The Values in Narrative: Program for senior students. The Values of Narrative is a program for senior students examining aspects of narrative and how these are translated into popular culture. Aspects of this program are expanded in Wuthering Heights: C...
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Patrick Ness in Conversation Author of 'Chaos Walking' trilogy
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Fay and Jane: good farmers’ wives? Connections between Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice give students a new appreciation for the original text and a greater understanding of the role of literature.
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Developing a Textual Interest Project (TIP) An independent research project for a mixed ability Year 10 cohort around adolescent literature and the notion of Representation.
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Displaced persons: A thematic unit for Stage 4 This unit considers displaced people , particularly teenagers and the immigration issues that are debated in Australia and across the world.
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The Evolutionary Relationship between Man and Technology Relationship between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
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Ghosts and Monsters A Year 11 Preliminary Extension unit on James' Turn of the Screw and Heaney's Beowulf
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Coming Back by David Hill A year 10 unit based on a novel study , featuring issues and attitudes towards driving a car.
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On First Reading Fay Weldon's letters to Alice This article considers some of the implications of comparing Pride and Prejudice with Weldon's Letters to Alice on Reading Jane Austen
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Whose Canon? or who the Dickens is David Copperfield? Activities illustrating how to teach Dickens through selective passages in context for students unwilling to read the entire novel.
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The Fate of Love from Wimpole St to West Egg A comparison of The Great Gatsby and Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Sixty Lights: exploring ideas An exploration of some of the ideas in Gail Jones's rich and rewarding novel.
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Pursuing deep understanding in the Area of Study: The Namesake This unit of work uses the Teaching for Understanding framework to address the concept of belonging through Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake as the primary text.
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