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Dear English Syllabus, you’re so dumped

08 Oct 05:50am

Filed under: Education, English Syllabus, Hsc

Dear HSC English Syllabus, so I guess we are coming towards the end of what has been a long and volatile 6-year relationship.

Syllabus, I'm moving on to something more educational, Schoolies!

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.

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