Representing the Real Different ways of representing actual events, how narrative is used in these representations and how medium shapes the ways we respond to them. Workshop notes News s...
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Year 7: Invisible Not! Advertising and Identity This Year 7 Unit: Invisible, Not! demonstrates how financial literacy may be embedded in English programmes using the Consumer and Financial Literacy Professional Development Package. It is accompani...
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Research unit for Year 9: Watchdog This Year 9 Research unit: Watchdog is an example of how financial literacy may be embedded in English programmes using the Consumer and Financial Literacy Professional Development Package . It is al...
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September 11 Website Introductory overview of a unit on the Smithsonian September 11 website .
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Fay and Jane: good farmers’ wives? Connections between Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice give students a new appreciation for the original text and a greater understanding of the role of literature.
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On First Reading Fay Weldon's letters to Alice This article considers some of the implications of comparing Pride and Prejudice with Weldon's Letters to Alice on Reading Jane Austen
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Three New Speeches for Advanced Module B An analysis of three great contemporary speeches - Dr Faith Bandler, Sir William Deane, Anwar Sadat
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We could be heroes: an approach to the Fundamentals of English course This article outlines the metacognitive processes of a teacher planning and implementing a flexible course for students.
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Raymond Gaita on Romulus My Father This interview explores belonging in terms of Gaita's memoir and more general cultural aspects.
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Please Explain: Using Dr Karl’s non-fiction texts in the classroom to engage, enrich and extend Stage 4 Unit and integrated assessment tas k using non-fiction texts, comprised of short articles with graphics. For critical literacy, boys education, language
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Module B - Critical Study of Texts: Speeches. A Framework for Responses and Introductory Activities A consideration and analysis of the issues surrounding students' responses to Module B , as well as some critical readings and student activities. See end of article at end of this.
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In Search of Ted's Truth An exploration of the marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath , including its influence on the poetry of both authors. Focuses on Ariel and Birthday Letters in keeping with the requirements for ...
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A community of moral beings This essay looks how responsibility and ethics in Raymond Gaita's 'Romulus My Father' relate to the concept of belonging.
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Some reflections on teaching Life Writing This article reviews some of the issues in teaching life writing, including conventions of the genre, linearity and claims of truth.
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The Bush Mechanics Analysis and teaching ideas for the TV series, The Bush Mechanics.
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