Our Goals

This unit encourages students to engage with the concept of The Novel as a Mentor Text, embracing ideas as to how novels present lessons to be learnt concerning the values of society and how they are represented. Students will explore Point of View, Narrative, Characterisation, Literary Value, Representation, Theme, Style and Genre.  They will consider issues in Modern Australia through the lens of a post-Apocalyptic context. Central to this unit is a consideration of how all texts are representations of the composer’s world and perspective.

Students will learn the structure of essay writing with a particular focus on thesis and topic sentences and how to apply evidence to their own analysis and evaluation of prescribed and related texts.

Our Goals

In Truth Over Time students investigate how notions of truth are shaped by context, particularly by political, historical and social frameworks that silence diverse perspectives. Students will consider how power structures impact the relation of truth and how authors seek to address this imbalance over time, to challenge cultural norms and incite change of perspectives. The unit will cover a range of colonial and post-colonial non-fiction and fiction texts in order to broaden student understanding of how truth is dependent on context and that truth may be multifaceted depending on personal experience. Students develop understanding of truth through a range of print and multimedia texts, transitioning to focus on documentary, and film texts The Australian Wars and Redfern Now: Stand Up to address what has been termed “the Great Australian Silence.”