Year 7 English Term 3 Teaching & Learning Outline 2017

Simela Petridis (Pre-service teacher Adelaide)

Week Teaching and Learning Outline Assessment

2 UNIT: MEDIA

Persuasive Writing
Monday
Persuasive Writing - Can you convince me?

- Brainstorming activity
What does it mean to persuade?
What things are you persuaded by?

- Infomercials
- Adverts
- Posters TASK 1:
Can you convince me?
What techniques to people/companies use to persuade? Use Part a. Persuasive Pitch
examples. Assessment
- List of techniques on board paired with a hand out of
Part b. Product Persuasive
technique terminology. AFOREST
Flyer
- Terminology is explained and discussed with the class
(multimodal)
(emotive language, rule of three, rhetorical questions etc.)

Box of an assortment of items for students in pairs to use to

persuade the audience to purchase. E.g. a ball. Students are to Homework Mon/Tues:
use a minimum of 4 persuasive techniques to sell their product to Work on Persuasive Pitch
the entire class. The persuasive pitch must be thorough and use Assessment and paired flyer.
the techniques appropriately.
Paired with the Persuasive Pitch, pairs must create a designated
Homework Thursday:
flyer that is as equally appealing to the audience and reiterates Spelling Words
their pitch.
The aim of this exercise is to convince the audience to buy the
product.
Tuesday
Talk about convincing delivery factor in tone, use of expression
etc.
Can you convince me? assessment continued. Students have the
double to work on the assessment.
Thursday
- Spelling words distributed
- 15 min to get them stuck in books and do 1-2 spelling
activities with the new words.
 Second part the students will be performing to the class their
persuasive pitch. More time may be needed.

Friday
Excursion
3 Letter to the Editor
Monday
Letter to the Editor

- Brainstorming activity
- Who has read or heard of Letters to the Editor? What is
it?

Read an exemplar together.

Show the example of the first stanza annotated by me. Refresh
their memory in literary terms, similar to those used in Persuasive
writing. Introduce the contentions of a letter to the editor/letter,
urgency through emotive language.
Students are to annotate the rest of the letter following the task
sheet. TASK 2:
Letter to the Editor due
______________________________________________________ week 4.
(200-300 words)
- List 3 key issues that you struggle with in your day to day
life, think globally. (School uniforms, bullying, chewing
gum at school)
- Pick 1 of the 3 that you feel most passionate about.
Homework Tuesday: Letter
- You will then write a letter to the editor on your chosen
to the Editor
issue (200-300 words).

Tuesday
Entire double to write, refine their letters to the editor.
Drafts due at the end of the double.

Thursday
*Drafts Returned
Homework Thursday:
Distribute spelling word list Practice spelling words
Students are to use the paired activity sheet to revise the words
for 20min+ Words will be based on previous lessons.
*Pick an English essentials activity to work on based on the
evidence on what needs to improve from the drafts
 * Show an assortment of news reports and allow students to
critically assess them
Friday
The News

- Brainstorming activity
- How do we hear, see, know about the news and what is
happening around the world? What forms of media do we
source the news from?
- When we watch the news what do we aim to get out of TASK 3:
watching it/hearing it? What are the Fundamental rules of News Interview
broadcasting a news story? (who, what, where, why, (oral) (6 min long)
when, how)
- Read through Pearson English (check students have a
copy) pg. 178. Homework Thursday:
- Break Away Task Correct Letter to the Editor

Homework Friday:
Complete pg. 180 Pearson
English 7
- Analysing &
Evaluating
- Questions 9-12.
4 The News
Monday TASK 3 CONT
- Letters to the Editor due.
- Spelling Test/marks
Introduce New reporting task with paired assessment sheet.
- Explain the task and ensure they know there must be a
paired transcript.
- Get students to brainstorm ideas in their pairs on what
issue they wish to discuss, the scenario and the format of
news delivery. Use the planning task sheet. Homework Tuesday:
Work on assessment

Tuesday
Double lesson working on the news interview. Homework Thursday/Fri:
Spelling revision, work on
assessment
Thursday
Distribution of spelling words
Students are to use the paired activity sheet to revise the words
for 20min+ Words will be based on previous lessons.

Show an assortment of famous news

The remainder of the lesson will be allocated to working on the

assessment

Friday TBC
 Double designated to the assessment.
Oral Performances?

5 Critical Reading
Monday
- Spelling test/marks
- News Report Orals

Tuesday
News Oral Reports Remaining

Thursday
Distribute Spelling Words

Friday

6 Media and Visual Literacy

Monday
- Spelling test/marks

Tuesday

Thursday
Distribute Spelling Words

Friday
7 Monday
- Spelling test/marks

Tuesday

Thursday
Distribute Spelling Words

Friday

8 Monday
- Spelling test/marks

Tuesday

Thursday
Distribute Spelling Words
 Friday

9 Monday
- Spelling test/marks

Tuesday

Thursday
Distribute Spelling Words

Friday
Unit: Media
Assessment Tasks
*All assessment time frames subject to change

Task 1 Persuasive Pitch

Task 2 Letter to the Editor
Task 3 Oral Presentation News interview
Task 4 Critical Reading assessment
Task 5 ?

Paired Task sheet list:

Week 2:
- Persuasive Writing Techniques Tablet
- Persuasive Writing Assessment Sheet/ Planning Template
- Spelling Words
- Spelling Words Activity Sheet

Week 3:
- Letter to the Editor Annotation task sheet
- Letter to the Editor Assessment sheet
- Spelling test activity sheet
- Spelling test words *tbc
Week 4:

- Spelling test works *tbc

- News reporting Task Sheet
- News reporting Planning Sheet * attach how to sheets etc.

[Gather an assortment of famous news reports etc.]