English 6 Week Plan

5 lessons per week (50 min) ACARA focus Week 1 Connection & Plot development Connection Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view (ACELT1620) Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625) Week 2 Imagery Creating images Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722) Reading Descriptive language draw a picture of the roundabout (p.277) Discuss own view of Scipios house Writing Words to describe senses The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Chapters 40-46 Guided reading groups for L/A Mid-learning assessment Collect mid-learning assessment for comparison to pre and post learning assessments. Are there improvements in structure and character Learning Experiences Reading If you could become a grown up right now, would you? What would you do? If not, why is it better to be a child? Writing Good beginnings, middle and endings Plot development, plot graphs Spelling Sounds: ar, a Soundwaves p.46 Resources The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Chapters 31-39 Differentiation Guided reading groups for L/A Assessment

Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (ACELT1621)

Interesting words (e.g. shemozzle, murmur) Adjectives, adverbs, prepositions Class list of useful words Revise week 1 task, plan, write and edit short story. Speaking and Listening Students bring an item from home and describe it to the class. Spelling Sounds: p, pp Reading Was the price that Barbarossa paid for his trickery fair? Writing Students begin their major writing project, intricately planning including character profiles, setting profiles Students complete draft Spelling Sounds: ir, ur, or, er Reading Students summarise their reading of the class novel. Writing Students continue to work on their major writing project. Discuss editing techniques. Soundwaves p.50 Soundwaves p. 48 The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Chapters 47-53 Guided reading groups for L/A

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Week 3

Letter to be sent home regarding watching PG film.

Planning & Drafting Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) Conferring & Refining Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impact (ACELY1726)

Self assessed writing

Week 4 Comparing film/book Conferring

Review Raves activity Targeting Texts pg. 44

Guided reading groups for L/A

Rubric: How well was the novel summarised including main events, characters and setting. Self & Peer assessed writing

Viewing Comparison of film/novel Students will create a movie trailer for their short story. Students will begin to plan what will be included in their trailer. Spelling Sounds: r, rr, wr Reading Examine published short stories. What adds and maintains reader interest? Writing Publish & illustrate final short story Viewing Students will get into groups of 3-4 and choose one of their short stories to turn into a movie. Students will create the movie trailer for their short story using voddio. Spelling Sounds: or, ore, a, aw, au Reading Read a number of short stories in different genres. Discuss preferences and how the audience is part of the writing cycle. Writing Revise task from week 1. Plan, write and edit own narrative in one period. Speaking and Listening The final part of writing is getting a response

Watch film The Thief Lord

Soundwaves p.52 Guided reading groups for L/A

Week 5 Publishing

Publish & illustrate Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728) Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance (ACELA1764) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720)

iPads Voddio App

Assess final short story Rubric Language use Interest

Soundwaves p.54

Week 6 Audience response

Guided reading groups for L/A

Post-learning assessment Collect post-learning assessment for comparison to

from an audience. Students share and respond to each others work. Viewing View each others movie trailers. Spelling Sounds: s, ss, se, ce, x(ks), c Soundwaves p.56

pre and mid learning assessments.

Peer & Self assess