The English curriculum helps students to engage imaginatively and critically with literature and appreciate its aesthetic qualities. They explore ideas and perspectives about human experience and cultural significance, interpersonal relationships, and ethical and global issues within real-world and fictional settings. Students are exposed to literature from a range of historical, cultural and social contexts. Through the study of texts, students develop an understanding of themselves and their place in the world. The English curriculum explores the richness of First Nations Australian voices and voices from wide-ranging Australian and world literature.
What students study
Year 7:
- Life Writing
- Myths and Legends
- Blueback
- Superheroes
Year 8:
- Narrative writing
- Novel study
- Text Appreciation
- Ready to Start
Year 9:
- Persuasive writing
- Speculative fiction
- Novel study
- 12 Angry Men
Year 10 General Prep:
- Gothic Literature
- Novel study
- The Truman Show
- Shakespeare
Year 10 Literature
- Pleasantville
- Narrative Writing
- Shakespeare
- Dracula
Year 10 Essential Prep:
- Media manipulation
- The Outsiders
- Literacy Short Course (semester 2)
Kathleen Banks
Head of Department Languages
knich114@eq.edu.au
07 3881 4731