Official documents

• QCAA Curriculum Resources for English 7-10

• Australian Curriculum for English 7 - 10

Examples of what schools are doing

• Year 9

  • Creative spoken: 12 Angry Men  

  • Analytical written: Film Unit (Marvel: Into the Spiderverse)  

  • Analytical written: Identity Unit (Novel: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief)   

  • Persuasive spoken: True Blue Heroes 

  • Speculative fiction –  imaginative hybrid texts 

  • Novel study –  possible novels include Harry Potter, and The Bone Sparrow 

  • Australian focus –  Australian Hall of Fame 

  • Drama study –  12 Angry Men Imaginative hybrid narrative – written  

  • Analytical essay – written  

  • Persuasive speech - multimodal  

  • Imaginative monologue – written 

• Year 10

  • Australian poetry and representations  

    • Imaginative narrative – written  

  • Novel study – possible novels include Animal Farm, The Wave, Of Mice and Men, and Deadly, Unna? 

    • Analytical essay – written  

  • Shakespeare –including modern transformations in film  

    • Persuasive speech - multimodal  

  • Satire – satirical artwork and social messages 

    • Analytical response – written