Year+8

= __Welcome to the Year 8 English Wiki Page__ =

__Year 8 Course Outline__
Students in this level are provided with a balanced program, tied together by the three strands of **language, literature and literacy.** Student outcomes are designed around the **receptive** and **productive** modes. Pupils are encouraged to use prior knowledge and text strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the validity of content, credibility of sources and finding evidence in the text for the author's point of view. In particular, students are guided to explore and explain the way authors combine different modes and media in creating texts and the impact on the viewer. Opportunities for creative writing and poetry are provided with a focus on the planning, drafting and editing process. The language component of the course is desgned to enhance an understanding of how language has evolved over time and how language can be persuasive and reflect a diversity of viewpoints.

=Staff 2016= Andrea Digby Sam Dight Sarah Dixon Jacqui Franks Debbie Mantzandis - leader Wendy Steel =**2016**= Edward Scissorhands Word Wizard - sentence types, paragraphs, revision of Year 7?? Sp Reading - Gothic literature - include short films. Movie reviews. REal life non fiction ghosts?
 * Term 1**

CAI - Text REsponse CAI - Oral

Coraline - use reading strategies with that. Sp, Word Wizard - use material from Coraline - figurative language for generating mood. CAI Creative Response
 * Term 2**

Things a Map won't show you Only two pieces to compare Only a Game and Cloud Busting - ?
 * Term 3**

CAI - Writing Folio - Leaflet CAI - Comparative Essay

REporting The News Look more at persuasive news - current affairs and opinion pieces.
 * Term 4**

CAI - Oral - Change statement of reports - This should be a persuasive talk CAI - Writing Folio - letters about homework (option- news articles as well) Reading and Word Wizard - use news materials

Some classes may wish to pick out some elements of More Than One English at the end of the year. This unit is no longer compulsory.

=**__Unit 1 Edward Scissorhands__**= //CAI - Text Response// //CAI - Oral//




 * Other Materials**

=__**Unit 2 - Coraline**__=
 * Creative Response = CAI. Unit below has been adjusted for creative response work.**



Materials not relevant to 2016








[]= prezi by year 8 students in 2013 @http://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2014/may/09/reading-gothic-novel-pictures

@http://vimeo.com/29733360

__Unit 3 - Things a Map Won't Show You__
CAI = Text Response Comparative Essay - Only a Game and Cloud Busting. CAI = Writing Folio - Brochure - Guide to....





Other Materials

http://english.answers.com/sentence-structure/the-purpose-of-a-sentence-declarative-imperative-interrogatory-and-exclamatory [] = website for information on indigeous australia - links to Cloudbusting story Exploring form of poetry links to Ice Cream Headache and Aboriginal Actors is a news article about racism in Melbourne right now - links to Cloudbusting Story. All others above relate to Cloudbusting. = comprehension from COT @http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/ = episode 5 has been downloaded and put in library catalogue http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/1422747/a-poetic-journey-through-personal-identity http://splash.abc.net.au/home?WT.tsrc=Email&WT.mc_id=Innovation_Innovation-Splash|Secondary_email|20150708#!/media/512492/dust-echoes - animations of Arnhem Land stories

= = =__Unit 4 - Reporting the News (Support Materials)__= CAI - Writing Folio - Persuasive Letter (and possibly news articles) CAI - Oral -News Report



**Other Materials**
Modified unit for students with individual needs This pdf is the article about news gathering This pdf is an example persuasive letter about homework This is the second page of the example persuasive letter MNT used this template for "Reporting the News" and the online media

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-choose-your-news-damon-brown = a VERY HELPFUL ANIMATION about news today and how it comes from mutliple sources and how to find the news and read the news so you are objectively informed - also has lesson ideas. Above = Examples of how to write a news article - including students' work before and after amendment from teacher
 * http://splash.abc.net.au/digibook/-/c/1190931/news-reporting?WT.tsrc=Email&WT.mc_id=Innovation_Innovation-Splash|Secondary_email|20150218 = a series of short films on how to make a news item of three minutes.**



[] = web site with American talking persuasively about how homework is not a good thing http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/104210/feeding-the-24-hour-television-news-cycle http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/1190958/how-to-make-a-news-report - abc splash has a whole section on the news - looks good though haven't used - WHI

I used this template for "Reporting the News" and the online media []