English

The aim of English is to enable students to use, understand, appreciate, reflect on and enjoy the English language in a variety of texts and to shape meaning in ways that are imaginative, interpretive, critical and powerful.

The subjects currently offered by the English faculty include:

YEAR 7

Stage 4 Mandatory

  • Genre Study: Heroes, Myths and Legends
  • Narrative: Film Study
  • Close Study: Prose Fiction
  • Introduction to Shakespeare
  • Language Features: Mass-Media
  • Writing: Poetry
  • Public Performance: Debating and Improvisation

YEAR 8

Stage 4 Mandatory

  • Genre Study: Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy 
  • Text and Context: Australian Poetry
  • Drama: Shakespeare
  • Public Speaking: Speeches and Rhetoric
  • Institutions: The Media
  • Study Skills: Preparing for the English Exam

 Year 9

Stage 5 Mandatory

  • Area of Study: Change
  • Writing: Picture Books and Comics
  • Text and Context: Transformations
  • Representation: Advertising and television
  • Texts and Time: Poetry
  • Close Study: Shakespeare
  • Study Skills: Preparing for the English Exam 
Electives
  • Drama
  • Special Religious Education

YEAR 10

Stage 5 Mandatory

  • Area of Study: Prejudice
  • Writing: Short Stories
  • Comparative Study: Poetry
  • Auteur Study: Film Directors
  • Close Study: Shakespearean Tragedy
Electives
  • Drama
  • Special Religious Education 

YEAR 11

Stage 6 Mandatory 

English Standard

  • Area of Study: Physical Journey
  • Module A: Language Study - Impact of Language
  • Module B: Close Study - Poetry
  • Module C: Texts and Society - The Global Village

English Advanced*

  • Area of Study: Journey
  • Module A: Language Study - Satire
  • Module B: Critical Study - Poetry
  • Module C - Texts and Context - Transformations

Extension 1*

  • The Archetypal Quest
  • The Modern Novel - Post-Colonial 

* Advanced and Extension placements are by invitation. Academic performance in Stage 4 and 5 English, involvement in extra-curricular activites (debating, public speaking, writing competitions etc) and enrolment in the NOVA course Cinema and the Moving Image are all considered during the application process.

 

YEAR 12

Stage 6 Mandatory 

English Standard

  • Area of Study: Belonging - Immigrant Chronilces
  • Module A: Distinctly Visual - The Shoe Horn Sonata
  • Module B: Close Study of Text - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Module C: Texts and Society - The Global Village - The Castle

English Advanced

  • Area of Study: Belonging - Emily Dickinson
  • Module A: Texts in Time - Frankenstein and Blade Runner
  • Module B: Critical Study - Hamlet
  • Module C: Representation and Text - September 11: Bearing Witness to History

Extension 1

  • Choice of Genre, Texts and Ways of Thinking, or Languages and Values

Extension 2

  • Major Works Projects