The common module: Text and Human Experiences explores what makes us human and the experiences that we share. Some specific aspects of the human experience explored include, the struggle with adversity, the pursuit of dreams and the search for identity.The universal idea of human experiences enables all students to participate and make personal connections with ideas in texts. Students have the opportunity to read and respond to a range of other texts, including websites, non fiction recounts, speeches, news articles and short stories. The prescribed text for this unit is the film, Billy Elliot. 

Our Goals

This Module C: The Craft of Writing unit of work has been designed to broaden students’ awareness of the possibilities open to them as the responders to, and composers of, texts. Students are encouraged to consider texts in unique and alternative ways, and will focus on the deliberate choices composers make when crafting and manipulating language to convey powerful ideas with precision. In turn, students will apply similar approaches of textual construction to their own compositions. These compositions will take the form of imaginative, discursive, persuasive and informative texts.

Our Goals

In this module, students develop an informed understanding, knowledge and appreciation of a substantial literary text, M.T Anderson's Feed. Through their development of considered personal responses to the text in its entirety, students explore and analyse the particular ideas and characteristics of the text and understand the ways in which these characteristics establish its distinctive qualities.

Our Goals

Language has the power to both reflect and shape individual and collective identity. In this module, students consider how their responses to written, spoken, audio and visual texts can shape their self-perception. They also consider the impact texts have on shaping a sense of identity for individuals and/or communities. Through their responding and composing students deepen their understanding of how language can be used to affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups.