English
Year 8 English
Term
Weekly Lesson Plan
- Week 1: English language’s influence on and from other languages (ACELA1540), Community speech conventions and identity (ACELA1541)
- Week 2: Rhetorical devices: metaphor, irony, parody (ACELA1542)
- Week 3: Persuasive texts in different media/modes (ACELA1543)
- Week 4: Internal paragraph structure: examples, quotes, substantiation (ACELA1766)
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Coherence in complex texts: lexical cohesion, ellipsis, connectives (ACELA1809)
- Week 7: Punctuation in formal/informal writing: colons, semicolons, dashes, brackets (ACELA1544)
- Week 8: Clause structures: embedding, variety, complexity (ACELA1545)
- Week 9: Nominalisation and its effect in formal writing (ACELA1546)
- Week 10: Assessment and review
- Week 1: How language evolves through technology and media (ACELY1729)
- Week 2: Interpret stated/implied meaning in speech; support/challenge ideas (ACELY1730)
- Week 3: Interaction skills: voice, vocabulary, effects like music/sound (ACELY1808)
- Week 4: Presenting diverse viewpoints with multimodal elements (ACELY1731)
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: How structure/language vary by purpose; using references for authority (ACELY1732)
- Week 7: Using vocabulary and structure knowledge to understand texts (ACELY1733)
- Week 8: Evaluating content credibility; finding author's viewpoint (ACELY1734)
- Week 9: Creating texts with opinion and multimedia elements (ACELY1736), Impact of mixed modes/media in texts (ACELY1735)
- Week 10: Refining personal texts for clarity and effectiveness (ACELY1810)
- Week 11: Assessment and review
- Week 1: Contexts and values in literature from various cultures (ACELT1626)
- Week 2: Country/Place, Identity and Culture in Indigenous texts (ACELT1806), Recognising different cultural/worldview perspectives (ACELT1807)
- Week 3: Share, reflect, evaluate arguments in literature (ACELT1627)
- Week 4: Representation of groups and reader positioning (ACELT1628)
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Intertextuality and appreciation of aesthetic features (ACELT1629)
- Week 7: Tone: humour, innuendo, wordplay, parody (ACELT1630)
- Week 8: Language choices in stories, essays, plays (ACELT1767)
- Week 9: Create literary texts inspired by others (ACELT1632), experiment with language and visuals for new literary texts (ACELT1768)
- Week 10: Assessment and review
- Week 1: Vocabulary for style, abstraction, specificity (ACELA1547)
- Week 2: Spelling accuracy: roots, nominalisations, patterns (ACELA1549)
- Week 3: Reading comprehension, writing responses
- Week 4: Visual/multimodal allusions and layering of meaning (ACELA1548)
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Writing imaginative texts (ACELT1630)
- Week 7: Develop imaginative writing by using figurative language to create vivid descriptions. (ACELY1738)
- Week 8: Experimenting with language/structure to improve texts (ACELY1810 – revisit)
- Week 9: Language unit overview (recap of term 3)
- Week 10: Assessment and review.
