SENIOR SCHOOL
English
English: Reading? Writing? Speaking?
Listening? Viewing?...THINKING!
This year, the English faculty has tried to
focus on guiding our students to understand
and think about the concepts and ideas
associated with texts. With this in mind we
have been encouraging English students not
only to remember the characters or settings
of texts but understand what that text
might reflect about our society, or consider
how and why the creator of a text might be
trying to persuade us to think something.
One excellent way to do this is to meet
those involved in the texts we study. Earlier
this year many students had the fortunate
opportunity of meeting and listening to
Michael Gerard Bauer, the author of the
very popular text, Don’t Call Me Ishmael,
studied by our Year 8 students. He was able
to explain his inspiration for some of the
very amusing anecdotes that he included in
the narrative. Students were able to witness
first hand \