‘In Defence of the Bush’ Part 2 - Comparison task – ‘The Man From Snowy River’ and ‘Noonday Axeman’ Task 3 – Digital Story on Indigenous or Migrant Voices poem (AS 8) Task 4 – Creation Task with Writer’s Statement (AS 3 , AS 8, AS 9, AS 11) Task 5 – Recitation Task (a stanza from ‘The Man from Snowy River’ or own c hoice of Australian poem) (AS 5, AS 10) UNIT: AUSTRALIAN VOICES IN SHORT STORY (Weeks 7-8) Analysis Task Creation Task UNIT: EXTENDED PROSE (Introduction only, Weeks 9-10) Week Teaching and Learning Outline Assessment 1-2 UNIT: AUSTRALIAN VOICES IN POETRY Discussion of Australian identity and ‘citizenship’. Use The Citizenship Test resource to assist. Revise/teach poetic techniques. My Country Dorothy Mackellar, 1908 Page 4 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: metaphors, imagery, rhythm TASK 1: Annotation of ‘My Country’ Up the Country Henry Lawson, 1892 *Primary focus on the second stanza Page 15 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: rhyme scheme, intertextuality In Defence of the Bush Banjo Patterson, 1892 *comparison with 'Up the Country' Page 16 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: comparison of tone and authorial style TASK 2 Part 1: Short answer questions on ‘Up the Country’ and ‘In Defence of the Bush’ Annotation of 'My Country' Short answer questions to understand and compare ‘Up the Country’ and ‘In Defence of the Bush’. The Man From Snowy River Banjo Patterson, 1890 Page 19 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: Australian ballad genre Introduce TASK 5: Recitation. Teach oral delivery of poetry, show examples. Noonday Axeman Les Murray Pages 20-21 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: repetition, comparison with 'The Man From Snowy River' TASK 2 Part 2: Comparison task – ‘The Man From Snowy River’ and ‘Noonday Axeman’ Comparison task – ‘The Man From Snowy River’ and ‘Noonday Axeman’ 3-4 Indigenous Voices Municipal Gum, Oodgeroo Noonuccal Page 24 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: symbolism Dark Secrets, Brenda Saunders Focus: stanza, metaphor, personification No More Boomerang, Oodgeroo Noonuccal Circles and Squares, Ali Cobby Eckermann Migrant Voices Far and Near Ouyang Yu Page 27 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: simile, punctuation Unnamed Stephen Nguyen Page 28 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: rhyme, imagery Australia Ania Walwicz Page 29 of The Citizenship Test resource Focus: alliteration, repetition, metaphor, punctuation, breaking conventions - syntax, voice Australia, Zhang Yougong TASK 3: Digital Story on Indigenous or Migrant Voices poem of choice. Students choose images and music to develop a digital story Digital Story on Indigenous or Migrant Voices poem of choice. that represents the narrative, meaning, theme and mood of the poem. 5-6 My Speech Mali-Jose Bouquey De Araujo Winner of the 2016 Poetry in Action Challenge Page 30 of The Citizenship Test resource TASK 4: Create a poem using the vocabulary of a news article on a current Australian issue. Complete a short writer’s statement explaining the use of the source material (AS 3). TASK 5: Recitation task. Creation of poem and writer's statement. Recitation task 7 UNIT: AUSTRALIAN VOICES IN SHORT STORY Introduce power of story-telling and role in our national history. Teach conventions and features of writing stories. Show examples from the following categories. Colonial Indigenous Analysis of a short story 8 Migrant Young Students create their own Australian short story. Creation of short story 9-10 UNIT: EXTENDED PROSE Introduce and begin reading extended prose text.
