Faculty Focus
English News Term 1
Year 7
Year 7s are completing their transition to high school journal entries leading up to NAPLAN. Teachers are thrilled with the students’ reflections on a range of topics: starting high school, making new friends, learning to find their way around our school and most recently, their camp/incursion experiences.
Year 8: Year 8s are writing a blog about the representations of an Australian identity, focusing on either the outback Aussie or the Aussie tradie.
Year 9: Year 9s have read the famous novel, The Outsiders and are learning how to respond to analytical questions on the characters, setting, plot and the author S.E. Hinton’s specific use of language.
Year 10: Year 10 English students and Year 10 Essential English are studying poems and song lyrics to identify poetic devices and to explain how the lyrics and poetic devices shape meaning.
Year 11: General English students are in the midst of preparing their FIA1 persuasive speech task. They have selected an Australian social issue and are preparing to present a TED talk with their perspective.
Essential English students are preparing for their FIA1, a response to written and visual stimulus on the topic: Language that works, which included workplace language and visual texts.
Year 12: General English students are in the final throws of their IA1, a feature article written for The Conversation website. Their analysis and comparison of representations in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mark Romanek’s adaption of Never Let Me Go have been challenging yet intriguing.
Essential English students have recently completed their IA1, a persuasive speech on a social issue in our region. They will move on to preparing for the CIA (Common Internal Assessment) which will take place in the first four weeks of Term 2.
English and Literature Extension students are part way through their IA1 task, a reader-centred reading of a film by an Australian director, as well as a theoretical defence of their reading. A fun task, to say the least!