The English faculty aim to foster in students a love of language and literature. Students will experience a wide range of literary and non-literary resources and will develop skills in creating, responding sensitively to analysing and evaluating these resources

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In English our students study a range of texts including

• prose fiction
• drama
• poetry
• nonfiction
• film

In each year students

In each Year students must study examples of

· spoken texts

· print texts

· visual texts

· media and multimedia which should, over Stages 4 and 5, include texts drawn from radio, television, newspapers, the internet and CD-ROMs.

The selection of texts must give students experience of:

· a widely defined Australian literature, and other Australian texts including those that give insights into Aboriginal experiences and multicultural experiences in Australia

· literature from other countries and times

· cultural heritages, popular cultures and youth cultures

· picture books

· everyday and workplace texts

· a range of social, gender and cultural perspectives.

Students will experience a wide range of literary and non-literary resources and will develop skills in creating, responding sensitively to analysing and evaluating these resources.

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