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English

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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 
  • Teens in the media 
  • Writing for purpose 
Year 9: 
  • Persuasive writing 
  • Speculative fiction 
  • Novel study 
  • ​12 Angry Men 
Year 10: 
  • Media Manipulation 
  • A vehicle for change (poetry) 
  • Novel study 
  • ​Shakespeare or film study 


Kathleen Banks
Head of Department ​Languages​
​knich114@eq.edu.au
07 3881 4731​

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Last reviewed 13 June 2024
Last updated 13 June 2024