Rachael Christopherson
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Number of years teaching:
25. 12 years at BGGS
Where else have you taught?
St Edmund's College, Ipswich (all boys)
Mt Alvernia College, Kedron (all girls)
Downlands College, Toowoomba (co-ed boarding with Ag Studies programme)
What is your favourite book? Poem? Australian author?
The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak
Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harer
More Than This, Patrick Ness
The Protected, Claire Zorn
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
I'll Be There, Holly Goldberg Sloan
Testimony, Halina Wagawska
Griffin and Sabine series, Nick Bantock
The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Strange Objects, Gary Crew
Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
Favourite author: William Shakespeare
Poem: Postman's Privilege, Sam Wagen Watson
What you love about English teaching?
Creativity. Revelations of the human soul. The beauty of words. The message to mankind in the texts of the writers, poets and film-makers.