English Rights, Rites and Writes Year 9

English Rights, Rites and Writes is a course about our rights, how we can know if we are doing the right thing, and what we can do to make things right. 

This is an integrated course with Social Science so you will select this class and Rights and Wrongs on Line 7.

Our aim is to strengthen your writing skills to clearly communicate an argument.  We will also focus on our reading skills, to teach you to interpret what you read, and to question the truth when reading.    We will also aim to strengthen your thinking skills so that you are able to question the ethical issues presented through an historical lense.  “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” and your voice can be powerful when your own ethics are being challenged.

We will look at texts that relate to human rights, what it looks like when these rights get broken and what we can do to try and make sure we keep these rights. We will look at how people have been treated wrong by looking at parts of human history like slavery, the death penalty and some of the significant darker days of Aotearoa's history too. We will investigate social issues, problems of social justice and what actions people are taking to try and fight to fix the world's problems. So if you want to debate about controversial issues, learn about the darker parts of our world and heritage, and think about how we can solve the challenges of the future then this is the course for you.