February
6
Yr. 10 – Eng.
Resources for Year 10 Texts – 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
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| Sparknotes study guide | |
| CliffNotes study guide | |
| Shmoop study guide | |
| BBC study guide | |
| Gradesaver study guide | |
| Melbourne HS study guide | |
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| Read 46,000+ reviews at Goodreads | |
| Review in The New Yorker | |
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| Read an interview with the author, Harper Lee, in The Guardian. | |
| The Bluegrass Special. Interview with Harper Lee | |
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| An essay written by a Year 10 student | |
| What is Harper Lee’s message on racial prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird? This essay is written by a teacher. | |
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Happiest refugee,: a memoir, by Anh Do
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| Find out all the facts on refugees & asylum seekers at the Red Cross site HERE. | |
| Facts, Figures & Myth busters at the Refugee Council of Australia HERE. | |
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| SuperSummary study guide HERE. | |
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| Read a BookThingo review HERE. | |
| Read a Book’d Out review HERE. | |
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| A review with Anh on ABC Sydney. Click HERE. | |
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| Study guide from Stella Prize HERE. | |
| Reading notes & discussion questions from Hachette Press HERE. | |
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| Read this review in the Sydney Morning Herald. Click HERE. | |
| Writer’s Edit. Read a review HERE. | |
| Sydney Review of Books review. Click HERE. | |
| Kill Your Darlings review HERE. | |
| Adventures of a Bookonaut review HERE. | |
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| See an interview with Maxine Beneba Clarke here. |
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| New York Times reviews. HERE and HERE. | |
| Ross Ebert review. HERE. | |
| The Guardian review. HERE. | |
| The New Yorker review. HERE. | |
| Empire magazine review. HERE. | |
| The Atlantic review. HERE. | |
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| The New Republic. Racism in ‘Beast of the Southern Wild.” HERE. | |
| TV Tropes. HERE. | |
| Discussion guide. HERE. | |
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| Quizlet study guide. HERE. | |
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Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Movie
Reosurces for texts used in 2016Romeo and Juliet |
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| Read Romeo and Juliet for FREE here. GoodReads. | ||
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| Visit Shakespeare Online for a great study guide. | ||
| The Penguin guide to Romeo and Juliet | ||
| SparkNotes study guide | ||
| CliffNotes study guide or try a CliffNotes Quiz | ||
| The Best Notes study guide. | ||
| Gradesaver study guide. | ||
| Classic Stage Company study guide. | ||
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Past the shallows, Favel Parrett |
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| An interview with the author on BooktopiaBlog. | ||
| An interview with the author on Readings site. | ||
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| First Tuesday book club – You can also watch a video on this site. | ||
| The conversation | ||
| An interesting Meanjin article comparing PTS with Sea Hearts | ||
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| Crickey.com review | ||
| Sydney Morning Herald review. | ||
| A review on Musings of a Literary Dilettante’s Blog | ||
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| Reading group notes from publisher Hachette. | ||
| Full text lesson plan from Braemar College. | ||
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Will you please be quiet please, Raymond Carver |
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| Read one person’s impressions in this Sitting Bee article. | ||
| Read this review by Geoffrey Wolff on New York Times on the Web. | ||
| Read a review on The Artifice. | ||
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| Flip-side of the American dream. Read an article in the Sydney Morning Herald here. | ||
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| eNotes Study Guide. | ||
| Spark Notes study guide. | ||
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| Hear a discussion about the book, first heard on ABC radio with Libbi Gorr & Russell Forster, English teacher at Bacchus Marsh Grammar. | ||
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Watch this discussion with Tony Birch & Josephine Rowe, sponsored by the Wheeler Centre. (20 Min.) |
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Resources for texts used in 2014. |
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The Chronicles of Clovis |
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Available for FREE at Project Gutenberg.Your choice of epub, Kindle, Ipad, Iphone or read online. |
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The Perks of being a Wallflower |
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| Read more than 30,000 reviews at Goodreads. | ||
| Read the Wikipedia article here. | ||
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| Shmoop study guide | ||
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| Should ‘Wallflower’ be banned from schools? Follow the discussion on this CBC site. | ||
Growing up Asian in Australia |
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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 | ||
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| Watch a video of Alice Pung on her love of writing. | ||
| Alice Pung on growing up as an Asian in Australia. | ||
The Rip. Robert Drewe |
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| Read an extract here. Word Doc | ||
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| Wikipedia article. | ||
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| Read a review in The Age. | ||
| Read a review at Suite 101. | ||
| Read a review here. | ||
| A review on literaryminded. | ||
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| Robert Drewe discusses The Rip on The Monthly site. | ||
| Robert Drewe discusses The Rip. | ||