Year 9 English 2024

CONFORMITY AND REBELLION

We begin the year examining how individuals act in society. What pressures are there to be like everyone else?  What happens when you are different? How can an individual react when they disagree with the direction of a community? What is conformity and is rebellion the only option to make changes? 

Through the study of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis we consider how individuals conform and rebel. 

Term Two

We continue to consider diversity, equity and respect, with a focus on personal agency, through Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, a memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Drawing on your study of how art reflects life you will be completing an essay investigating a complex idea to do with conformity and rebellion, using Persepolis and real world examples your source of evidence.

There will be a semester 1 exam in 2024. 

Term Three:

PERSPECTIVE

You will participate in the Dr Norman Fary Public Speaking Competition. These will focus on an area of student interest and will be presented in a class TED Talk Conference.

AGENCY

In Term 3  explore the concept of agency through performances and the script of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. There is a focus on interpretation and performance of written scripts.

Term Four:

PERSPECTIVE

We study poetry, stories and art with the theme ‘Our Faces, Our Places’. It has been designed to explore a variety of Australian and Asian texts with a particular focus on perspective and place.