Year 9 English

This year we have travelled to California during the Great Depression, to Verona to see a great love turn deadly, saw the impact of discrimination and violence in 1960s Tulsa, and questioned what possible utopian world we could experience in the future. OH WHAT A YEAR IT HAS BEEN!

Year 9 English: What we loved, what we learnt, what we are excited about for next year

• Reading ‘The Outsiders’ and watching the movie
• The character parade and dressing up as Greasers

• Writing a newspaper article for ‘The Outsiders’
• Friday’s therapy classes
• I’m not excited about next year but I am excited to finish school
• Lessons I learnt from ‘The Outsiders’ is the importance to individuality, overcoming adversity, staying gold!
• Getting to study ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ next year

Wishing all my students the best of luck for next year whether you are here at Sirius College IDC, one of our other campuses or a different school entirely. I have loved teaching you all for the past 2 years. It was a blast! REMEMBER STAY GOLD!!!!!!!

Year 10 English

As we start our new journey into VCE, let us not forgot the lessons ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘Animal Farm’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Prestige’ have taught us.

With great power, comes great responsibility! So don’t stuff it up by becoming greedy or arrogant or paranoid or downright discriminatory!

Use your power for good, not evil. And especially don’t go and try and kill your enemy just because some witches told you to or because you can’t let go of a grudge. I mean really! It will just end up destroying all the relationships you have with others, people will start to hate you and then more likely someone will kill you… unless you are Napoleon from ‘Animal Farm’... then everything will work out in your favour (but we don't want to become like Napoleon do we?).

Well that’s what I think this year’s English has taught me.

Illustrations by Adem Custovic

I want to thank all my students for all their hard work throughout 2016. It has been a challenging year but we have learnt a lot and had some fun along the way. I have seen you all grow up and mature into bright, caring, thoughtful students over the past 2 years and I know that you will do great in VCE. Good Luck! And don’t forget to visit us soon!