1 Reading practices and strategies
2 Visual representations
3 The development of English
4 A taste of Shakespeare
5 Fighting words: battle speeches
6 Allegory
7 Short story study
8 Australian English
9 Narrative viewpoint
10 Look who’s talking
11 Satire
12 Another helping of Shakespeare
13 Varieties of spoken Australian English
Rod Quin has a vast array of professional experience in education which has included roles such as senior curriculum officer for the Department of Education and senior education policy advisor. He is currently secretary of ETAWA.
Extracts from contemporary and classic literature examples
A Shakespeare chapter introduces the historical context, interpretations, adaption and language with extracts from a range of popular plays
Current media and persuasive text examples
Annotated text extracts and work samples
Extended learning tasks that can form assessment tasks