Lesson Four: English, Yr 7/9

Bringing it Together

Curriculum links: Year 7 – ACELT1625  Year 9 – ACELA1770

Resources you will need

Lesson structure

  1. Explain to the students that they now have access to some of the tools they need to compose an engaging piece of persuasive writing. Revise the last couple of lessons, and have students reflect and share on what they need to remember with regards to persuasive writing.
  2. Take some time to explore the ACARA website with students, engaging with the NAPLAN marking criteria and expectations within the writing task for persuasive writing.
  3. Run through the Lesson 4 Persuasive Writing PowerPoint slides.

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AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Learning Area: English
Year Levels: Year 7/Year 9
General Capabilities: CCT, L, PSC, EU, IU
Strands: Creating Literature/Text Structure and Organisation
Content Description: 

Year 7 (English Literature)

Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625)

Year 9 (English Language) 

Compare and contrast the use of cohesive devices in texts, focusing on how they serve to signpost ideas, to make connections and to build semantic associations between ideas (ACELA1770)
Elaborations:

Year 7

Using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text in a new situation.

Imagining a character’s life events (for example misadventures organised retrospectively to be presented as a series of flashbacks in scripted monologue supported by single images), making a sequel or prequel or rewriting an ending.

Creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary.

Year 9

Sequencing and developing an argument using basic language structures that suggest conclusions (‘therefore’, ‘thus’ and ‘so’) or give reasons (‘since’, ‘because’) or suggest conditionals (‘if’… ‘then’).
Cross-Curricular Priority:

Sustainability
Acknowledgments

This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed April 2019).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.

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