This term our English students have been looking at humour and what makes us laugh.  Students were tasked with writing a narrative that contained an element of humour.  Our students were challenged to follow the narrative format AND include humour, which is not an easy task, but they rose to the challenge and we have received some wonderful stories. We will share some of these stories in future issues of the newsletter. 

Next term, students continue their investigation of what makes us laugh and how humour changes over the years by analysing different TV shows from the past and creating a podcast that argues for the remaking of an old TV show for a modern audience.  This week, students began looking at the 1964 TV series Bewitched to examine and analyse how the series has been re-envisioned for different audiences with the 2005 movie Bewitched and the 2021 series WandaVision.  The changes in themes, characters, humour, TV tropes and our attitudes, values and beliefs about the world we live in are all interesting and thought-provoking topics we will be exploring.

Ms Goddaer and the Year 9 English team