English · Year 9

Lesson 1

Analyse how diction, syntax and tone work together to give a narrator a distinctive voice.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 2

Trace recurring symbols and motifs across a text and explain how their development builds its themes.

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Lesson 3

Identify the conventions of dystopian fiction and explain how they exaggerate real-world issues to critique them.

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Lesson 4

Craft a complete story in under 300 words using compression, implication and a single turning point.

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Lesson 5

Distinguish deliberate stylistic fragments from grammatical errors and explain the effects fragments create.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 6

Identify grammatical ellipsis and substitution as cohesive devices that avoid repetition and link ideas.

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Lesson 7

Choose precise abstract nouns to name ideas and emotions accurately in analytical writing.

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Lesson 8

Use dashes, semicolons and colons deliberately to control rhythm, balance and emphasis.

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Lesson 9

Explain how the historical and social context in which a text was published shaped its ideas and its reception.

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Lesson 10

Use the ‘what, how, why’ model to explain how an author's specific choices create effects on readers.

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Lesson 11

Use chunking, paraphrasing and vocabulary strategies to understand dense or older texts.

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Lesson 12

Prioritise feedback and revise a draft for structure, clarity and voice.

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Lesson 13

Read historical public-domain speeches as literary texts and explain why some words outlive the moment they were spoken.

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Lesson 14

Explore how an extended allegory builds a sustained system of meaning to comment on political power.

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Lesson 15

Investigate whose voices a text foregrounds, marginalises or silences, and how those choices shape meaning.

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Lesson 16

Write a reflective personal essay that develops an idea through anecdote, reflection and a genuine turn in thinking.

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Lesson 17

Use hedging and carefully chosen modality to make measured claims that match the strength of your evidence.

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Lesson 18

Identify tricolon, anaphora, antithesis and chiasmus and explain how their patterns persuade and stick in the memory.

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Lesson 19

Use concessive clauses and connectives to acknowledge an opposing view fairly and then answer it convincingly.

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Lesson 20

Analyse how speakers use ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘I’ and ‘they’ to unite, challenge or divide their audiences.

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Lesson 21

Identify appeals to credibility, emotion and logic and evaluate how effectively they persuade a particular audience.

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Lesson 22

Evaluate how statistics and graphs can support a claim — or be selected and framed to mislead.

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Lesson 23

Plan and write a persuasive speech that combines rhetorical patterns, appeals and a specific call to action.

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Lesson 24

Apply formal debate roles, targeted rebuttal and clash-based summary in a three-speaker team debate.

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Lesson 25

Examine how First World War poets represented conflict, from early patriotic verse to poems that tore down heroic ideals.

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Lesson 26

Explore how Romantic poets turned to nature to express emotion, imagination and the awe-filled experience of the sublime.

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Lesson 27

Analyse how dramatic monologues reveal a speaker's character — often more than the speaker intends — through a silent, implied listener.

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Lesson 28

Explore how First Nations Australian writers use literature for truth-telling and to express Country and cultural continuity.

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Lesson 29

Discover how the sounds of words — harsh plosives, soft fricatives, humming nasals — suggest meaning beyond simple imitation.

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Lesson 30

Analyse how colour, symbols, typography and composition work together to persuade in historical wartime posters.

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Lesson 31

Explore Standard Australian English, Aboriginal English and other varieties, and how the way we speak expresses identity.

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Lesson 32

Use appositive noun groups to pack detail into sentences concisely, and punctuate restrictive and non-restrictive appositives correctly.

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Lesson 33

Apply a timed strategy to interpret an unfamiliar poem's subject, tone, techniques and theme under pressure.

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Lesson 34

Link a poem's words and images to the historical context in which it was written to deepen your interpretation.

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Lesson 35

Structure a comparative essay using block and point-by-point methods, a comparative thesis and precise comparative connectives.

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Lesson 36

Deliver a short oral analysis of a poem with a clear argument, well-chosen quotations and signposting that listeners can follow.

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Lesson 37

Learn the features of tragedy, from the hero's fatal flaw to the reversal, recognition and catharsis that make the genre so powerful.

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Lesson 38

Discover how writers build tension, dread and humour by letting the audience know more than the characters do.

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Lesson 39

Explore the disguises, twins, wordplay and wedding endings that shape Shakespeare's comedies — and the darker edges beneath the laughter.

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Lesson 40

Investigate how films and musicals transform Shakespeare's settings and ideas to speak to new audiences.

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Lesson 41

Find out why Shakespeare's characters switch between verse and prose, and what those shifts reveal about status, mood and relationships.

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Lesson 42

Analyse how setting, props, costume, lighting and the positioning of actors create meaning in a film frame.

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Lesson 43

Sharpen your writing by cutting redundancy, wordy phrases and weak constructions without losing meaning.

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Lesson 44

Replace vague words like ‘shows’ with precise analytical verbs and use academic word families accurately.

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Lesson 45

Paraphrase and analyse Macbeth's ‘If it were done’ soliloquy to explain the conflict tearing him apart.

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Lesson 46

Compare different readings of a text and judge which is best supported by the evidence.

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Lesson 47

Write a film review that summarises without spoilers, analyses technique and delivers a justified verdict.

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Lesson 48

Learn the difference between quoting, paraphrasing and plagiarism, and create in-text references and a reference list.

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