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Matrix Term 2

Feb - Apr

Imaginative Writing

Lesson 1: Introduction to Realism

• The genre and style of realism; flash fiction form.
• Identify, evaluate, and analyse realist fiction.
• Show instead of tell and write with restrictions.

Lesson 2: Realist(ic) Setting

• Setting in realist fiction; scenes in flash fiction.
• Create a strong sense of place through language.
• Construct sensory imagery to characterise place.

Lesson 3: Realism and Character

• The fluid and dynamic process of characterisation.
• Characterise people, places, and animals.
• Write idiosyncrasies into characters.

Lesson 4: Writing Real People

• The importance of verbs in creative writing; characterisation from distinct perspectives.
• Create sharper and more evocative sentences by specifying verbs.
• Creatively write scenes from different perspectives.

Lesson 5: In-Class Writing Task

• Exam skills essential for creative writing assessments.
• Brainstorm and scaffold the beginning of a creative writing response.
• Write in response to a visual stimulus.

Lesson 6: Realism and Motif

• The importance of theme and motif in creative writing; nouns as descriptors.
• Describe actions instead of qualities of nouns.
• Analyse motif in Elena Ferrene’s The Lost Daughter, and plan flash fiction through motif.

Lesson 7: Plot and Structure in Realism

• Plot scaffolding for flash fiction; structural strategies for writing a whole piece.
• Analyse how GauZ experiments with narrative structure in Standing Heavy.
• Plan and scaffold the sequence of narrative and plot for your piece.

Lesson 8: Revising Creative Writing Skills

• Creative writing clichés, dialogue tags, grammar and language techniques, and what to avoid.
• Identify clichés in writing and avoid unclear language.
• Write dialogue in original and authentic ways.

Lesson 9: Major Work

Matrix Term 3

Apr - Jun

Perspective and Context

Lesson 1: Definitions: Perspective and Context 

• Perspective and context: how we see the world
• The different types of context
• A brief history of the Western world

Lesson 2: Contemporary Australia

• Engaging with context: mirroring, aligning or colliding with it
• Considering the perspectives of Goorie and Koori woman Evelyn Araluen and Gunditjmara and Bundjalung man Archie Roach
• Distinguishing between “insider” and “outsider” perspectives

Lesson 3: The Middle Ages

• How the feudal system shaped the literature of the Middle Ages
• A deep dive into Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Lesson 4: The English Renaissance

• The context of early modern England and the Great Chain of Being
• Shakespeare’s Richard II and the need to impose order on the world during the English Renaissance
• Analysing Richard II through its context

Lesson 5: Romanticism

• The 18th Century as a time of political revolt and the emergence of Romanticism as an artistic movement
• Romantic values in William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud’

Lesson 6: Realism

• Responding to the Romantics: the social critique of the Realists during the Industrial Revolution
• Appreciating perspective: everyday life, urbanisation and focus on poverty in Elizabeth Gaskill’s North and South

Lesson 7: Modernism

• Reckoning with the impact of World War One and World War Two on English literature
• Introduction to modernism, an experimental movement which grew alongside two World Wars
• A close study of Wallace Stevens’ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’

Lesson 8: Postmodernism

• Postmodernism is ours: defining the pluralistic, connected era in which we live
• Unreliable narrators as a reflection of suspicion of authority in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Lesson 9: Topic Test and Marking & Feedback

Matrix Term 4

Jul - Sept

Adapting Shakespeare (Comedy)

Lesson 1: Shakespeare and Much Ado About Nothing

• Shakespeare, drama, and Much Ado About Nothing.
• Read, view, listen, understand, and respond to texts.
• Express ideas and compose texts.

Lesson 2: Romantic Comedy

• Genre, comedy, and romantic comedy.
• Analyse how genre shapes ideas and values.
• Experiment with genre and reflect on genre over time and values.

Lesson 3: The Play in Production

• Production and adaptation.
• Identify the processes and values of adaptation and appropriation.
• Examine how meaningful connections between texts can enrich meaning.

Lesson 4: Dramatic Structure

• Narrative, and codes and conventions.
• Use metalanguage to analyse forms, features, structures and conventions.
• Analyse how conventions vary, explain how texts adapt conventions, and explore how texts shape identities, values, and experiences

Lesson 5: Language

• Language, style, marriage and courtship in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Analyse aesthetic features and figurative language and how they shape meaning.
• Evaluate how certain styles are privileged, how form shapes meaning, and how the style of a text represents larger movements.

Lesson 6: Perspective and Context

• Understand, analyse and evaluate how interpretation, context, and perspective shape texts.
• Explain how texts affirm of refute perspectives, and appreciate how context informs texts.

Lesson 7: Developing an Argument

• Argument and rhetoric.
• Evaluate how effective arguments are constructed through form, feature and structure.
• Analyse how subjectivity and objectivity form arguments to represent perspectives.

Lesson 8: Reflecting on the Play

• Literary value and reflections.
• Analyse and evaluate aesthetic qualities and value; reflect and evaluate using technical vocabulary.
• Discuss the process of composition, evaluate effectiveness of choices, and evaluate ability to plan and revise.

Lesson 9: Topic Test and Marking & Feedback

Module 2

Imaginative Writing

Lesson 1: Introduction to Realism

• The genre and style of realism; flash fiction form.
• Identify, evaluate, and analyse realist fiction.
• Show instead of tell and write with restrictions.

Lesson 2: Realist(ic) Setting

• Setting in realist fiction; scenes in flash fiction.
• Create a strong sense of place through language.
• Construct sensory imagery to characterise place.

Lesson 3: Realism and Character

• The fluid and dynamic process of characterisation.
• Characterise people, places, and animals.
• Write idiosyncrasies into characters.

Lesson 4: Writing Real People

• The importance of verbs in creative writing; characterisation from distinct perspectives.
• Create sharper and more evocative sentences by specifying verbs.
• Creatively write scenes from different perspectives.

Lesson 5: In-Class Writing Task

• Exam skills essential for creative writing assessments.
• Brainstorm and scaffold the beginning of a creative writing response.
• Write in response to a visual stimulus.

Lesson 6: Realism and Motif

• The importance of theme and motif in creative writing; nouns as descriptors.
• Describe actions instead of qualities of nouns.
• Analyse motif in Elena Ferrene’s The Lost Daughter, and plan flash fiction through motif.

Lesson 7: Plot and Structure in Realism

• Plot scaffolding for flash fiction; structural strategies for writing a whole piece.
• Analyse how GauZ experiments with narrative structure in Standing Heavy.
• Plan and scaffold the sequence of narrative and plot for your piece.

Lesson 8: Revising Creative Writing Skills

• Creative writing clichés, dialogue tags, grammar and language techniques, and what to avoid.
• Identify clichés in writing and avoid unclear language.
• Write dialogue in original and authentic ways.

Lesson 9: Major Work

Module 3

Perspective and Context

Lesson 1: Introduction to Romanticism

• The origins, features, and values of Romanticism; six key Romantic poets.
• Analyse a painting and a poem.
• Identify features and values of Romanticism.

Lesson 2: The Sublime and Solitude

• The concept of the sublime, and the significance of solitude to Romantics.
• Distinguish Romantic vs. Realist features.
• Assess importance of contextual factors on Romantic texts.

Lesson 3: Introduction to the Gothic

• Features of the Gothic and relationship to Romanticism, Gothic elements in Wuthering Heights, and Gothic qualities such as the macabre.
• Recognise Gothic features, and reflect on different iterations of the Gothic.
• Compose a body paragraph analysing Gothic features in Wuthering Heights.

Lesson 4: Gothic Romance

• Romantic and Gothic conceptions of love, conventions of Gothic romance, and the relationship between the two.
• Analyse the poetry of John Keats and Wuthering Heights.
• Compare Romantic and Gothic representations of love; write creatively in both modes.

Lesson 5: In-Class Writing Task

• The process of analytical writing.
• Produce an extended analytical response to the Romantic and Gothic movements.
• Submit In-Class writing task for detailed feedback.

Lesson 6: Romanticising Death

• Romantic representations of death and Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale.
• Think critically about romanticised depictions of death.
• Analyse Keats’ poetry in detail.

Lesson 7: Dark Romanticism

• Features of Dark Romanticism and its relationship to Romanticism; Edgar Allan Poe and his role in both movements.
• Recognise features of Dark Romanticism
• Analyse a poem demonstrating both. movements, and appreciate literary features of place.

Lesson 8: Death in the Gothic

• Representations of death in Crimson Peak, and processes for drafting an analytical paragraph.
• Compare Gothic and Romantic texts.
• Develop a thesis statement, structure an essay, and organise evidence and analysis.

Lesson 9: Topic Test

Module 4

Adapting Shakespeare (Comedy)

Lesson 1: Shakespeare and Much Ado About Nothing

• Shakespeare, drama, and Much Ado About Nothing.
• Read, view, listen, understand, and respond to texts.
• Express ideas and compose texts.

Lesson 2: Romantic Comedy

• Genre, comedy, and romantic comedy.
• Analyse how genre shapes ideas and values.
• Experiment with genre and reflect on genre over time and values.

Lesson 3: The Play in Production

• Production and adaptation.
• Identify the processes and values of adaptation and appropriation.
• Examine how meaningful connections between texts can enrich meaning.

Lesson 4: Dramatic Structure

• Narrative, and codes and conventions.
• Use metalanguage to analyse forms, features, structures and conventions.
• Analyse how conventions vary, explain how texts adapt conventions, and explore how texts shape identities, values, and experiences

Lesson 5: Language

• Language, style, marriage and courtship in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Analyse aesthetic features and figurative language and how they shape meaning.
• Evaluate how certain styles are privileged, how form shapes meaning, and how the style of a text represents larger movements.

Lesson 6: Perspective and Context

• Understand, analyse and evaluate how interpretation, context, and perspective shape texts.
• Explain how texts affirm of refute perspectives, and appreciate how context informs texts.

Lesson 7: Developing an Argument

• Argument and rhetoric.
• Evaluate how effective arguments are constructed through form, feature and structure.
• Analyse how subjectivity and objectivity form arguments to represent perspectives.

Lesson 8: Reflecting on the Play

• Literary value and reflections.
• Analyse and evaluate aesthetic qualities and value; reflect and evaluate using technical vocabulary.
• Discuss the process of composition, evaluate effectiveness of choices, and evaluate ability to plan and revise.

Lesson 9: Topic Test