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Year 9 English
The following literature based units are offered to Year 9 Students. Each unit is supported by a wide selection of reading material including class sets of key books. Click on the unit title to link to the supporting resources.
UNITS
| RELATIONSHIPS/FAMILY | SCIENCE FICTION | THE TEENAGE YEARS |
| FLASHPOINTS/CONFLICT/WAR | THE INDIVIDUAL | CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING |
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| The Pigman | Zindel | The Lion and the Lamb | Harlan |
| The Pigman & Me | Zindel | Crossfire | Moloney |
| Madame Doubtfire | Fine (Class Set) | The Family Book of Mary Claire | Spence |
| Change The Locks | French | Bridge to Wiseman's Cove | Moloney |
| October Child | Spence | House on River Terrace | Moloney |
| Park's Quest | Paterson | Friends of My Heart | Clarke |
| The Web | Hilton | White Guinea-Pig | Dubosarsky |
| Wolf | Cross | Strike | Harris |
| Canoes of the Dead | Kelly | ||
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| Cyber Cage | Higgins | I Robot | Asimov |
| Maphead | Howarth | The Keeper of the Isis Light | Hughes |
| Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left | Klein | The Day of the Triffids | Wyndham |
| Parkland | Kelleher | The Chrysalids | Wyndham |
| The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | War of the Worlds | Wells |
| Flowers for Algernon | Keyes | Timesnatch | Swindells |
| Space Demons | Rubenstein | ||
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| The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown | Byars | The Catalogue of the Universe | Maky |
| Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover | Byars | The Outsiders (Study Guide) | Hinton (Class Set) |
| Bingo Brown and the Language of Love | Byars | The Secret Sandwich | Morrison |
| Buddy | Hinton | Hot Pursuit | Troy/Francis |
| Buddy's Song | Hinton | Hold My Hand or Else | Clark |
| Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice | Danziger | Famous for Five Minutes | Clark |
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| The Silver Sword | Serraillier (Class Set) | Machine Gunners | Westall |
| Across the Barricades | Lingard | Tomorrow When the War Began | Marsden |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | de Bernières | Summer of my German Soldier | Greene |
| Friedrich | Richtre | The Endless Steppe | Hautzig |
| One More River | Banks | Pagan in Exile | Jinks |
| I am David | Holm | Pagan's Crusade | Jinks |
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| Going Solo | Dahl | No Gun for Asmir | Mattingley |
| Diary of Anne Frank | Frank | Zlata's Diary | Filipovic |
| The Secret diary of Adrian Mole | Townsend | Smokestack Lightening | Staig |
| The Climb | Hathorn | Johnny Hart's Heroes | Metzenthen |
| I Can Jump Puddles | Marshall (Class Set) | I Was a Rat | Pullman |
| Onion Tears | Kidd | Red | McCarthy |
| Letters from the Inside | Marsden | Gracey | Maloney |
| House of Tomorrow | Crew | ||
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| It's All in Your Mind | Butler (Class Set) | ||
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Creative
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Critical
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| Techniques for Creative Thinking | Tutorial on Problem Based Learning |
| Building Good New Ideas | Critical Thinking on the Web |
| Creativity Web | |
| Six Thinking Hats | |
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