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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Collaboration This presentation outlines how students can collaborate in a critique of a narrative.
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Henry Lawson Through a podcast, students pitch one of Lawson's stories to be produced as a film.
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Repositioning Comics This article argues for a reconsideration of the importance of comics in the curriculum in terms of visual/verbal relationships, sequential narratives and literary artefacts.
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Getting to the point: thinking about what it means to understand theme By considering ideas from adjacent fields such as psychology this article shows how to make the study of the literary element of theme more meaningful for students. Related: Fresh takes on teaching t...
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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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The Magic Pudding's 90th birthday An affectionate tribute to this children's classic.
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Using ICT to Teach Creative Writing: The theory and some practical teaching strategies A thoughtful article providing practical ideas for integrating ICT into the English curriculum.
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Sharing My Place: Shared histories in Australian texts. Stage 4 unit of work This Stage 4 unit, with assessments and resource list , connects to student social worlds through narratives of place, linking textual features to creation of identity. Indigenous and cross curriculu...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: In the wild workshop study guide Series of student questions for Huxley's 'Brave New World' from 'In the wild workshop study guide', arranged by chapter.
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Writing for Extension 2: Free Falling into Fiction Support for writing the creative major work , exercises, establishing character and writing description plus examples, what’s at stake, word choice, not being didactic, back-story.
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In the zone; Working with Crime Fiction Crime Fiction genre as dynamic but recognisable conventions and characters. Inventive versus derivative. Genealogy of the genre and text examples.
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Travels in self-consciousness: an exploration of metafiction in Calvino’s 'If on a winter's night a traveller' Discussion of the novel in which the author who refuses to die battles against Barthe’s ‘death of the author’. Theorising in narrative disguise. Chapter summary of interesting points that are made th...
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