1 Understanding genre
2 Terminology: Words you need to know
3 Analysing texts
4 Characterisation
5 Aesthetics and stylisticdevices
6 The Crucible
7 The Curious Incident of the Dog and The Good Doctor
8 Blackfish
9 Jasper Jones
10 Satirical cartoons, The Rabbits and Animal Farm
11 Assessment focus: writing for a public audience
12 Assessment focus: Persuasive spoken responses
13 The Drover’s Wife (play study)
14 The Secret River (TV series)
15 The Dry
16 The Happiest Refugee
17 Lion
18 A selection of Australian poetry
19 Assessment focus: Imaginative written responses
20 Assessment focus: Analytical written responses
Elli Housden is an experienced English teacher and writer. She has shared her love of literature and writing with students in classrooms in Australia and the UK and published textbooks in both countries.
Grace Loyden is the Head of English at Townsville Grammar School, was a recipient of ETAQ’s 2016 Peter Botsman Award, recognising excellence in English education in Queensland, and was on the writing team for the new English syllabus.
Virginia Ayliffe is a co-author on the renowned Shakespeare Unplugged series, which last year won the APA Educational Excellence award for best Secondary Series. She currently teaches at Somerville House in Queensland.
Questions follow Marzano and Kendall's new taxonomy of educational objectives, on which the syllabus objectives are based.
Assessment tasks and annotated model responses provide opportunities to create and respond to texts.