Spirited Away is one of the films Year 7 and 8 students may watch. Photo: [STUDIO GHIBLI Spirited Away]
The draft Year 7-13 English curriculum has been released along with a list of suggested texts covering poetry, novels, short stories, film and plays.
How many of the films have you seen or stories have you read?
Here is what is on the list.
Year 7 and 8
Extended text
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by Tania Roxborogh
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Poetry
Selected poems by Hone Tuwhare, including Rain
Annual by Kate de Goldi and Susan Paris
The Red Wheelbarrow and other poems by William Carlos Williams
Drama
School Journal Level 4
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (stage adaptation by National Theatre)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (adapted for stage)
Film
Wonder directed by Stephen Chbosky
Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Bridge to Terabithia directed by Gábor Csupó
Other
School Journal Level 4
Malala Yousafzai's United Nations Speech (2013)
I am Eleven directed by Genevieve Bailey
Bridge to Terabithia. Photo: Photo12 via AFP
Year 9 and 10
Extended text
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
The Pōrangi Boy by Shilo Kino
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Poetry
Poetry of WWI poets
Still I Rise and other poems by Maya Angelou
The Shape of Words and other poems by Glenn Colquhoun
Whale Rider. Photo: South Pacific Pictures
Drama
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Maui and Sina by Helen Tauau Filisi
Rēwena by Whiti Hereaka
Film
Fantastic Mr Fox by Wes Anderson
Two Cars, One Night by Taika Waititi
Whale Rider by Niki Caro
Other
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King
The Dream Sleepers and other stories by Patricia Grace
Pounamu, Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
Year 11
Extended text
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
T.H.U.G. by Angie Thomas
Bugs by Whiti Hereaka
Poetry
Ozymandias and other poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Small holes in the silence: collected poems by Hone Tuwhare
Unity and collected poems by Selina Tusitala Marsh
Fantastic Mr Fox. Photo: Fox Searchlight
Drama
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Krishnan's Dairy by Jacob Rajan
Films
The Hate U Give by George Tillman Jr.
Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann
Little Women by Greta Gerwig
Other
All who live on islands by Rose Lu
Pūrākau by Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka
How False News Can Spread by Noah Tavlin
Year 12
Extended text
1984 by George Orwell
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt
Poetry
Shakespearean Sonnets
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven and others
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
The Truman Show. Photo: AFP / Paramount Pictures / Scott Rudin
Drama
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Dawn Raids by Oscar Kightley
Films
Testament of Youth directed by James Kent
Waru Collection by Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Renae Maihi, Chelsea Cohen, Paula Whetu Jones, Awanui SimichPene
The Truman Show by Peter Weir
Other
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
World War 2 Speeches of Churchill
Year 13
Extended text
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Auē by Becky Manawatu
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A still from the film Cousins. Photo: supplied
Poetry
The Waste Land by T.S Eliot
Home and other poems by Warsan Shire
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Drama
Othello by William Shakespeare
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Shuriken by Vincent O'Sullivan
Films
Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky
Cousins by Briar Grace-Smith and Ainsley Gardiner
Other
Dubliners by James Joyce
Planet Earth by BBC and David Attenborough
The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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