February
28
Yr. 11- EAL
2018 Curriculum Text Links |
Rabbits, by John Marsden & Shaun Tan |
| Click HERE for links. |
Things fall apart, by Achebe |
| Click HERE for links. |
Foreign soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke |
| Click HERE for links. |
Gattaca – (Movie) |
| Click HERE for links. |
2017 Text Curriculum Links |
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Tales of the Unexpected. Roald Dahl. |
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| Book Rags study guide. | |
| eNotes study guide – Lamb to the slaughter. | |
No sugar |
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| Click HERE to visit Ms Paquier’s No Sugar website. | |
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| The Academy – history of the play. | |
| Visit Wikipedia for a character list and a bit of background | |
| Visit Wikipedia for a Timeline of Aboriginal history in Western Australia. | |
| National Museum – Collaborating for Indigenous Rights site. | |
| Find out what life was like for Aborigines in the 1930’s. A Uni. of Sydney page. | |
| 1930’s Moments and experiences from the Great Depression. Miss Kelly’s House of History | |
| The Stolen Generation. Looks at the whole of Australia. | |
| Sydney Living Museums. Skint! Making do in the Great Depression | |
| Noongar Culture page. | |
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| INSIGHT STUDY GUIDE – our eBook shelf. Available for 3 day loan. Click HERE. Use your computer login to access. | |
| Preview an eNote essay here. | |
| Visit the Student Box and follow the forum. | |
| Helpme.com Stereotypes in No sugar. | |
| Marked by teachers. You will need to pay for the full essay. | |
| Visit this site for a sample A/B essay and comments. | |
| Gradesaver study guide. | |
Sapphires. Movie |
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| Atom study guide pdf. Click HERE. | |
| ACMI study guide. Click HERE. | |
| An excellent study guide from St Joseph’s College HERE. | |
| Marian College Sunshine study guide. Click HERE. | |
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2016 Text Curriculum LinksGrowing Up Asian In Australia. Alice Pung |
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| eBook, available for 3 day loan from our Wheelers e-book shelf. Access using your computer login. | |
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| History of migration to Australia (NSW) | |
| National Museum of Australia | |
| Immigration Museum Victoria | |
| ACMI website | |
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| Review in The Age | |
| Author interview | |
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| VCE study guides | |
| Mind Metaphors – A great site with links to download study notes, and videos on Australia & rascism & the American-Asian perspective. | |
| A PDF exploring issues of identity & belonging – study notes | |
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| Watch a video of Alice Pung on her love of writing. |
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Alice Pung on growing up as an Asian in Australia. |
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Tales of the Unexpected. Roald Dahl. |
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| Book Rags study guide. | |
| eNotes study guide – Lamb to the slaughter. | |
A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. |
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| A FREE Gutenberg collection edition of the novel to download from our eBook shelf. | |
| Hear the novel read aloud on the BBC website. | |
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| Read a Wikipedia article about the novel here. | |
| Read the Wikipedia page about Charles Dickens here. | |
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| Study guide from GradeSaver. | |
| A Novel Guide study guide. | |
| A study guide designed for the UK & Wales GCSE’s. | |
| A study guide for a theatre production but includes lots of background information about the novel. | |
| Davis Perdu’s study guide. A brief but informative page. | |
| A SparkNotes study guide. | |
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View the full 1984 movie here. |
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View the 1935 movie, Scrooge, based on A Christmas Carol here. |
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Resources for Texts Studied in 2014 |
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True blue (On being Australian) Goldsworthy.
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| Individual stories of what being Australian means to people. | |
| An opinion piece from the Sydney Morning Herald. | |
| Discussion Forum on being Australian. | |
| Transcript of 7.30 Report piece from 2001. | |
| If being Australian is the sum of our history this Federation Site has it all. | |
Tales from Outer Suburbia. Tan |
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| Wikipedia article. | |
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| See Shaun Tan in conversation here. | |
| See a book trailer on this YouTube clip. | |
| Comments about the book by the author / artist. | |
| A review in The Guardian. | |
| A review on the ABC Canberra | |
Sky burial. Xinran. |
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| Wikipedia page on sky burials. Not for the squeamish. | |
| Charles Foran. An extensive review and background to the book & author. | |
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| An interview with the author in The Independent. | |
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| A very extensive review on Today I Read. | |
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| Watch this video and find out about a Buddhist sky burial. | |