English Department News

Over the past week, both the DP (Year 1 Language and Literature ) and HSC (English Advanced and English Standard) students were treated to some insightful and exciting experiences.

The DP students were invited to the Governor’s Ballroom for a Gallery Walk to introduce the art of James Mylne, a UK ballpoint pen political artist (see below). His body of work is called A Decade of Shade. It was the first lesson of inquiry hosted by their class teachers Caroline Usasz and Hannah Thomas. The Body of Work examines the key IBDP English areas of exploration of culture, identity and community beliefs, and politics, power and justice.

The students will analyse how the texts’ construction communicate meaning and will make links with their literary texts; the play Othello by William Shakespeare and the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This Body of Work could then contribute to their Internal Assessment, a 10 minute spoken examination which investigates how a literary and non-literary text presents a specific Global Issue.

Stephen Henriques
Head of English