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Mr. Heneghan • Secondary English & Lit
Years 7–12

Curriculum Map

The seven courses I teach, unit by unit. Each course links into the resource library, where the matching texts, materials and assessments now live organised by author, era, genre and skill.

Year 7

Year 7 English

Foundational reading, writing and visual literacy: fantasy worlds, animated film, the class novel, persuasion, advertising and comics.

  • Fantasy Composition — fairy tale, myth & worldbuilding
  • Animated Film — Coraline & animated storytelling
  • Novel Study — the class novel
  • Persuasion Speech — persuasive oratory
  • Advertisement — advertising & media persuasion
  • Sustainability Infographic — visual communication
  • Comics+ — comics & graphic narrative
  • Comic Creator — making comics
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Year 9 · Extension

Year 9 HEAP

High Enrichment Academic Program: persuasion, documentary, graphic novel, Jurassic Park, biography, Australian drama film and gothic poetry.

  • Persuasion — argument, rhetoric & campaign
  • Documentaries — truth, framing & rhetoric on screen
  • Graphic Novel — visual grammar & narrative depth
  • Novel: Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton, science & hubris
  • Biographies — life writing & perspective
  • Australian Drama Film — identity, place & voice
  • Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe — gothic poetry & sound
  • Singalong — music, lyric & performance
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Year 9 · Oratory

Year 9 Power of Speech

A complete oratory curriculum: fundamentals, expository, persuasion, impromptu, special occasion, oral interpretation and debate.

  • Fundamentals — voice, stance & presence
  • Expository — informing with clarity
  • Persuasion — the architecture of argument
  • Impromptu — thinking on your feet
  • Special Occasion — ceremony & craft
  • Oral Interpretation — performing literature
  • Debate — argumentation & cross-examination
  • Game Show — performance & spontaneity
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Year 10

Year 10 English

Film study, Never Let Me Go, persuasion, Renaissance tragedy (Macbeth) and R.U.R. — analysis and composition across text types.

  • Film Study — genre, auteurship & visual language
  • Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Persuasion — argument & rhetoric
  • Procedural Medical & Crime — genre conventions
  • Renaissance: Macbeth — Shakespearean tragedy
  • Revision — exam preparation
  • R.U.R. — Karel Čapek
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Year 11 · ATAR

Year 11 ATAR English

SCSA ATAR English: comprehension, responding and composing across film, graphic novel, short fiction and Station Eleven.

  • Exam Resources — comprehension · responding · composing
  • Film — auteurship & visual analysis
  • Graphic Novel: Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
  • Mascots — creative composing
  • Short Stories — O'Connor, Irving & genre craft
  • Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
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Year 11 · ATAR

Year 11 ATAR Literature

Australian short fiction, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Oryx and Crake, the Romantics, thriller fiction and oral interpretation.

  • Short Stories — Australian — landscape, voice & identity
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsay
  • Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood
  • Romantic Poetry — Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge
  • Thriller Short Fiction — suspense & the uncanny
  • Oral Interpretation — performing drama
  • Revision — Semester 1 & 2 exam preparation
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Year 12 · ATAR

Year 12 ATAR Literature

Baynton, Doctor Faustus, Samuel Wagan Watson, The Great Gatsby, Beowulf and The Tempest — the full senior Literature arc.

  • Course Documents — syllabus & course outline
  • Revision — Semester 1 exam preparation
  • Barbara Baynton — Australian short fiction
  • Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe
  • Samuel Wagan Watson — contemporary Australian poetry
  • Close Reading — micro-analysis
  • The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Beowulf — epic poetry
  • The Tempest — William Shakespeare
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