Week 4 Term 2 - English Department: Junior + Senior English Program for Term 2 (May 12 - May 16)

 As a Department, we want to ensure that our curriculum and programs for each term is engaging and relevant for our students. We also want to make sure that our curriculum and term units align with the New Zealand curriculum and ensure that our students achieve and succeed in English. In this post I am going to share what we are going to do with our Junior and Senior English programs for Term 2. 

JUNIOR ENGLISH PROGRAM TERM 2

Year 9 + Year 10 English Program for Term 2

The focus and theme for Term 2 is "I see myself in texts". Our Year 9 and Year 10 English students will look, study and explore stories, texts and experiences of those in our community. They will also create their own text in the form of a Creative Writing. For my Year 9 English class, we are working through Term 2 unit - My Voice (you can see the unit here - Year 9 Term 2: My Voice) Our primary texts are the short texts that all explore our people uses their voices to express their opinion and thoughts. These texts are: 

Alicia Keys - P.O.W

Tupac - Sometimes I Cry

Sia Figel - Love Letters for Iona

Jillian Sullivan - Dear Ex Dad

We will study each text and the students write a short response to text for each text. Once we have done this, they will do the Term 2 Common Assessment Task which is Creative Writing. 

SENIOR ENGLISH PROGRAM TERM 2

Written text study is the focus for our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English students. Our NCEA Level 1 English program's primary text is Tusiata Avia's "The Savage Colonizer." We will be looking at four poems from the collection and the students will complete a reading log for each poem looking at the context for each poem and the language features used. The assessment to fall from the study is 91924 (Demonstrate understanding of how context shapes verbal language use). Our NCEA Level 2 English program's primary text is Doris Lessing "The Grass is Singing" and the assessment to fall from the study is 91104 (Connections Essay). Our NCEA Level 3 English program's primary text is Tim O'brien's "The Things They Carried." We are looking at three stories from the text and the students will complete a reading log for each story. The assessment to fall from this is 91478 (Connections Report). 

We are hoping our curriculum and program for Term 2 goes well for our students. We are confident in what we have planned and we look forward to working with our students through our learning journey.