I am working with student teachers in 3rd year of their training around English (L1) pedagogy and curriculum design in which this short program and their first practicum in schools will be their first encounter with teaching English rather than being a learner. We will use the Understanding By Design templates, International Bac Middle Years templates and the Australian Curriculum for English. I want them to interrogate what is "worth teaching" and why, rather than just what they will cover in a four week conventional unit plan for a middle years class. Science in Unis and schools here is becoming increasingly based around "Big Questions" inquiry rather than defined discipline content, but English lags behind here in challenging the established structures. Any suggestions for questions, quotations or readings/multimedia that would stimulate discussion about curriculum design for English in a more innovative way to help them approach this more holistically and critically?