Year 7

It has been a pleasure reconnecting with the students and being their full time English teacher again. We began this term by defining sustainable and delving into the world of associated vocabulary. We read a non-fiction article about the effects e.g. erosion, the 2010 unprecedented statistics that were based on the amount of rainfall in Australia and the corresponding seas levels, and the water cycle.

This term, students have a dedicated lesson based on writing with particular emphasis on gaining strategies to be able to write freely in assessments.

Year 8

The students have been finding out information about Malala Yousafzai in preparation for reading the memoir “I Am Malala; How one girl stood up for education and changed the world.” The students had the task of understanding specific vocabulary that related to the context.

This week they have learnt about the structure of a memoir, and are delving into the prologue to have the required background information to fully submerge themselves into the memoir.

This term, students have a dedicated lesson based on writing with particular emphasis on gaining strategies to be able to write freely in assessments.

Year 9

The students will be reading “Brown Girl Dreaming” this term. They are learning how a narrative can be written in verse and that the poet’s choices determine how the reader connects to the text. Poetic devices such as repetition, alliteration, personification, metaphors and similes are located and explained in terms of effectiveness.

This term, students have a dedicated lesson based on writing with particular emphasis on gaining strategies to be able to write freely in assessments.