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S121 THE POWER OF LANGUAGE - Unit Outline and Tasks

Approved FAST PACE Yr 9 U OutlineTasks S121. NOTE: Task Two due date extended to Friday 21 May at 4pm.

WRITING A RATIONALE - a guided scaffold for the rationale in Task Two S121

Due Fri. 21.05.21 at 4pm. Creative Response to 'Unpolished Gem'

S221 COMPELLING VOICES - Unit Outline and Tasks

Approved Yr 9 Fast Pace Booklet S221 - Please note that Task 1 will be held in week 7

Due Friday 27.08.21 by 4pm, Task 1 'Romeo + Juliet' essay and bibliography

due Mon. 8 Nov. by 16:00 Persuasive Speech, Bibliography and PowerPoint

Formative Tasks and Homework

Due Friday 29 Oct - Persuasive Speech Planning Table

Due 19.10.21 - Coding Stan Grant speech for persuasive devices

1. Introducing Poetry

Poetry Writing - 'Where I'm From'

My 'Where I'm From'

Due Tues. 30 March 2021, 4pm (only for double lesson Tuesday class) - Answers for 'The Basketball Star'

For Friday double lesson class (101 class). Due 30.04.21 For Monday 3.05.21 p.6 class (102 class) also upload here.

Thurs. 6.05.21 (102 class) or Fri. 7.05.21 (101 class) Persuasive Writing Task

LESSON DETAILS FOR 101 CLASS 25.06.21

General English Resources

SCOPE-Library-LiteraryTerms

POINT OF VIEW

Narrative Techniques: Point of View

LitCharts-Literary-Terms-And-Devices-Quick-Ref

172.adjectivesfortonefeelingsemotions

Descriptive Word Lists

FIGURES OF SPEECH BROADENING YOUR VOCABULARY

When do I use 'effect' and when do I use 'affect'?

The Importance of Theme and the Seven Universal Story Plot

Writing a Narrative (includes short stories)

Poetry

Poetry - the sestina

Writing and Punctuating Effective Dialogue

Visual Texts

POWERPOINT Types of Comprehension Questions

Words to Describe Mood

ParaphrasingStepstoGreatParaphrasingPowerPoint-TES-version

T2-E-189-Using-Higher-Level-Vocabulary-Fiction-Word-Mat-Pack ver 3

Homonym, Homophone and Homograph

t3-s-189-homophones-to-too-and-two-powerpoint ver 1

t3-s-191-there-their-and-theyre-homophones-powerpoint

T4-E-108-Spelling-and-Punctuation-Homophone-Chaos-Activity-Sheet ver 2

Strong verbs improve your writing in three ways

Figurative Language Kahoot

Commonly Used Idioms

Spelling

Grammar

SHOWING vs TELLING

Improving Your Creative Writing - body language cheat sheets

Production (Film) Techniques

words to describe character

Word-mat-lists nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs (helpful for creative writing).

Grammar Monster - look up grammar and punctuation terms for an explanation. There are short videos for some terms.

PowerPoint - How to use a Semi-Colon

'Romeo and Juliet'

1. ROMEOJULIETPreReadingBias

2. 'Romeo and Juliet' play script and a short article

3. Character Maps for 'Romeo and Juliet'

4. BOOKLET ISSUED IN CLASS on play 'Romeo and Juliet'

5. NEW link for Luhrmann's 1996 'William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet'

6. TABLES to help you plan/structure your essay - Task 1 S221

7. Script for film - includes names of some film techniques

8. BOOKLET ISSUED IN CLASS info. and articles on Luhrmann film

9. BOOKLET film stills and film techniques (some students had this issued in class - see note on cover and email 14.08.21))

9A. The Formal Elements of Film - the Big Four - this information is in the back of the booklet above

10. The MTV Generation and Luhrmann's 'Romeo+Juliet'

11. Elizabethan Language

*'Romeo+Juliet' Moving Image analysis of opening scene

*Media Techniques in Prologue (includes Prologue and gas station scene)

*Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet compare with Shakespeare's original work - Comparison of Act1 Scene 1 in play and film

*Spaghetti Westerns and 'Hawaii Five O'

*Guns and Violence in Baz Luhrmann

*Weapons in the Play and Film (violence of society)

Very short Baz Luhrmann interview

Variety of Resources for Luhrmann's 'Romeo+Juliet'

Romeo+Juliet SBS article and link to original SBS review

Baz Luhrmann looking back on 'Romeo + Juliet' (short film)

RomeoandJulietDicaprio1996FilmPowerpointGuide

'H2Oooohhhhhh: The Motif of Water in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet'

Baz Luhrmann comparison of film to play

BazLuhrmann-R+J (Ms Bos) general overview of the film

ACMI-Ed-Resource-RomeoplusJuliet - some useful material here - read the contents page and choose what might suit you

How can films be used to popularise classics? Paragraphs 1, 4 -6, 8, 10 -16 relate to Luhrmann's film.

Red Curtain Cinema

Baz Luhrmann's Life

'West Side Story'

SOUNDTRACK The Analysis of the Soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet'

Short extract from an article regarding the soundtrack - explains how soundtrack helps develop the heightened world of the film

'Romeo + Juliet' SBS article and link to original SBS review

Why Do Boogaloo Bois Wear Hawaiian Shirts To Protests? if Luhrmann was making his film now, would some characters be dressed in Hawaiian shirts? (No )

COSTUME ARTICLE

ROMEO and JULIET Introduction. General information about Shakespeare

'Romeo and Juliet' - Shakespeare's Life and Works

Lit Chart Resources for 'Romeo and Juliet' - the play

JOHN GREEN on 'Romeo and Juliet' - Crash Course Literature (2 films)

IntroductiontoShakespearePowerpoint

Shakespeare's World

FILM TECHNIQUES - Table 13.5 min FILM TECHNIQUES AND TERMINOLOGY - uses scenes from 'Lord of the Rings'

FILM TECHNIQUES - Helpful site for film techniques - used in class

Film Terminology/Cinematic techniques

'Strictly Ballroom' - first film in the Red Curtain Trilogy

Shakespeare in the Classroom

SAMPLE ESSAYS

Literary Archetypes

1. Archetype - definition and other resources

2. Twelve Character Archetypes

3. Over70LiteraryArchetypesDefinitionsandExamplesIncluded

4. Science Fiction Writers Workshop - Hero's Journey Diagrams (good)

ARCHETYPICAL CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS

Archetypes in Literature s (suggest you turn off the sound)

The Writers Journey Mythic Structure for Writers

Writing 101 - the 12 literary archetypes

What does the theme of journey mean?

23636-quotations-about-journeys

Three Types of Journeys

A Reflection on Life as a Journey

Being Heroic - or Not. Two short TEDEd films

Hero's Journey short film and other resources

ANALYTICAL WRITING

SAMPLE ESSAYS - mainly same as folder under 'Romeo and Juliet' tile. Essays 1, 2 and 3 are shorter

1. Template: BUILDING MY ESSAY

1A. BUILDING MY ESSAY - same template as doc.1 but includes essay q.

2. Building Body Paragraphs Yr 9

3. Integrating Quotations - detailed examples and some short films. Just use what suits you.

4. Sentence Starters for Essay Writing (P.E.E Structure) word mat - for the 'R+J' task you will need to use the terms 'playwright', 'director', 'editor' (not 'author')

5. Vocabulary to improve extended responses (word mat) - includes compare and contrast words. NB: Compare=noting what is similar, contrast=noting what is different

6. List of comparative words for essays

Connectives - especially note the words under 'comparing' and 'contrasting'

Analytical verbs

analytical-vocabulary

ESSAY Sample - very simple comparison essay - comparing the film and novel of 'Great Expectations'

Persuading an Audience

Approved Yr 9 Fast Pace Booklet S221 - scroll down to find Task 2, Persuasive Oral Presentation (there are some topic suggestions here).

1. TOPICS - lists to choose from

2. ESSENTIAL POWERPOINT

3. What Is a Rhetorical Device?

5. Keep this basic summary of rhetorical strategies in mind - a strong persuasive speech will include all these elements (although they will not have equal weighting)

6. iC Resources to help with research

7. Writing to persuade - the basics

8. PLANNING TABLE for your oral presentation

9. Twenty Hand Gestures You Should Be Using - but not all in one presentation!

10. PERSUASIVE WRITING ACTIVITY online learning

11. Stan Grant speech 'Racism and the Australian Dream' - this is the speech you will code for persuasive devices. It will be helpful if you listen to Grant deliver his speech while you read along on your photocopy. The link is here.

12. -how-to-write-and-deliver-a-speech

13. PERSUASIVE ORAL PRESENTATIONS how to

14. Better Slide Decks & David Epstein's TED Talk

The Top Five Talks on How to Give a Great TED Talk

Some thoughts on presentation anxiety and your lizard brain

Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - transcript and analysis

Examples of persuasive speeches (without props or technology)

9 Tactics of Persuasion

Persuasion in Advertising - the importance of the story and humour in advertising

Inspirational Speeches and Literature

Speech Critiques and Rhetorical Devices in Speeches

Sentence starters for giving your opinion

Revising Persuasive Tactics

Speeches: Female Education and Remembrance Day 1993

Six Techniques for Clear and Compelling Speech

Persuade - PowerPoint on persuasive speech techniques

Colour Psychology in Marketing (only if you have spare time)

Rhetorical Devices and My Persuasive Speech

simplified scaffold for persuasive speech

Poetry

1. Introducing Poetry activities

2. Literary Devices - revision film

3. Poetry Writing 'Where I'm From'

4. FIGURES OF SPEECH and lots of other useful vocabulary

5. SCOPE-Library-LiteraryTerms - a short but useful list of terms and definitions

6. LitCharts-Literary-Terms-And-Devices-Quick-Reference

6a. LITERARY DEVICES - a very detailed site

7. 'Ozymandias'

8. Suggested Poems for Task 1 - reading and oral presentation

9. Top 100 poems

10. Australian poems - by theme and occasion. Just be careful here - there are some very good quality poems listed here but others that are not quite so successful

11. POETRY FOUNDATIONS COLLECTIONS

12. EXPLORING POETRY

13. Poetry Out Loud

14. Persuasive Devices

15. Rhyme and Other Sound Devices

16. Why Are Rhythm and Rhyme Important?

ANALYTICAL VOCABULARY

Famous quotations about poetry

Ideas on How to Write a Poem

figurative-language-poem-1-sketch-by-carl-sandburg

how-to-analyze-a-poem

GUIDELINES FOR ANALYSING POETRY

Analysing Poetry

Poetry Analysis Template

What is Rhythm and Meter?

Rhythm in Poetry

A reading of 'The Man from Snowy River' docx

12 Types (forms) of Poetry - short description of 12 different forms of poetry

FOLDER: 'The Power of Poetry' - 1. glossary explaining different forms of poetry and a glossary of poetic terms, 2. techniques and devices and an approach to analysing poetry (with a sample), 3. explanation of odes and elegies, with samples. 4. Essay

responding to a poem mind map

'The Hill We Climb' - poem from President Biden's inauguration 20.01.21

'Acquainted with the Night' links to poem and analysis

'Lullaby'

Creating a More Persuasive Poetry Presentation

'Unpolished Gem'

Introduction to 'Unpolished Gem'

Why do people become refugees?

THE SURVIVAL OF CAMBODIA'S ETHNIC MINORITIES

RESOURCES ON 'UNPOLISHED GEM' AND THE AUTHOR

Detailed notes on 'Unpolished Gem' - the page references match our text.

'Meet Me on the Bridge' - film about overseas adoption (about 25 minutes long)

Classwork for double lesson Tuesday 16 March 2021

'Where Are You Really From - The Basketball Star'

Themes, Ideas and Values in 'Unpolished Gem' -scanned copy of class photocopy

NAPLAN

NAPLAN 2021

Writing a Narrative

Persuasive Writing and Narrative Marking Guides

27-naplan-2016-final-test-writing-prompt---sign-said-years-7-and-9

SET 1, SET 2 and SET 3: NAPLAN Sample Language ConventionsTests

SET 1 naplan lang yr9 set1 answers

SET 2 naplan lang yr9 set2 answers

SET 3 naplan lang yr9 set3 answers

Narrative Writing

Gothic Fiction

PAT Test

Pride and Prejudice

'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' - Agree or Disagree Activity

'Pride and Prejudice' questions to consider

'Pride and Prejudice' - life lessons

ATOM Study Guide - 'Pride and Prejudice'
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