English in Term 2

Year 7s will be learning about motivational and persuasive speaking this term, culminating in individual presentations.  Poetry and place is the focus for Year 8 students.  Each Year 9 class is reading a different novel, though most students will have the opportunity to read two or three of the following:  Waterhole, Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove, Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo, Worldshaker, and/ or Somewhere Round the Corner. Their culminating task in Term 2 is a reflective written piece.

In the Senior school, the Short Course in Literacy will be moving onto a more extended task.  The Year 10s are all working on current news and  issues in the media, so it will be important for them to be regularly accessing news and current affairs programs online, in print, or on TV.  It is also helpful for family discussions about current events to occur regularly.  Year 11 students in Essentials are exploring the influence of inspirational people, and Year 12 Essential students are preparing for their CIA – Common Internal Assessment item.  Kate Grenville’s   The Secret River is the text that 11 General English are studying in preparation for an analytical exam.  Finally, the Year 12 students are well into their creation of a public text exploring the insights that The Crucible and The Year of Wonder can offer our modern world. 

Any queries can be directed to me kmacd15@eq.edu.au

Kathleen Macdonald

Head of English