Year 9, QLD Subjects

Subjects: In this year you will learn...

Science

Unit 1: Force and motion

Unit 2: Introducing chemistry

Unit 3: More chemistry

Unit 4: Code of life (Genetics)

Unit 5: Small world (Microbiology)

Unit 6: All about us (The human body)

Unit 7: The Big Bang and our universe

Unit 8: History of science

Maths

Unit 1: Algebra

Unit 2: Consumer arithmetic

Unit 3: Volume

Unit 4: Graphing

Unit 5: Coordinate geometry

Unit 6: Probability

Unit 7: Algebraic products

Unit 8: Statistics

Unit 9: Geometry

Unit 10: Number

Unit 11: Trigonometry

Unit 12: Surface area

Unit 13: Area and perimeter

English Skills

Unit 1: How to use English at Skwirk

Unit 2: What is English?

Unit 3: Skills by mode: reading and writing

Unit 4: Skills by mode: speaking and listening

Unit 5: Skills by mode: viewing and representing

Unit 6: Skills by text form

Unit 7: Skills by text type: film

Unit 8: Skills by text type: drama

Unit 9: Skills by text type: Shakespearean drama

Unit 10: Skills by text type: poetry

Unit 11: Skills by text type: picture books

Unit 12: Skills by text type: websites

Unit 13: Practice exams

English Texts

Unit 1: Novel: The Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Unit 2: Novel: The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

Unit 3: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Unit 4: Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Unit 5: Shakespeare: Macbeth

Unit 6: Drama: The Shifting Heart, Richard Beynon

SOSE: History

Unit 1: Australia to 1914

Unit 2: Australia and World War II

Unit 3: Australia in the Vietnam War era

Unit 4: Changing rights and freedoms: Aboriginal people

Unit 5: Changing rights and freedoms: migrants

Unit 6: Changing rights and freedoms: women

Unit 7: Investigating history

Unit 8: First Australians and the European Arrivals

Unit 9: Gold fever and the Eureka rebellion

Unit 10: Australia and World War I

Unit 11: Australia between the Wars

Unit 12: Australia after 1945 - the impact of new technology

Unit 13: Post-war Prime Ministers and Policies

Unit 14: The Russian Revolution

Unit 15: Conflict, consensus and care

SOSE: Geography

Unit 1: Australia's physical environment

Unit 2: Geography skills

Unit 3: Managing the future: Australian environments

Unit 4: Asia-Pacific challenges: world environments

Unit 5: The global citizen: ecology and economy

SOSE: Economy and Society

Unit 1: Changing the law: the Australian legal system

Unit 2: Our economy

Unit 3: The future of work

Unit 4: Political involvement

Unit 5: Potentials of democracy

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