Teaching Literary Elements Reading processes, transfer of knowledge, character, setting and theme are outlined in this presentation used in a day long workshop with Associate Professor Jeffrey Willhelm.
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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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Striking a Balance: Romanticism and Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights as a Romantic text is explored, both in its evolution and through a close reading of a few passages offering a model of how to analyse texts with detailed evidence. Looks at Bronte’...
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After the bomb and Waiting for Godot The period after the bomb produced a wealth of literature, including Waiting for Godot , that responded to and reflected the despair of the period. The article places the play in this context relatin...
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Utopias and Dystopias Dr Peter Marks takes us through some of the key issues and the history of writing about Utopia, from Plato’s The Republic to More’s Utopia , Huxley’s Brave New World , Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale an...
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Teaching reading through a sense of place and writing Felicity Castagna from Bankstown Youth Development Services has brought together a community of many ethnic groups, reading and writing together and seeing their work published through Westside Publi...
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