The Secret River

Use in curricula

The Secret River is a text used for the Victorian Certificate of Education Year 12 English course.[16] It is also used for the Western Australian TEE course through Secondary school. The University of Sydney distributed 9,500 copies of The Secret River to enrolling first-year students in January 2011 as part of the inaugural 'First-Year Book Club', which aims to bring students together to discuss and debate big ideas around a common theme.[17] As a "set text" it is included in the IGCSE (Grade 9 & 10) English Literature course for 2017–19. As a text used for Close Text analysis, The Secret River is included in the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) English Level 3 course.


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