http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/tori-read/ Tori Read is a 17 year old HSC student who lives in the Northern Beaches attends Wenona Girls’ School in North Sydney. Her interests include turning 18, skiing, economics, music, schoolies, summer and the potentially five best months of her life coming up in a little less than four weeks. Her preoccupations at the moment however, include studying for her HSC exams beginning in two weeks. Tori plans to attend college at Melbourne University next year studying Media/Communications and Law. She hopes to one day be as wise as Ross Gittins and write for The Economist. However, if this does not come to pass she wouldn’t mind travelling the world as a ski instructor. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dear-english-syllabus-youre-so-dumped/ Dear HSC English Syllabus, so I guess we are coming towards the end of what has been a long and volatile 6-year relationship. We have seen each other grow from the simple seeds of Year 7; talking about ‘themes’ like ‘love’ and ‘relationships’ and ‘evil’; to the Year 10 hypocrisies of ‘prejudice’ and the evils of ‘appropriation’, and the importance of punctuation (please disregard poor grammar - it comes with time and patience, none of which I have at this moment). Now in Year 12, there is an understanding that an ultimate truth and knowledge, in itself, probably doesn’t exist - but we all belong so, hey, it’s cool. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tori Read) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dear-english-syllabus-youre-so-dumped/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dear-english-syllabus-youre-so-dumped/#item1427 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:50:32 +0000 Tori Read | Author bios | The Punch