1 Reading pathways
2 Our changing language
3 Short story study
4 representations of individuals
5 Satire
6 A lot of world: Representations of place
7 Parallel worlds
8 Look who's talking - poetic voices
9 For all time? Studying Shakespeare
10 The best years of your life? Representations of childhood
11 Into the fray - persuasive texts
12 Audience contexts/varying meanings
13 A matter of debate
14 Film study
15 The same old story?
16 Us and them: Identity and otherness
17 Short story study
18 Science speaks
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