Misinformation and disinformation: how the term fake news is meaningless

January 10, 2020
The ability for our students to determine who and what to trust is critical literacy in a nutshell. Our focus on how to analyse texts has not changed. What has changed is the media landscape in our ‘post truth’ or ‘post fact’ world. As Toby Manhire, editor of the New...

A cocktail party of literary theories

October 21, 2019
If you met Aristotle at a party he might inquire if you live the golden mean. This moralist theory is useful to consider characterisation, themes and reader response. Reader-response theorists believe texts need to have a reader before it can mean anything. They will...

I think therefore I can analyse?

August 28, 2019
The top three most asked questions of your English teachers: How many quotations should I use per paragraph? What’s the best structure for a comparative essay? What are the markers looking for in a conclusion? Well, the bad news is there are no definitive answers (we...

Being human: how the drama genre means everything

August 2, 2019
“Meanwhile I want to go on talking to you as freely and intimately about what we live for and die for as if I knew you better than anyone else whom you know.” English teachers want to open your eyes to what it means to be human and so do playwrights....