World of Ideas

The World of Ideas combines the disciplines of English and the History to create a theme focused curriculum. The approach facilitates inquiry based learning and challenges students to work cooperatively with their peers and to construct their own meanings from negotiated research, performance and folio projects. As a result students become independent learners who develop high level thinking from real world situations and learn to grapple with real issues. Through World of Ideas students will develop deeper understandings of themselves; becoming empowered, independent and enquiring learners, using democratic processes to influence and respond to the rich, resource‐based environment in which they will be working.

Our World

Curriculum Focus and Learning Outcomes

 

The novel Purple Threads is a springboard for discussion and an exploration of indigenous issues in contemporary Australia. Students are guided to make links between historical events and present-day issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. The text is also explored in terms of its key themes, ideas and technical elements.

 

Civilised Worlds

Curriculum Focus and Learning Outcomes

 

Students discuss and work towards an understanding of what it means to live in a socially responsible and humane world. The Holocaust provides a historical focus for an in‐depth study of how quickly a society can descend into a savage and uncivilized world. This theme is further explored through a study of holocaust fiction.

Out In The World

Curriculum Focus and Learning Outcomes

 

The City Experience, an eight day off campus exploration of Melbourne, provides students with the opportunity to undertake field work exploring modern Melbourne, looking at areas such as urban art, laneway cultures, homelessness and the inner urban environment as a home. Students will present their learning at an exhibition 

Another World

Curriculum Focus and Learning Outcomes

 

Humour is often used to highlight the absurd nature of human life, and this is a focus of the Comedy Unit. While we can laugh at the ridiculous, the stupidity and banality of life, humour can also bring about awareness, develop empathy and create a greater understanding of our own and others’ lives by diffusing tensions and therefore breaking down barriers. Students will explore the way humour expresses and/or reveals their identity and through working with professional comedians will develop and perform their own stand-up routine.

 

Students discuss and work towards an understanding of what it means to live in a socially responsible and humane world. The Holocaust provides a lens for an in‐depth study of how quickly a society can descend into a savage and uncivilized world. This theme is further explored through a study of Holocaust fiction.

 

Work Requirements:

  • Participation in class activities
  • Leading and participating in class discussions
  • Reading assignments
  • English and Humanities skill development tasks

Assessment Tasks

  • One-minute film
  • Comedy Folio, performance and script
  • Text studies
  • Essays - Literary and Historical
  • A folio of personal writing