Our goals for this term:

Students will be learning how genres may grow and change over time to reflect new concerns and new values. The study of genre enables us to see relationships between texts, the ways they are similar and the ways they are different or even innovative.  The more students read in a genre, the more they are aware of the expectations it sets up. These expectations may be realised or disappointed, so confirming or challenging the ways that generic conventions are used to represent the world.

Students will be studying the evolution of the gothic genre using Dracula and Frankenstein and Hamlet  to see how these texts have been transformed and appropriated throughout time reflecting different values and concerns.  They will then use the conventions of the gothic genre to write their own poem or dramatic monologue based on gothic characters and gothic settings.

Our Goals