Informative Texts
Assignment Sheet
This is the major assignment sheet for this task. It is due at the end of Week 9 (29th September 2023)
| Yr 9 Informative Text Task.pdf |
1. Informative Texts
We will go through these PowerPoints in class to review what we have already learned about informative texts and credible sources.
| Informative Texts.pptx |
| informative texts.pdf |
2. Paraphrasing, Summarising & Quoting
We will go through the information in class. Paraphrasing, Summarising & Quoting (PowerPoint)
Attachment 1: Summarising practice activity - can work in groups or alone.
| Summarising practice.pdf |
3. Referencing: In-Text & Bibliography
We will go through the Powerpoint as a class - Referencing, in-text & bibliography
Attachment 1: Notes version of PowerPoint
| Referencing, in-text & bibliography.pptx |
| referencing.pdf |
4. Review: Academic Language, Nominalisation & PEEL paragraphs
Academic Language PowerPoint: Academic Language
Nominalisation PowerPoint: Nominalisation
| Academic Language NOTES.pdf |
| Nominalisation NOTES.docx |
| PEEL.docx |
| PEEL.jpg |
Connectives
Previous Year's Topics
- Schizophrenia
- Ancient Jewish weddings
- 1st and 2nd Tour de France
- The premier league
- The origin of FIFA
- Genetics of hair colour
- The origin of basketball
- Mustering cattle - methods
- Tutankhamun’s tomb
- The French Revolution
- Fly fishing
- Hardtails vs dual suspension
- Pollution
- The Black Death
- The Spanish Flu
- Outback Australia
- Concussion
- How music affects health
- The history of Cadbury
- Ebola
- How physical exercise affects mood
- How captivity affects animals
- Sleepwalking
- Climate change
- The Great Barrier Reef
- Dreams
- Social media & attention span
- How does social media affect attention span?
- The evolution of Broadway
- Apple vs Samsung
- Colour blindness
- ADHD
- Ghengis Khan
- Bipolar Disorder
- Fennec Foxes
- Electric cars
- The American Revolution
- Animal therapy
- Fast food & health
- Gratitude & wellbeing
- Fuel performance in cars
- Car transmissions
- Nuclear power & environment
- Benefits of pet ownership
- OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- NBA drafting process
- Social awkwardness
- Medical alert assistance dogs
- Drones & Military Warfare
- Habits of highly successful people