My impertinence to reply:

We can experiment J.M.COETZEE and Joseph Conrad in ELL class, that would be nice. By the way, I learnt form a Canadian teacher (he used to teach IB in Eton House) in our school that, integrating mix learning sources (short articles, essays, listening) would help a lot.

Thanks! Great feedback 😀

As it happens, now I’m teaching all three grades for my second year and so have the opportunity to build on the study of rhetoric and figurative language much more than with your cohort, and for sure we have many more seminars 😆

We still don’t focus on grammar beyond those structures used specifically for rhetorical impact.

In most cases the literature class devoid PRACTICAL AND SUBLIME content, I’d recommend adding small vocabulary quiz, while delving a deeper  into the figurative language and rhetoric methods.

By the way, do not neglect grammar practice! the paucity of complex sentence would affect the audiences’ judgement on the writing. I’m not a native speaker, but everybody here knew that GRAMMAR is AN INTERGRAL PART of your COMPOSITION,  even C1 speakers should work on that. I think making EXCESSIVE posters frequently is a waste of time, why not having more seminars and DEBATES? What about adding short articles into the curriculum? that is the way to improve students’ comprehension techniques！

In addition to that, doing SHAKESPEARE all the time is boring, try Albert Camus or American authors, you could also try Conrad, his colonial age stuff is marvelous!

So you are saying I should keep literature class pragmatic and practical, right?

That’s a good question indeed.
According to Albert Camus, most existentialist are getting LUNATIC and unrealistic, I don’t recommend Dr. Terrett to bring you guy into the Oracle of superman, Nietzsche, transcending old morality etc, I don’t want accidents to happen.
(As existentialism is too fascinating, I’m psychologically afflicted when I’m grade 9, don’t try these things, be realistic.)

This’ll be a nice read for students keen to learn some new vocab 😆