2024 School Magazine

English The Contents of an English Education at Girls Grammar

Introduction 1 We All Do It, and We’re All Better For It: Ashley Foster-McGinn (12B), Scout Sommerfeld (12L), Amelia Pilgrim-Cowan (12O) on the Power of English at BGGS. 2 English 4 Curriculum Highlights 5 Making a difference through persuasive speech 6 Capturing our creative side with imaginative writing 7 Figuring out the Bard: growing our Shakespeare skills from ‘Midsummer,’ to ‘Macbeth,’ to ‘Othello’ 8 Lessons Learned 9 Be Passionate! To persuade you must believe 10 Analysis has a road map; you just have to follow 11 Hint! Hint! Hint! Shakespeare remains timeless 12 Literature 13 Curriculum Highlights 14 Making our own visual whodunnits for ‘And Then There Were None’ 15 Getting Gothic in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ 16 From Christie, to Atwood, to Harwood: The joys of female-written fiction 17 Lessons Learned 18 Creating your own twist: your own opportunity to spice it up 19 Exploring the importance of our very own landscape: The magical characterisation of the Australian bush 20 There are infinite stories within a book 21 English and Literature Extension 22 Curriculum Highlights 23 Discovering how and why we all “read” films a certain way 24 Challenging—and ridiculing— invisible ideology through a complex transformation 25 Active agency: The fun found in choosing our own focal texts for (almost) an entire year 26 Lessons Learned 27 No text is static in the mind of a reader 28 Sometimes less is more: discerning synthesis of ideas is your saviour 29 Ideology shapes the media/media shapes our history 30 Amelia Pilgrim-Cowan (12O), Scout Sommerfeld (12L) and Ashley Foster-McGinn (12B)

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