New Tech claims to embed their students with Curricular Literacy. This is absolutely true, but mostly towards the curriculum that new tech adheres to. So it is true that new tech teaches us to be literate towards the new tech curriculum. Literate does not express it fully- by the time we are seniors, we are literally drowning in understanding of the curriculum, so much that we can approach every project with ease. It gives us a new understanding of everything that we do, so that we can do everything more easily, more fluently, and more clearly.

How we reach this curricular nirvana is simple: repetition. That’s right: we come in at grade nine, and they give us a project to complete as a group. This concept is not only foreign, but upsetting, and unsettling at first. We work through it, and work through the scenario about 25 more times before we turn into seniors.

The example I want to draw upon is the articles we had to write for a fictional newspaper when we did a project based on George Orwell’s 1984. I knew exactly what the teachers wanted to see, and exactly what I had to do. I wrote four articles as if they were in a newspaper set in the novel 1984. That can be found here.