mETAphor view

This edition of mETAphor features lectures on the Area of Study sponsored by Matrix Education at the State Library. It also looks at writing in the broader community through the the Sydney Writers' Festival and Herald Young Writer awards.

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• A Mirror of the Times: Hamlet as a text of transition
• The Sydney Morning Herald 2010 Young Writer of the Year
• Poems to Share: Strategies for using the work of contemporary Australian poets in the secondary English classroom
• Student Choice and Synthesis in Year 11 Standard: Cultural relevance and resistance through hip hop
• Write Now!
• Technologies of the Self: 2011 HSC English belonging lectures.
  • Governing the Self: Analysing Representations of Belonging in Literature
  • Belonging in Arden: Back to nature or nature as you like it?
  • The Devil’s Bidding: Law, corruption and desire in The Crucible
  • A Community of Moral Beings: Responsibility and ethics in Raimond Gaita’s Romulus, My Father
• Creating Mirror by Jeannie Baker
• Cultural difference and Mirror:
• Some Reflections on Teaching Life Writing
• Teaching Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
• englishteachers@thesydneywritersfestival2010