Posts Tagged ‘Australian literature’
7
Mar
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, student help, study skills, works/authors. Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, Australian literature, Australian poetry, coaching, English resources, exam skills, poetry, teaching resources. 1 Comment
… but I am prepared to laud Maya Puiu and Lisa Edwards for their Pascal Press Study Guide for “Belonging” and Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle. It really is a thorough and extremely intelligent guide.
It is in fact so good it could be dangerous for some students, if they were to draw on it too [...]
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14
Feb
Posted by Neil in environment. Tagged: Australian culture, Australian history, Australian literature. Leave a Comment
There is a good article in today’s Australian by Simon Caterson: Living with the embers.
IT would be hard to overestimate the strength of the hold that bushfire has over our physical environment and over the Australian imagination. When in 1988 a series of ceremonial bonfires was lit during the Australian bicentenary celebrations, historian Geoffrey Blainey [...]
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3
Sep
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, HSC, for teachers, literature genres, student help, works/authors. Tagged: Australian culture, Australian literature, Australian poetry, poetry. Leave a Comment
Yet another email, this one from the South Coast Writers’ Centre.
Poetry Viva
SCWC PROGRAM11 October 2008
Join our most exciting contemporary poets for an afternoon of challenge and contemplation. Featuring Dorothy Porter, John Tranter, joanne burns, Judith Beveridge, Peter Skrzynecki, Barbara Nicholson, Chris Mansell, Elizabeth Hodgson, Merlinda Bobis and more reading from their work. Call in to [...]
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9
Mar
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, HSC, student help, works/authors. Tagged: Australian literature, journeys, poetry, site news. Leave a Comment
Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki’s poems has been checked and updated today. There are some new resources there, but sadly one that seems to have gone, and one that may have.
There are also some new HSC videos in the VodPod.
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7
Nov
Posted by Neil in English studies, HSC, questions asked, student help. Tagged: Australian culture, Australian literature, journeys. Comments Off
That post on Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki’s poems has now had 2,743 individual visits. I thought I would share how I approach teaching this unit, keeping in mind it is not the only approach that would work.
First, I would have a study of the set poems for their own sake, almost (but not quite) ignoring [...]
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14
Aug
Posted by Neil in Australian, works/authors, writing. Tagged: Australian history, Australian literature, fiction. Comments Off
Substantial additions have been made to this post, thanks to Adrian Phoon. Go to the original post for his comment. See also Just something to think about…, a follow-up post.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (2005). Grenville has also written one of the best books on writing that I know. (Australian historical fiction)
As I [...]
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2
Aug
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, HSC, questions asked, reading, student help, works/authors, writing. Tagged: Australian literature, essays. Comments Off
I have just worked an essay one of my coachees submitted a week or two ago. It is on Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, a novel many praise. It has even been turned into a noted stage production. “Simply awesome. Cloudstreet is a winner from beginning to end…something native, new, vast and unforgettable.” The Sydney Morning [...]
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4
May
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, HSC, student help, works/authors. Tagged: Australian literature, Australian poetry, journeys, Skrzynecki. 36 Comments
Revised March 2008
Peter Skrzynecki (above) must be one of the most popular choices for the Journeys Area of Study in the NSW HSC English courses. I have yet another coachee studying his work right now. There is so much good stuff available online!
The obvious starting point is NSW HSC Online for an overview of this [...]
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17
Jan
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, literature genres, works/authors. Tagged: Australian literature, children's literature, English resources. Comments Off
Visit the site linked to that header*. Judith Ridge, the owner of that site, says:
Hello! Thank you for visiting the Misrule website and for taking the time to find out more about me. I’ve been involved with children’s literature in many capacities; as reader, teacher, arts program co-ordinator, editor, critic, acolyte and advocate!..
I have published [...]
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19
Dec
Posted by Neil in Australian, English studies, HSC, literature genres, student help, works/authors. Tagged: Australian literature, English literature, English poetry, fiction, Romantics. Comments Off
In 2005 I had two students who were reading David Malouf — Answers.com or Wikipedia are both good places to start looking. One student was studying An Imaginary Life in the context of an “In the Wild” module also featuring Wordsworth. (He got Band 6 in the end.) Nature in Answers.com is worth a visit. [...]
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