Year 9 Term 1

Year 9 - Outline Schemes of Work for Term 1

This is an outline of the learning that will be taking place this term. Literacy, numeracy, international mindedness, high order skills in ICT and cross curricular links and connections underpin the learning at CISD.

Art and Design

Students will be encouraged to think inventively and imaginatively whilst building up an understanding of the visual language used by artists and designers within a design and expressive context.

  • Artwork in context - creation of art for hotel interiors. (live project-mixed media)
  • Chair design
  • Printmaking unit
  • Architecture as fashion-body adornment
  • Museum of Islamic Art - historical project

English

English is a core subject for all students and the four elements of writing, reading, speaking and listening are taught across the entire curriculum.

 Social Justice :

  • What is social justice?
  • To what extent does power or the lack of power affect individuals?
  • What is oppression and what are the root causes?
  • How are prejudice and bias created? How do we overcome them?
  • What are the responsibilities of the individual in regard to issues of social justice?
  • When should an individual take a stand against what he/she believes to be an injustice? What are the most effective ways to do this?
  • What does power have to do with fairness and justice?
  • Is it ever necessary to question the status quo?
  • Does labeling and stereotyping influence how we look at and understand the world?
  • What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and how does an individual's response to it reveal his/her morals, ethics, and values?

Novels, plays, poems and short stories will all be visited throughout the course and be a vehicle for learning and the enjoyment of reading for pleasure.

French

All lessons will include the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. The target language will be used as much as possible to assist student learning of the language and the build up of vocabulary and grammatical skills. 

  • Giving information about yourself and your family; talking about your personality;jobs and personality; free time and hobbies.
  • Talking about tastes in music; comparing tastes; why you listen to music; being a fan; what instrument you play; talking about going to concerts.
  • Getting to know an exchange partner's family and describing one's journey.
  • Asking for things and coping when one doesn't know the correct French word.
  • Asking for things at the table and being polite.
  • Describing good and bad things about one's stay.
  • Reporting on one's stay in speech and writing.
  • Talking about home country and host country and 'home'.
  • Talking about one's town and what there is there to do.

Geography

Unit 1. Making connections:  

  • Where is our place and what is it like?
  • How is our place connected to other places?
  • What do we know, think and feel about other places?

Unit 2. Population Growth - 6 billion and growing (fast)

  • Using data to study population distribution, density and growth
  • Population growth and resources - where the pressures are.
  • Population in the 21st Century, problems and solutions.
  • Controlling population growth - China's controversial 1 child policy 

Unit 3. What is development?

  • What is development? What factors do we need to consider?
  • What is development? How do we measure development and identify differences?
  • Indicators of development and The Human Development Index (HDI)
  • What is development? Why are different perspectives important?

History

History has moved on from learning about battles, dates and dead people. There are still elements of that of course, but the focus is very different. It is much more about looking at and interpreting information from a variety of sources, documents, letters, maps, photographs, posters, cartoons and so on.

Unit 1. Introductory unit what's it all about?

  • Who is the most important person I know about in history?
  • What's history got to do with me?

 Unit 2. Black peoples of America from slavery to equality?

  • What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a slave?
  • African roots: where did most Black Americans originate?
  • Slavery in Africa: a Portuguese turning point?
  • Sold into slavery: what was the reality of the Atlantic slave trade?
  • Freedom: how was it achieved?
  • From emancipation to segregation: how free were black people?
  • From segregation to civil rights: did the Civil Rights movement bring freedom for black people?

Unit 3. The franchise why did it take so long for British women to get the vote?

  • Three campaigning women: what were they fighting for?
  • Why did some people have the vote in 1815 and not others?
  • Who was struggling for political change between 1815 and 1848?
  • Why did more people get the vote in the second half of the nineteenth century?
  • What freedoms were women obtaining?
  • Who was campaigning for votes for women?
  • Why did women gain the vote in 1918 and not before?
  • Why did it take so much longer for women to get the vote?

Unit 4. Divided Ireland why has it been so hard to achieve peace in Ireland?

  • Why is the past so important to some people in Ireland?
  • Why was Ireland partitioned?
  • Why were there violent protests in Northern Ireland in 1968-9?
  • Why has it been so hard to achieve peace in Ireland?

ICT - Information and Communication Technology
  • Presentation skills - Video Production: the Digital Divide "When I was young..." memories of older people and the effects of technology on their lives Use of Window Movie Maker for incorporation of image and sound

 History

  • Digital communications - Model United Nationspreparation: emailing Embassies, Professors, joining in forums, posting comments. Researching global warming from the web, Geography and Science

Mathematics

Topic Heading to be covered  

1. Number

  • Proportional reasoning
  • Number calculations

 

 

 

2. Algebra

  • ü Sequences
  • ü Functions and graphs
  • ü Solving equations
  • ü Indices and graphs
  • ü Expressions and formulae

Concepts to be covered  

Adding and subtracting fractions, Multiplying by fractions, Dividing by fractions,  Percentage change,  Comparing proportions

Reverse percentage,  Using ratio

Proportionality,  Significant figures

Powers and roots, Standard form,  Rounding

Recurring decimals and reciprocals

 

Exploring sequences, The triangular and square numbers, Inverse functions

Quadratic functions and curved graphs

Simultaneous equations, Negative and fractional indices, Simplifying expressions

expanding and factorizing, Solving linear inequalities, Solving equations with brackets

Algebraic fractions

Using and rearranging formulae

Music

Fanfares 'War and Peace' 

Skills  

Composition, performance, improvisation, identify how music can be used to commemorate, celebrate and communicate different occasions, and evaluate the way purpose in music can affect the way music is used, timbre, duration, scales, tempo, tutti, ostinati, dynamics

Materials 

National anthems, theme songs eg. 10 o'clock news, sporting programme theme tunes

Brazilian Music  

Skills

Ability to identify  cross rhythms, polyrhythm's, syncopation, through singing, listening and performing, clavé rhythm, Brazilian instruments, African and European origins

Materials 

'Samba de Janiero'

Bellini plus excerpts of  Capoeiro and Maracatu

Film Music  

Skills

Musical devices used in film music to create mood, intention and suspense, chromaticism, dissonance, instrumentation, composing to a strict timeline, storyboard planning, developing themes and motifs to represent characters, moods and atmosphere

Materials  

Various film excerpts eg 'Narnia,'

 

Science

Topic Heading to be covered  

Earth in Space

  • Movement of the Sun and Stars
  • Days and Years and Seasons
  • The Moon and its effects
  • The Solar system
  • The Milky Way
  • The Universe
  • Man and Space

 

Measurements and units

  • Numbers and units
  • A system of units
  • Length and time
  • Volume, mass and density

Forces and motion

  • Speed, velocity and acceleration
  • Motion graphs 1
  • Motion and free fall
  • Motion graphs 2
  • Force, mass and acceleration
  • Friction
  • Force and weight
  • Action and reaction
  • Vectors and scalars
  • Circular motion

Forces and pressure

  • Forces and turning
  • Centre of mass
  • Moments
  • Stretching and compressing
  • Pressure
  • Pressure in liquids
  • Hydraulics
  • Air (and gas) pressure

 

 

 

Concepts to be covered  

Measuring angles, Circular motion

The Sun and its gravity, Rotation of the Earth,  Orbit of the Earth

Phases of the Moon, Eclipses, Tides

The planets, The stars and how they produce energy, The Milky Way and other galaxies, Space travel, satellites

Astronomy

Prefixes : G,M,k,d,c,m,u,n

Standard form,  SI units : Grams, metres, seconds, etc, Equipment for measuring Calculating density   

 

Calculating average speed

Calculating acceleration / deceleration

Gradients (graphs), Interpreting distance / time graphs, Interpreting  speed / time graphs

 

 

Force = mass x acceleration, Static and dynamic friction, Stopping distance, thinking distance, braking distance, Reaction time

Gravitational force, mass and weight

Action- reaction pairs, Vector addition

Centripetal force, Orbits: satellites, planets, electrons

Equilibrium, clockwise and  anti-clockwise moments

Stability

Calculating moments

Load, extension, spring constant

Calculating pressure

Calculating pressure in liquids, force multipliers

Pressure and volume

Manometers and Barometers