Year 9 English Tutoring in Blacktown and Online

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Week 1: English as a living language – creation and loss of words, evolving usage (ACELA1550), language and interpersonal skills – how roles and relationships are shaped through interaction (ACELA1551)
Week 2: Evaluation through language – allusion, evocative vocabulary, metaphor (ACELA1552)
Week 3: Innovation in text structures – how authors manipulate structure for effect (ACELA1553)
Week 4: Cohesive devices – connections, signposting, and semantic associations (ACELA1770)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Punctuation, layout and font – visual design for different purposes (ACELA1556)
Week 7: Creative clause and sentence structure – effect on tone, rhythm and clarity (ACELA1557)
Week 8: Abstract nouns – summarising and linking ideas across text (ACELA1559)
Week 9: Vocabulary for abstraction, precision, and stylistic control (ACELA1561)
Week 10: Assessment and review.

Week 1: Media and cultural context – how interpretation is shaped by perspective (ACELY1739)
Week 2: Listening to persuasive and entertaining texts – analysis of positioning (ACELY1740)
Week 3: Interaction skills – persuasive language, pitch, tone, music, and sound effects (ACELY1811)
Week 4: Planning and sequencing presentations for engagement and effect (ACELY1741)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Vocabulary and fluency – strategies for tackling complex texts (ACELY1743)
Week 7: Comprehension strategies – comparing and evaluating different representations (ACELY1744)
Week 8: Language and visuals – how choices construct meaning and opinion (ACELY1745), perspectives in texts – how issues and events are framed to influence (ACELY1742)
Week 9: Creating multimodal texts – persuasive, imaginative, and informative (ACELY1746)
Week 10: Review and edit texts for clarity, cohesion, and multimodal effectiveness (ACELY1747).
Week 11: Assessment and review.

Week 1: Historical and cultural contexts – how representation is shaped in literature (ACELT1633)
Week 2: Building a literary argument – from first impressions to full-text analysis (ACELT1771)
Week 3: Literary value – what makes a text significant and how views differ (ACELT1634), evaluating authorial style – familiar and unfamiliar literary texts (ACELT1636)
Week 4: Texts and the human experience – reflecting on representations of life (ACELT1635)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Symbolism and figurative devices – extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, icons, myths (ACELT1637)
Week 7: Text structures and language features – comparisons across texts (ACELT1772)
Week 8: Creating hybrid and innovative texts – parody, allusion, appropriation (ACELT1773)
Week 9: Experimenting with language, image, sound – humour, stereotype, and playfulness (ACELT1638)
Week 10: Assessment and review.

Week 1: Symbols, icons, and myth in still and moving images (ACELA1560)
Week 2: Spelling for characterisation, humour, and dialect (ACELA1562)
Week 3: Using software creatively to publish texts – layout, design, multimodality (ACELY1748)
Week 4: Reviewing and editing for structure, clarity and impact (ACELY1747 – consolidation)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Advanced presentations – visual/audio impact and persuasive control (ACELY1811 revisit)
Week 7: Representing arguments across media forms – structure and symbolism (consolidating ACELY1746 + ACELT1637)
Week 8: Evaluation through indirect means – literary devices and their effects (ACELA1552 revisit)
Week 9: Vocabulary mastery and text fluency – precision, register and abstraction (ACELA1561, ACELY1743)
Week 10: Assessment and review.