The following program of work illustrates the application of The Study of Character in English within two Year 12 English programs at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Western Australia. The English department has access to three school computer labs and a library hub area and timetable students into these areas when required. Year 12 students have worked in the labs on a short story unit and created their own program of questions for the feature film texts Hotel Sorrento and The Castle . The 14 categories of questions are selected from a menu page and through simple button selection, navigate the user through each structural component of the package. This process enables teachers and students with little computer experience to quickly and efficiently operate the program and create their own sets of questions.
Students work on the computer in pairs, creating their own program of questions.
The questions then form a Writer's Notebook assessment task, which is undertaken independently at home. Within the user section of the program, students view pre-existing questions and using these questions as a model, set about creating their own program of questions. Students create a set of 15 questions, with a maximum of three questions from any one category. They are encouraged to view the curriculum commentary attached to each question before embarking on their student program. Students are required to include a specific focus on gender within the program and spend time considering the suitability of questions provided within this section of the package.