Macmillan Essential English has been written specifically for the new 2019 Queensland Essential English syllabus. It focuses on preparing students for assessment success, and building lifelong literacy and communication skills.
Structured using sequences of double-page spreads, the textbook isdesigned around accessible, high-engagement, multimodal texts to deliversyllabus outcomes and prepare students for assessment. Each lesson-sizedspread focuses on a specific concept, skill or outcome, scaffolded using Marzano’s taxonomy of cognitive processes. Students can see at a glancewhat they’re working towards, understand the application of their learning and be empowered as functional and purposeful language users across a range of modes and media.
Key features:
- A bold design that presents engaging, self-contained content in double-page spreads
- A clear, scaffolded pathway through each unit that explicitly develops the skills needed to complete assessment tasks
- Skills & Strategy spreads provide opportunities for students to focus on and build key skills and strategies
- Text is underpinned by explicit teaching and modelling of key concepts followed by practise
- Activities are scaffolded using Marzano’s taxonomy cognitive processes
Unit 1: Language that works
1. Unit 1: Opener
2. CHAPTER 1
3. Assessment Task 1
4. Assessment Task 2
5. Workplaces of the future
6. Skills & Strategies: Patterns & conventions of genres
7. Workplaces of the past
8. Skills & Strategies: Understanding unusual vocabulary
9. A New World Order
10. Teamwork and collaboration
11. Skills & Strategies: Communicating effectively
12. Entrepreneurialism
13. Skills & Strategies: Analysing information
14. Job Clusters
15. The informers
16. Skills & Strategies: reflecting on prior connections with texts
17. The Technologists
18. Skills & Strategies: developing your ideas
19. The coordinators
20. Skills & Strategies: Establishing rapport
21. The designer
22. Skills & Strategies: Elements of design
23. The generators
24. Skills & Strategies: Mind your language
25. The artisans
26. Skills & Strategies: Sign of the times
27. The carers
28. Skills & Strategies: Persuasive paragraphs
29. A balancing act
30. Unit 1: Closer My Work Future
Unit 2: Texts and human experiences
1. Unit 2 Opener
2. CHAPTER 2
3. Assessment Task 3: Vlog
4. Anita Heiss “Growing up Aboriginal in Australia”
5. Skills & Strategies: Breaking the rules
6. Anh Do “The Happiest Refugee”
7. Skills & Strategies: Figurative language
8. Alice Pung: “The Unpolished Gem”
9. Skills & Strategies
10. Billy Slater
11. Skills & Strategies
12. Omar Muse
13. Skills & Strategies: Descriptive language
14. CHAPTER 3
15. Assessment Task 4: Obituary
16. True Crime
17. Skills & Strategies: Brainstorming
18. Jack the Ripper
19. Skills & Strategies: Interpreting images
20. Making a murderer 1
21. Skills & Strategies: Discovering documentaries
22. Making a murderer 2
23. Skills & Strategies: Detecting bias
24. A.K.A Chopper Read 1
25. Chopper Read 2
26. Skills & Strategies: Mind your language
27. Inside the mind
28. Skills & Strategies: Writing anecdotes
29. Tupac Shakur – unpacking the obituary