Add meaning and purpose to reading. To meet examination and other curriculum requirements, senior students need to make connections beyond the text – to themselves, other texts and the wider world. This series aims to guide them to make those connections in a purposeful and meaningful way.
Ages: 12-16 years
Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.