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- ‘The language of division and exclusion is more prevalent in online spaces.’ To what extent is this true?
- “Messaging Culture”: Agnes Callard, Waleed Aly and Jayne Hrdlicka Virgin
- “National” identity: tenor, social values, social cohesion; diversity and “one and free”: Australia Day Speeches
- “Rear Window” : a film by Alfred Hitchcock: “Rear-window ethics” by Dr Jennifer Minter
- “Revolt against revolting web content is working”
- “Strine”: Aussie (non-standard) English ; our “mateship” narrative: the use of the vernacular and social values
- “Taboo” language examples (2020)
- “The thing around your neck” by Chimamanda Adichie
- “The Thing around your Neck” in C.N. Adichie’s anthology
- “The Whirlpool” by Cate Kennedy
- “Some Schools fail the test”, Exercise 33, p. 79
- “The Beat of a Different Drum” by Simon Tong
- (2020) Linguistic features and official documents; relating to COVID-19
- (Green) Exercise 14: Get a barn, p. 20
- (Green) Exercise 15, At your discretion
- (Green) Exercise 16, Community News, p. 23
- (Green) Exercise 19, p. 32 Child weekly (Ms Crossway)
- (Green) Exercise 24, Fashion Fun, pp 42-3
- (Green) Exercise 27, Shine Editor: One punch too many
- (Green) Exercises 19 and 20
- (Green) Give Cyclists a Break, Ex 26, p. 40
- (Green) Lesson 5: Exercise 22 p 36
- (Green) Reasons: exercise 18, p. 28
- (Green) Reasons: Exercise 20, p 31
- (Green) Toeing the line and Taxing sugar products
- (Green): Exercise 17, p. 27
- (Orange) Argument & Techniques Program
- (Orange) Arguments 2020: Arguments and Persuasive Language: analysing and presenting opinion-based texts (sample pages)
- (Orange) Arguments and Persuasive Language
- (Orange) Exercise 1, p. 8. Articles on argument structure
- (Orange) Exercise 22, Comparative paragraphs
- (Orange) Exercise 22, Student’s response and comments
- (Orange) Exercise 22, Time to put a foot down
- (Orange) Exercise 31, Free Speech Matters, p. 74
- (Orange) Exercise 34, Seashells p. 79
- (Orange) Extension activity: two similar key ideas, Ex 29
- (Orange) paragraphs: Exercise 11: 42-43
- (Orange) Text 27: Skinning the cat in more ways than one
- (Orange) Texts 8 and 32: police body cameras
- (Orange) Turn to Exercise 22, pp. 62-63
- (Orange) Workbook Arguments, p 70, Ex 29
- (Red) Exercise 32, Outright bans, p. 43
- (Red) Exercise 40, Nosing Around
- (Red) On the attack: Exercises 28-32
- (Red) Persuasive Language: Extension Exercises
- (Red) Revision: Letters re euthanasia laws, p. 65
- (Red) Turn to Exercise 19 p. 30
- (Yellow) Chapter 2: Exercise 10, p. 31
- (Yellow) Chapter 2: Exercise 6, p. 24
- (Yellow) Chapter 2: Exercise 8, p. 28
- (Yellow) Chapter 2: Exercise 9, p. 30
- (Yellow) Chapter 2: Reasoning
- (Yellow) Exercise 2, Essay: Child beauty pageants, p. 34
- (Yellow) Exercise 25, Attack, p. 63
- (Yellow) Exercise 28, p. 67
- (Yellow) Exercise 29, Rate rise for junk food outlets, p. 68
- 1 popup survey test
- 12 Angry Men: R Rose, Quotes
- 12 Angry Men: Rose’s views and values
- 12 Angry Men: Sample essays (justice/jurors)
- 1984 and Stasiland
- 1984 Examples
- 1984: some easy-to-follow notes
- 1984: some typical essays
- 1998 Boyer Lecture: we shape the landscape
- 2009 VCA English Language Exam: Got the message
- 2014 English Language Exam commentary Quick Fix
- 2017 VCE Exam: Tim Minchin’s acceptance speech – logie awards (2024-2028 Study Design)
- 2023 Argument Analysis: Persuasive Language sessions via Zoom
- 2023 New Study Design: “purpose”, key ideas and depth
- 2023 Sessions for Year 12: (in person and via zoom) specific texts and argument analysis classes
- 2023 Study Design Crafting pieces
- 2023 Summer Poems W B Yeats Wild Swans
- 2023 Summer Break excerpts
- 2023 Summer Break Writing Tips: Literary Excerpts
- 2023 Summer Class poems Sylvia Plath Morning Song
- 2023 Summer classes, excerpts and poems Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
- 2023 VCE Foundation Program
- 2025 VCE Preparation Classes
- A (hybrid) essay: Wag the Dog (middle notes)
- A (hybrid) expository essay : Whose Reality /Wag the Dog
- A Checklist of an author’s key ideas, views, values, message
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Dinner by Charles Dickens
- A clash of ideology, Kirsty Mendelson
- A fully objective view of reality?
- A Head start (years 7-8-9)
- A person with a disability (Jayden Evans: Love on the Spectrum/ Q&A)
- A persuasive essay: sugar tax
- A sample plan/essay : how does Rose show his approval of the jury system
- A Separation (film) (conflict)
- A series of “open” letters (based on The Lot)
- A series of essay plans for No Sugar
- A spoken conversation: informal text: 2005 Exam
- A student’s response and comments, Exercise 28 p. 72.
- A tradesperson: (social) identity: plumber/electrician (jargon and “strine”)
- A variety of essay topics
- A world of illusions (Speech : Sally Dalton, youth and wellbeing consultant)
- A+ reading, writing, essay-writing resources
- Aboriginal English: First Nations cultural identity
- Aboriginal English: English Language
- Aboriginal English: identities; Tasman Keith 2021 Dreaming Award
- Aboriginal English: overt prestige and identity markers (NITV)
- Aboriginal Englishes: unique, diverse, ancient and evolving – numerous examples and quotes
- About Us
- Ageist Attitudes; social attitudes and change; the WHO report and Life Matters
- All about Eve: build a para around views and values
- All About Eve: views, values and critical scenes
- An analysis of the rooster coop
- An Anthology: Australian Literary Landscapes : The Face in the Mirror (Blossom Beeby), p. 59
- An Australian Anthology: a literary landscape: Poems of the Dreamtime, p. 4
- An Australian Anthology: a literary snapshot: The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson, p. 20
- An Australian Anthology: a snapshot of literary landscapes
- An Australian Anthology: a snapshot of literary landscapes, : The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do, p. 66-67
- An Australian Anthology: a snapshot of literary landscapes, Baked Beans and Burnt Toast p. 55
- An Australian Anthology: a snapshot of literary landscapes: “Chinese Dancing, Bendigo Style” by Joo-Inn Chew, p. 48
- An essay : how language reflects changing social attitudes
- An expert: Exercises 41 and 42
- An in-built (male/white) default position (the in-group)
- An Individual’s use of language is shaped by social attitudes.
- An understanding of Standard Australian English is needed to be able to communicate in all contexts in contemporary Australian society. To what extent is this true?
- Analysing Argument: Year 12
- Analysing Arguments (opinion-based texts/tasks)
- Analysing Arguments: perfect practice for VCE
- Analysing opinion-based persuasive texts
- Analytical and text-response skills
- Analytical commentary: English Language structure
- Animal Farm
- Animal Farm notes
- Animal Farm: Napoleon’s brutal tactics
- Area Study 1: Informal Language
- Area Study 2: Formal Language
- Argument Analysis 2020: Newly published workbook: Arguments and Persuasive Language: analysing and presenting your own opinion-based texts
- Arguments 2020: Arguments and Persuasive Language
- Arguments and Language Analysis
- Arguments and Language: Tips, Question and Answer
- Arguments and Persuasive Language
- Arguments and Persuasive Language (VCE): Membership Page
- Arguments and persuasive language: 2024-2027 VCE Study Design
- Arguments and Techniques
- Arguments, p. 66, Dr Sue Johnson
- Arguments, persuasive techniques, good quality writing, grammatically correct sentences, polished expression, sophisticated structure.
- Arguments/techniques analytical skills
- Asher Learmonth, a Cranbookian, speech to his Year 12 cohort, re sexist language and behaviour
- Aspects of Australian English and national identity
- AUKUS Submarine deal: SAE, jargon, doublespeak: Minister’s double speak 2024
- Aussie English: our differences (Lenie Johanson)
- Aussie identity: the “mateship” narrative and numerous examples
- Aussie Slang and the changing pace of strine
- Australian Anthology: Selected Epistles by Olivia Muscat, p. 77
- Australian Literary Landscapes
- Australian Slang and OZ English
- Australian vernacular, strine, change and identity markers
- Become an expert: the passive
- Before and After Student Examples
- Better Essays & Persuasive Techniques
- Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques
- Better Essays Exercise 30 Student Response
- Better Essays Page
- Better Essays: a list of persuasive essays
- Better Essays: Chapter Outline
- Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard
- Blended Overt and covert Professional Identities: singer song-writer Katie Noonan
- Blog
- Books
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent’s intentions
- Calling it out: Scrabble, Mattel, the ‘Unmute” campaign; Christine Holgate ex CEO
- Cart
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Catcher in the Rye
- Cate Campbell Speech to Fina Summary, Round up and Further Learning
- Cell One in The Thing Around Your Neck by C.N. Adichie
- Chanel Contos, online petition; sexist language and assault
- Change to Universities, by Dr Chuck Slater (Exercise 26)
- Chapter 1: Extra activities
- Chapter 2, Exercise 11 Pocket Money
- Chapter 2, Exercise 13, p. 35
- Chapter 2, p. 23 (Loony Idea)
- Chapter 2: Exercise 1, p. 23
- Chapter 2: Exercise 11, p. 33
- Chapter 2: Exercise 12, p. 34
- Chapter 2: Exercise 15, p. 41
- Chapter 2: extra activities
- Chapter 3, Exercise 21, Animal Testing
- Chapter 3, Exercise 25, p. 63
- Chapter 3, Exercise 26, p. 64
- Chapter 3, Exercise 31, p. 74
- Chapter 3: Exercise 17, p. 45
- Chapter 3: Exercise 20, p. 52
- Chapter 3: Exercise 21 p. 57
- Chapter 3: Exercise 22, p. 58
- Chapter 3: Exercise 23 (further)
- Chapter 3: Exercise 23, p. 59
- Chapter 3: Exercise 26, p. 64
- Chapter 3: Exercise 30, pp 73-4
- Chapter 3: extra activities
- Chapter 3: Persuasive strategies (Ex 18-29)
- Chapter 4, Vaccinations, p. 84
- Chapter 4: Different Persuasive Text Types
- Chapter 4: Exercise 33, p. 79
- Chapter 4: Exercise 37 Vaccinations
- Chapter 4: Persuasive Text Types
- Character-based stories
- Characterisation (7 – 10)
- Characteristics of Spoken Informal Language: summary
- Characters, Ideas, Connor and Kayne
- Charlie’s Country (and comparative essays with Tracks) (Book Pairs)
- Checkout
- Christopher’s limitations and his strengths
- Class Saturday 24th February New Words
- Class tasks and focus: Sunday 10.45 to 11.45
- Class Tasks VCE Prep: 3rd February:
- Class tasks: VCE prep (Saturday 10.15)
- Clear language, analogies, face needs; letter writers; discourse features
- Clear writing, plain English and plain language
- Close passage analysis
- Close Passage Analysis
- Cloudstreet paragraphs on characters/themes
- Cohesion and coherence: summary
- Cold Snap by Cate Kennedy
- Commentary : an effective structure
- Commentary of Prime Minister’s Australia Day Speech 2024 (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Commentary practice
- Commentary: VCAA English Language 2006: Water Board
- Comparative paragraphs: student samples based on power
- Comparing justice and the abuse of power in several texts
- Conflict – deeper ideas; ambivalence and contradictions
- Conflict and Every Man (Stack)
- Conflict of ideas; progress and change
- Constructed realities: dictators and governments
- Contact us
- Contemporary Examples of Doublespeak (Formal/Corporate)
- Contemporary language examples: face needs and “double speak” and slogans
- Contemporary linguistic examples – 2024
- Control of Paragraph: Step 1 – 3: Ms Smith (56) Leunig’s mummy cartoon
- Cosi by Louis Nowra (Notes by English Works)
- Courses
- Covert, non-standard Australian English: linguistic features reflect social and cultural identity codes: sports people
- Creating Texts: Writing About Personal Journeys
- Creative sample: pets as an allegory
- Creative Sketch : Mrs Dubose
- Creative strategies used by authors
- Creative writing tasks
- Crucible and Dressmaker (Home page)
- Crucible and Year of Wonders
- Crucible and Year of Wonders – shared ideas (topic sentences)
- Crucible and Year of Wonders: Summary quotes and notes
- Crucible Quotes
- Crucible: dilemmas and choices
- Crucible/Dressmaker class
- Customised Year-level Workbook (specific texts): one-stop shop
- David Crystal on “punctuating the internet”
- David Crystal on Language Change
- David Crystal on punctuation and “pragmatic tolerance”
- Death of a salesman
- Defamation laws, the ABC and Nine network against Chau Chak Wing
- Desire and illusion in Death of a Salesman
- Different aspects of reality: soldiers at war
- Different versions of reality
- Dinky Di Aussie Bloke
- Does political correctness unite us or divide us?Political correctness, social gaffes and language change (formal language)
- Don Watson and Watsonia
- Dorothy Hewett’s This Old Man Comes Rolling Home (1976)
- Double speak and dysphemisms
- Doublespeak and George Orwell
- Dr Jenny’s 10.30 class: new venue; best possible preparation for Year 12
- Dr Jenny’s 2.30 class: VCE preparation
- Dr Jenny’s classes: regroup; reading; writing; expressing, evaluating and thinking.
- Dr Jenny’s January Holiday Sessions
- Dr Jenny’s lessons (2024)
- Dr Jenny’s targeted workshops (2022)
- Dragging their feet: p. 6 and 31
- Drug testing defies logic, by Mr Jim Shanahan
- Drug tests for welfare recipients
- Dylan Alcott Australian of the Year 2022
- EAL: Persuasive techniques
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
- Edgar Allen Poe and “tales of mystery and imagination”
- Encountering Conflict
- English and essay-writing skills: middle years: Lessons, tasks and homework page
- English Extension Activities
- English Language Essays
- English Language Examples for Essays: linguistic analysis
- English Language Examples: Formal and Informal Language
- English Language Membership Program
- English Language Resources
- English Language Resources 2016
- English Language Resources 2021: The benefits of our Membership Program
- English Skills for Naplan, Scholarship and VCE
- English Works Analytical Vocab Builder
- English Works classes
- English Works Classes 2021 with Dr Jenny
- English Works Classic Short Stories by the masters
- English Works Extension Program
- English Works Reader Blue Book
- English Works Short Classics Anthology Home Page
- English Works Short Classics Anthology: A Blind Man in the Street by C J Dennis
- English Works Short Classics Anthology: The Tables Turned
- English Works Spell Check
- Essay 1: Formal language is mainly used to clarify meaning, but it can also be used to obfuscate.
- Essay 1: Social identity is constructed primarily through language. Discuss referring to at least two subsystems.
- Essay 1: The nature of digital communication, for better or worse, is changing the way we use the English Language.
- Essay 10: social attitudes towards taboo language and swearing
- Essay 11: formal language favours those in positions of power and influence. Discuss.
- Essay 2: Contemporary Australians use a number of overt and covert language norms to construct their identity. (Also: Our linguistic repertoires can be used to exploit overt and covert norms, helping achieve our aspirations.’ (2022)
- Essay 2: The language choices we make reflect who we are and the social groups to which we belong.
- Essay 3: Freedom of speech is a double-edged sword
- Essay 4: Discuss the role of covert linguistic practices in establishing group solidarity.
- Essay 4: Formal language can both promote and prevent social harmony. To what extent do you agree?
- Essay 5: How have changing social attitudes influenced language use in Australia. Discuss.
- Essay 6: “All euphemistic language, including doublespeak, is at heart a lie to conceal truth and as such, should play no part in effective communication”. Discuss, referring to at least two subsystems in your response.
- Essay 8: Language is a tool for building but it is also a weapon – it depends on the user. Discuss.
- Essay 9: Language is a powerful tool that influences social attitudes. ‘In contemporary Australian society, we must be careful with our use of language in public contexts.’ (2021)
- Essay based on Growing Up Asian in Australia
- Essay on language change
- Essay on Tenor: ‘Without a doubt, the tenor of a conversation has the most influence on the politeness strategies of the participants.’
- Essay plan: a simple straightforward structure
- Essay Prompt: The evolving nature of our language largely reflects the influence other cultures have on the way we communicate.’ (2022) To what extent is this true in contemporary Australian society? Refer to at least two subsystems of language in your response
- Essay prompt: ‘How does language variation contribute to the development of a sense of identity?’ Discuss with relation to contemporary Australian society. Refer to at least two subsystems in your response.
- Essay Prompt: ‘The language of division and exclusion is more prevalent in online spaces.’ To what extent is this true?
- Essay prompt: How do evolving language features reflect the varying individual identities?
- Essay prompts on national identity
- Essay Revision Tasks: Exercise 36, p. 87
- Essay Samples
- Essay writing and Grammar
- Essay-writing notes for General Achievement Test
- Essay: english language reflects our identity
- Essay: language reflects the identity of youth (national identity etc.)
- Essay: Public language include and exclude
- Essay: Slang plays an important role in establishing individual and group identities. Discuss.
- Essay: Standard Australian English is the most prestigious in Australian society.
- Essay: the role of informal language
- Essay: Users must negotiate positive and negative face needs when communicating successfully
- Essays about film-watching: Rear Window (Dr Jenny)
- Essays and language change
- Essays and quotes on Language Change
- Essays for English Language: comments from linguists and social and political commentators
- Essays Made Easy for English Language (VCE Units 3-4)
- Essays Revision Exercise: 35, p. 84
- Essays: Exercise 1, p. 6
- Ethnolects and Ethnic non-standard varieties of Australian English
- Euphemisms and face-saving terms
- Euphemisms: double speak and misleading terms
- Evading reality (personal experience)
- EW Short Classics Anthology: Excerpt from Tom Sawyer, p 22
- EW Short Classics Mending Wall Robert Frost
- EW Short Classics: Trying to Please
- Exam Revision Section : summaries etc
- Exam tips: writing your commentary
- Example 1 On-site pill tests : a reality check
- Example 11: Lord of the flies, the conch
- Example 12: Lord of the flies, the twins
- Example 13, Lord of the flies, the hunters
- Example 14, Lord of the flies, Simon
- Example 4, Exercise 4, Sugar additives leave a sour taste
- Example analysis from Two Of Us
- Examples of Aboriginal English
- Examples of Language Change
- Examples of spoken discourse (informal characteristics – non-fluency features)
- Examples of the “true blue” Aussie: a national icon?
- Exclusive (sexist) language 2016
- Exercise 1: Jason’s Speech (Medea)
- Exercise 10, Dr Johnson, p. 40
- Exercise 10, p. 40: student responses
- Exercise 10: Animal Farm: the hen’s rebellion
- Exercise 11, p. 22 “Monkey see, monkey do!
- Exercise 12, Green Workbook Program, Naplan test, p. 16
- Exercise 13
- Exercise 13, Bring back the strap, p. 45
- Exercise 13, Bring Back the Strap, pp. 44
- Exercise 13, pp. 44-45
- Exercise 14, “Get a barn”, p 20
- Exercise 14, Ban Mobile Phones in cars, p. 38
- Exercise 14, Destroying ancient songlines, p. 19 (Green workbook)
- Exercise 15, Mr Pete Spark, p. 47
- Exercise 15, p. 22 (Green/advanced)
- Exercise 15, Students @ Spencer pp 47-8
- Exercise 15, The student debt crisis, p. 46
- Exercise 15, Trigger alerts, Ms Tina Hagen p. 47
- Exercise 15, Ungrateful students, p. 46
- Exercise 15: A ban on smacking, pp 40-41
- Exercise 15: Medea’s reasons
- Exercise 16, A later start time at secondary school?, p. 42
- Exercise 16, Braids and uniforms, p. 27
- Exercise 16, Vaccinations, p. 23 Metalanguage
- Exercise 17, p. 51 (Orange)
- Exercise 17, No Jab No Play, p. 23
- Exercise 17, p. 29, Easy targets for thieves
- Exercise 17, p. 29. Working your sentences, p. 85
- Exercise 17, pg 51 (Orange workbook)
- Exercise 18 and 19: Brain injury awareness week (p. 46)
- Exercise 2: Simon Tong’s experiences
- Exercise 21, p. 32 “Toe the Line” (Green/Orange)
- Exercise 22, p. 36 Sport Talk
- Exercise 23, p. 59 (Better Essays
- Exercise 24, Swings and Playgrounds, p. 60
- Exercise 25, p. 63: Extension
- Exercise 26: Ungrateful students
- Exercise 27: Editorial : Fat tax.
- Exercise 28, Seashells, Ms Achton
- Exercise 28: Aim for an impact
- Exercise 29, p. 71 (Orange workbook)
- Exercise 3 : Animal Farm Major’s speech
- Exercise 3 and 4, Helmets for youngsters, p. 12
- Exercise 31, p. 56 Nightmare they Deserve
- Exercise 33: Anna’s mother begs for change
- Exercise 34, Animal Testing
- Exercise 34: Animal Testing
- Exercise 36, p. 87 The Plastic Bag Problem
- Exercise 37, p. 50: Yes Big Brother is watching you
- Exercise 37: Big Brother and Computer games
- Exercise 37: Why you should be worried, p. 50
- Exercise 39, p. 69 Camelcide
- Exercise 4, analysing arguments
- Exercise 4: I’m Not Scared
- Exercise 42: HT Bank by Jonathon Tigfield
- Exercise 43, Equality rules the day
- Exercise 5, Safe Schools, p. 13
- Exercise 5: 12 Angry Men 3rd and 10th Jurors
- Exercise 6: Medea, Medea’s speech
- Exercise 7, Puppy factories, p. 10
- Exercise 7: A need to rethink recycling: a problem with a solution (p. 11)
- Exercise 7: Animal Farm/Napoleon’s comments
- Exercise 8, Legalising cannibas for good reasons, p.17
- Exercise 8, P-plate restrictions: p. 28
- Exercise 8: 12 Angry Men, the 8th juror
- Exercise 9 : Blossom Beeby Growing Up Asian
- Exercise 9, analysing arguments: on public transport
- Exercise 9, Example 1: Wind farms
- Exercises 8-9, p. 12, Green Workbook
- Expert: now “turn to” exercises
- Exploring Nature: themes and key ideas in Wordsworth’s poems
- Extended Task: Sentences and Structure (2014 Exam)
- Extension activities : Exercise 7
- Extension Classes Sunday 2 September
- Extension Level 1 (Yrs 8-9)
- Extension Level 2 (VCE preparation)
- Extra exercises: Red Workbook tasks
- Extra notes for No Sugar
- Face needs: National Identity: The language regarding the Voice: draws together and divides
- Face needs: politeness factors and social harmony
- Factors affecting language change: New words: dictionaries
- Factors driving language change
- Factors that inhibit a fair trial 12 Angry Men
- Family Life, Diem Vo
- FAQs
- FAQs for students
- Favourite parallels for Death of a Salesman
- Film metalanguage: writing on a film
- Films
- First Nations : linguistic features from key poems
- First Nations people, Cape York Noel Pearson, lawyer, legal reformer, land rights activist, academic
- First Nations People; Mitch Tambo and Patty Mills
- First Nations people: Cultural and Social identity Rangers “In country”
- First Pitch for Kids, First Pivot: VCAA 2022, Commentary Text B (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Five Ways to Disappoint your Mother, Diana Nguyen
- Fly Away Peter (Malouf)
- Foe: writing and difference
- For Blackburn HS Year 12 Students
- For Parents
- For Students
- For Teachers
- Formal / Public Language and Essays and quotes
- Formal and informal language
- Formal and Public language examples (2024)
- Formal features: Government Press Releases; Official websites and decrees:
- Formal Language
- Formal language and jargon; language variation, and group identity
- Formal language overview and linguistic examples
- Formal language used to clarify: NewsCorp and workplace and doublespeak and Mr Morrison
- Formal language; reinforcing authority; leadership and prestige/ Orwell and Napoleon
- Formal language: linguistic features; clarity; jargon etc. and the Travel Voucher Scheme
- Formal language: social purpose (positive face needs) and politeness conventions and mechanisms
- Formal Speeches (2022): the Prime Minister and the Governor General
- Formal/public language essays
- Framing our realities
- Frankenstein: who is to blame?
- Freedom of Speech and Charlie Hebdo notes/analysis
- Freedom of Speech, Political Correctness, taboos
- Freedom of Speech: Gillian Triggs (Speaking Up)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Function, intent and purpose (Study Design 2024-2028, Roman Jakobson)
- Galileo: best parallels
- Gattaca
- Genderlects: diverse identities: language, pronouns and profiles;
- Generals Die In Bed (Charles Harrison)
- Geoffrey Robertson – Putin’s war in Ukraine
- George Orwell and David Crystal: Doublespeak
- George Orwell: “Why I Write”: public language and double speak
- Glossary of Metalanguage
- Glossary of terms for spoken informal discourse
- Government Style Guide: SAE and Formal Language: accessibility and inclusivity
- Grammar Support
- Grammar Tasks (7 – 10)
- Green Workbook, p. 35, Exercise 22: Sport Talk
- Green Workbook: “A need to re-think recycling: a problem with a solution”, (Exercise 7, p. 11, Green Workbook)
- Green workbook: (7) the author’s words, pp 37-47
- Group Identity: female sportspeople
- Group identity: sporting clubs and membership (Richmond Football Club)
- Growing Up Asian: identity and difference
- Gwen Harwood; poems and themes, commentaries and essays, poetic terminology and quotes
- Hands-free parenting: a form of child abuse, p. 34
- Harmony Week 2024: Australia is a multicultural success story; national identity; tenor; face needs
- Hate speech acts: positive face needs and social values
- Hate speech and hate conduct: rallies and comments: Eddie Betts, racial slurs; neo Nazis
- Having a sense of difference- The Mind of a Thief (Patti Miller)
- Head Start Classes (Years 6-7-8)
- home
- Homework for Sunday 11.15
- Homework page Sunday 11.15
- Homework page, Sunday 3.15
- Homework Page: 1.15 and 2.30 Class
- Homework page: Sunday Advanced Year 8
- Homework Sunday 3.15 pm Spelling Tasks
- Homework tasks
- Homework Tasks
- Homework tasks : Years 7-10
- Homework Tasks Feline Furious
- Homework Tasks Page
- Homophobic speech acts; Josh Cavallo and his Instagram post
- Hong Kong bookseller and Edward Snowden
- Honorifics, pronouns and LGBT +++ and Rainbow Champions 2023
- How does Big Brother pose a threat to everyone?
- How to write an A+ essay on Sunset Boulevard
- How to write an A+ essay: argument analysis
- How to Write an Analytical Commentary
- How to Write an Analytical Commentary for English Language (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Hybrid Essay: Some concluding stories: Wag the Dog
- Hybrid essays: wag the dog
- I for Isobel, Amy Witting
- I’m Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti
- Ideas, quotes and anecdotes
- Identity
- Identity and Difference
- Identity and difference
- Identity and Social Groups
- Identity and the role of slang
- Identity as a story
- Identity Essay 2: Contemporary Australians use a number of overt and covert language norms to construct their identity. (Also: Our linguistic repertoires can be used to exploit overt and covert norms, helping achieve our aspirations.’ (2022)
- Identity of First Nations People: Uluru Statement from the Heart
- Identity, quotes and essays
- Identity/conflict: what the experts say
- Illusions help us deal with loss (psychologist)
- Illusions helps us deal with loss (psychologist)
- Imaginary : the land is me
- Imaginary Landscapes
- Imaginary landscapes : essays and topic sentences
- Imaginary landscapes essay topics and key ideas
- Imaginary Landscapes Years 11 -12
- Imaginary Landscapes- summary page
- Imaginary Landscapes: a place of fear and despair
- Improve Your Essays: use metalanguage to good effect: Analytical Terms
- Improve your thinking skills: exercises from our Zoom classes on Persuasive Essays
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – a murder of contrasts, Dr Jennifer Minter
- In the 21st century, Australian English embraces change despite concerns from traditionalists. Discuss referring to at least 2 subsystems.
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
- Inclusive language: social change
- Inclusive/exclusive language; freedom of speech : The Acts
- Index of essay-writing examples 2015 – 2016
- Index of examples relating to Identity and language
- Inflammatory language and discourse, Elon Musk and X and the Sydney bishop 2024
- Informal : Written: 2013 Exam: Be Natural Advertisement (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Informal examples: 2022 Tweed Council residents “Your Say” comments
- Informal Language Features : Examples 2024
- Informal language has a variety of functions in Australian society. What do you see are some of the crucial roles of informal language in contemporary Australia?
- Informal language: Language variation and social purpose
- Informal language: other subsystems
- Informal Language: Taboos and tenor and face needs and inclusive/exclusive language
- Informal language: the vernacular, slang, profanities and informal discourse markers
- Informal linguistic features: “Strine” (The Aussie Vernacular)
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri : “Trying to belong” by Dr Jennifer Minter
- Interview (Spoken) Formal/Informal: 2016 VCAA Exam
- Into the Wild, Sean Penn
- Invictus Quotes
- Island (Alistair MacLeod)
- J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and Whose Reality
- John Kinsella’s poems
- Join Us
- Justice
- Kevin Lai, ABC Grocery Store
- Key Concepts for Skin Deep
- Key concepts for The Doll
- Key Concepts Whose Reality Death of a Salesman
- Key concepts: Mind of a Thief
- King Henry IV: Part One
- Kyle Sandilands defames Virgin Mary: taboo
- Landscape as “point of view” (Andrew Taylor and John Kinsella)
- Landscape as a projection of inner life
- Landscape design (as extended metaphor) based on John Kinsella
- Landscapes: fact or fiction?
- Lang Analysis/Crucible/YOW class
- Language Analysis Paragraph Plan
- Language Analysis Resources – Years 11 – 12
- Language Analysis Resources – Years 7-10
- Language Analysis Resources Years 7 – 10
- Language Analysis: how to improve: Lesson Update:
- Language Analysis: ongoing summary for VCE students (2018)
- Language and Change
- Language and Grammar
- Language can be used to negotiate social relationships and to mark group boundaries.
- Language change: according to the linguists. (David Crystal and Kate Burridge)
- Language Change: Technology and online trends
- Language features and characteristics (Study Design 2024 – 2028)
- Language used to manipulate, camouflage and exclude
- Language, Group Identity, Slang and Jargon
- Language: First Nations identity cultural expression social values and language
- Larrikins and “strine”: Jono and Goughie
- Lesson 1 on Medea (10/2) Three aspects
- Lesson 1, Exercise 12, p. 15
- Lesson 1, Exercise 6, p. 9 (Green Program)
- Lesson 1: Exercise 11: Be nice
- Lesson 1: Viewpoints
- Lesson 1: which persuasive strategies?
- Lesson 1b: Interrelated strategies
- Lesson 2 b: evidence and observations
- Lesson 2: Admirable and undesirable characters
- Lesson 2: evidence and observations
- Lesson 2: setting up the paragraph
- Lesson 2: student responses and comments
- Lesson 2: the Bradfords
- Lesson 2: Tone and Style
- Lesson 2: Turn to Exercise 13
- Lesson 2: undesirable characters
- Lesson 2b: people and paragraphs
- Lesson 3: building paragraphs
- Lesson 3: Exercise 16, p. 38
- Lesson 3: Exercise 17, p. 27
- Lesson 3: Exercises 9 and 10
- Lesson 3: specific words and appeals
- Lesson 3: the author’s subtext
- Lesson 3: The author’s words
- Lesson 4: Evidence and Reasons
- Lesson 4: turn to Exercise 21
- Lesson 4: author’s appeals
- Lesson 4: author’s reasons
- Lesson 4: contrasting portrayals
- Lesson 4: Ex 18, taking it further
- Lesson 4: Extension Exercise 21: Toe the Line
- Lesson 4: the author’s reasons
- Lesson 4b: contrasting portrayals
- Lesson 4b: purpose and impact
- Lesson 4b: Student Responses
- Lesson 5: Appeals p. 44-53
- Lesson 5: Comparative essays
- Lesson 5: Ex 24, p. 38
- Lesson 5: Sample student response
- Lesson 5: short answer to prose
- Lesson 5: writing your essays
- Lesson 6: annotated student essays
- Lesson 6: Exercise 32, p. 58
- Lesson 6: Exercise 36, activities
- Lesson 6: Exercise 42: Rugby Essay
- Lesson 6: Exercise 43, Equality rules
- Lesson 6: Revision Exercises
- Lesson 6: Revision, Give the puppies a chance, Exercise 44,
- Lesson 6: the author’s attack and words (Feeding Toddlers, cyclists and Shine)
- Lesson 7: Exercise 37, p. 70
- Lesson Plans and Slideshows Better Essays
- Lesson Plans: “Better Essays …”
- Leunig : media and war
- Leunig’s “mummy” cartoon and two letters (Ms Smith/Dr Johnson)
- Life as a “remembered present”: Death of a salesman
- Link to Literature 2023
- Link to New Study Design 2023 Year 11 English
- Literary devices 12 angry men
- Literature Classes
- Localised and personalised stories
- Look Both Ways
- Looking back can alter our reality
- Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
- Mabo by Rachael Perkins
- Mabo: a critical short list
- Macbeth : sample paragraphs
- Macbeth and the Gunpowder plot
- Macbeth as the basis for a comparative essay
- Macbeth Resource Package of Notes, essays, plans, quotes, techniques
- Macbeth Study Page
- Macbeth: a study in power
- Macbeth’s Moral Conflict
- Macbeth’s moral downfall
- Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
- Main ideas and concepts for essays for whose reality
- Making the transition from Year 11 to Year 12
- Maus: A student’s essay, written with my assistance
- Medea – Study Page
- Medea : notes from class
- Medea and Intertextual Greek mythical references
- Medea by Euripides
- Medea: role of Jason and Creon
- Medea: the differing and warring personas
- Medea: The role of the chorus
- Media releases: government departments: Premier’s Department: function, purpose, intent, tenor and cultural and situational context
- Megan Stack : Every Man in the village
- Member Login
- member test
- Memory and Desire in Death of a Salesman
- Meredith Cultural Week: testing our mettle
- Metalanguage, subsystems and linguistic features
- Metalanguage: Call to action verbs
- Metalanguage: Sentences to get you started
- Meyne Wyatt’s monologue, public and social media examples; (non-standard; Aboriginal Englishes)
- Michael Leunig’s “Mummy” cartoon: backlash and taboos
- Middle Years (Skills)
- Misrepresenting reality: Willy Loman
- Monster and his hellish rage: the night of William’s death
- Mr Jayant Bapat, Nazi symbol ban important but don’t forget swastika’s original meaning
- Mr Morrison: International Women’s Day Speech
- Much ado about Nothing (William Shakespeare)
- Multiculturalism: identity and English Language
- Multiple identity stories; national identity; Stan Grant is a Wiradjuri man
- My Account
- My Courses
- NAIDOC Week, 2024, Awards and First Nations peoples’ stories and identities
- Najaf and conflict and a crisis
- National Identity, Accents and Strine
- Negative face needs, health restrictions, and freedoms
- Negative face needs: rape claims; “Ask Jenny”: Ms Higgins
- New VCE Study Design: exploring writing styles via the masters (VCE Foundation)
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Nightstreet and landscapes
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: the individual takes on the state
- No Sugar by Jack Davis
- No Sugar: two perspectives
- Noam Chomsky: quotes and summary
- Non-discriminatory (inclusive) language, the philosophy and examples : towards linguistic and social equality
- Non-discriminatory language: race, sexism; disabilities
- Non-standard linguistic features: identity-building; shaping and reinforcing the group’s identity; sporting personalities
- Notes for Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Notes from Paradise Road
- Notes from Quiet American
- Notes from Students: Stasiland
- Notes from the Life of Galileo
- Notes on Falstaff
- Now turn to Exercise (Green book)
- Now Turn to Exercise 10
- Now Turn to Exercise 15
- Now Turn to Exercise 16
- Now Turn to Exercise 19
- Now Turn to Exercise 19
- Now turn to Exercise 20, p 72
- Now turn to Exercise 21, p. 59-61
- Now turn to Exercise 23, p. 74-76
- Now turn to Exercise 25: Kongton Primary School
- Now turn to Exercise 28, p. 71
- Now turn to Exercise 30, p. 73
- Now Turn to Exercises
- Now turn to Text 63: Seashells Newsletter, Mr Louv, pp. 82-84
- Offers
- Old Major’s Speech and the Communist Manifesto
- On Hate: Hate speech: and social values (Tim Soutphommasane)
- On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront: Sample Essays
- On-line Trolling; online petitions and sexist language
- One Plus One: Interview 2023: Aboriginal Elder: Senior Australian of the Year 2021 Dr Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann
- Online trolling, hate speech and informal language
- Online Tutorials Years 11 -12
- Online Tutorials Years 7 – 10
- Opinion Feline Furious
- Orange Text 27 Skinning the Cat: breakdown of argument
- Orange workbook, P. 28, Mr Louv
- Orange Workbook: a series of lessons
- Orange, Exercise 25, p. 63
- Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and the control of language
- Othello by Shakespeare
- Our (hybrid) essay on Wag the Dog: beginnings
- Overt norms: Standard Australian English: national identity: inclusive and diverse
- Overview of Social purpose in commentaries
- Paragraphs: euphemisms and dysphemisms
- Parallels and beginnings
- Parallels for identity texts /characters
- Parallels with Foe and Wag the Dog; stories and power
- Parallels with Paradise Road
- Parents Watch: Mr Jason Simon
- Parents! Please send me your questions
- Patti Miller: The Mind of a Thief (2012)
- People bring their own knowledge
- People Stories from both books
- People stories, Exercise 7, p. 26
- Personal beginnings
- Personal beginnings conflict
- Personal growth and change: The Doll and Mind of a Thief
- Personal Stories
- Personalise the stories
- Persuasive essay writing (7-10)
- Persuasive Techniques/Skills Foundation
- Persuasive writing: essays and slideshows
- Persuasive-essay writing classes (Dr Jenny’s Zoom classes)
- Pigs from Home, Hop Dac
- Please Make a Donation
- Poems for Imaginary Landscapes
- Point of view phrases: sample
- Points to improve your written expression
- Political correctness, woke culture, Minister Dutton’s comments: IDAHOBIT day
- Positions of power: formal language; media commentators; “shock jocks” and outrage at “woke”, “cancel culture” and political correctness
- Possible beginnings: whose reality
- Power: abuse and misuse; prison guards
- Practice topic sentences
- Priam meets Achilles (Homer and Malouf)
- Profanities: essay on swearing
- Profanity is an emotive communicative tool which plays a variety of roles in contemporary Australian society. Discuss.
- Professional voices: jargon, subject-specific linguistic signifiers and group membership
- Public language : inclusion and exclusion
- Public Language 2018-19: exclusive language examples
- Public Language Essays and Quotes
- Public language examples: linguistic analysis
- Public Language: Don Watson: “weasel” words and sludge: Death Sentence
- Public/formal language/values/attitudes: features and purpose
- Publications
- Purpose, purpose, purpose …
- Quick notes for No Sugar – examples of racism
- Quote sheet for Macbeth
- Quotes and literary devices: King Henry IV
- Quotes for identity
- Quotes for Ransom
- Quotes for Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Quotes for Stasiland
- Quoting words with an “analytical” story
- Race hate laws: why they must stay, exercise 25, p. 67
- Ransom and Invictus
- Ransom and invictus paragraphs
- Ransom and Invictus shared ideas and concepts
- Ransom by David Malouf
- Ransom quotes
- Ransom: themes and characters
- Rear Window – symbols and views and values
- Rear Window – teasing out themes of voyeurism
- Rear Window essays: voyeurism theme
- Rear Window: cluster of film techniques for essays
- Rear Window: essay plans (urban-style living and relationships)
- Rear Window: Essay Samples: Jeff and Lisa (Dr Jenny)
- Rear Window: film metalanguage (Dr Jenny)
- Rear Window: film techniques and symbolism
- Rear Window: gender issues (teasing out the issues)
- Rear Window: Gender stereotypes and subversions
- Rear Window: Membership Package (Zoom Lessons and Support material) by Dr Jenny
- Rear Window: murder narrative and contradictions
- Rear Window: Some background (McCarthyism and Townscapes)
- Rear window: themes, and symbols (the metaphoric window)
- Red book: previous edition
- Red Workbook Exercise 41: Revision
- Red Workbook Extension: Ex. 7 p. 11
- Red Workbook Extension: Exercise 26: Plastiki sails
- Red Workbook Extension: Exercise 28
- Red Workbook Extension: Lessons 2 -4 : “Taking it further”
- Red Workbook Tasks: Taking it further, Exercise 41
- Red Workbook, Exercise 19, p. 30
- Red workbook: Extension Exercise 34
- Red Workbook: Extension Exercise 36:
- Red Workbook: Taking it further: Exercise 42
- Register in commentaries: exam revision
- Register, tenor and intent (Study Design 2024-2028) and face needs
- Relationship with place and community and personal growth
- Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Remembering and forgetting
- Resources for Years 11-12
- Revision notes for Language Analysis
- Revision notes for Tobias Wolff
- Revision Notes/paragraphs This Boy’s Life
- Revision Page Whose Reality 2015
- Revision: Is Medea a hero or a villain?
- Rio Tinto’s “double speak” speech act : detonation of the Juukan Gorge caves plus example of national identity
- Role of subsystems English Language
- Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet Tasks/Passages
- Romeo and Juliet: English Works Study Page
- Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence
- Romeo and Juliet: The Nurse
- Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language: Amanda Laugesen
- SACs and Essays: Identity and Language
- SAE and formal register and overt prestige and non-SAE and informal registers and covert prestige
- Sample (hybrid) Essay : Wag the Dog
- Sample Argument/Persuasive language analysis responses VCAA
- Sample beginnings
- Sample creative essay on a different perspective
- Sample essay on Conflict / Megan Stack
- Sample Essay: Women of Troy (Euripides) published by English Works
- Sample Essays Death of a Salesman
- Sample Essays for English Language
- Sample essays on Stasiland
- Sample model essays death of a salesman whose reality
- Sample Model Spire English Exam 2018
- Sample Paragraph Aboriginal English
- Sample paragraphs – EAL-style
- Sample Paragraphs from Death of a Salesman
- Sample paragraphs: language analysis workshop
- Sample Paragraphs: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Sample Paras Romeo and Juliet Text Response
- Sample plans/essays on Animal Farm
- Sample student essay: Macbeth and the nature of evil
- Sandra Laing: identity and differences
- Saturday 1.30 pm VCE Prep class
- Saturday 10th or Sunday 11: sample descriptive story
- Saturday 2.45 pm Class
- Saturday/Sunday 10-11th February: lessons tasks and goals
- Scholarship class: progress report
- Scholarship Classes
- Scholarship Classes
- Scholarship extension : homework
- Scholarship, Essays, Tips, Reading, Excerpts etc.
- School Support
- Section A; short answer: features of spoken discourse; conversational strategies and prosodics
- Section A: short answer and coherence, cohesion and inference
- Section A: short answer, lexical choices, social purpose, identity and relationships
- Section A: short answer: a synopsis of typical short answer questions: notes, questions and responses
- Section A: short answer: sentence types and sentence structures
- Section A: short answer: typical responses: register and purpose
- Section A: Typical short answer: function and purpose (Question 1)
- Section C: Exam Argument Analysis VCAA English Exams
- Section C: Year 12 Exam: Argument and persuasive language: how to get an A+
- security token
- See Australian Anthology: a snapshot of literary landscapes : “Perfect Chinese Children” by Vanessa Woods (p. 50)
- See sample passage
- See student responses, Ex 14, p. 46
- Sentence patterns: wide-branching sentences
- Sexist language; gendered violence; sexualised harrassment
- Sexist language: Alan Jones and “sock” comments (Ms Jacinda Ardern)
- Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
- Shop
- Short Classics Anthology: Lines Written in Early Spring
- Short Classics, the Burglary, p. 43, Model 15
- Short Classics: Mary and Me
- Short Classics: The Blind Men and the Elephant, p. 40
- Short index of essay writing examples for 2015
- Short notes for Death of a Salesman and whose reality ideas
- Short Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Short summary on 8th Juror
- Situational and cultural context (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Skin: Sandra Laing and her courage
- Slang (Kate Burridge)
- Slideshows Years 11 -12
- Slideshows Years 7 – 10
- Smoking at home kills, Ex 30, p.41
- Social attitudes are slow to change: but many community spokespeople are leading the way: face needs
- Social Context
- Social context, audience and essays
- Social purpose and positive face threatening acts : Religious discrimination (Daniel Cash)
- Social values, cricket, informal language and swearing
- Social values: changing attitudes
- Sociolect: Disability advocate and doctor: professional identities : Dr Dinesh Palipana
- Sociolects: Overt Professional identities (social groups): Peak professional bodies: Australian Energy Council and Australian Medical Association
- Sociolects: Professional identities: jargon and specialist language (social identities)
- some “big ideas”
- Some extra homework exercises and short guide
- Some model essay plans on Burial Rites
- Some Paragraphs: Perfect Chinese children
- Some sample 1984 essays based on notes
- Some sample paragraphs for Skin
- Source material for Ransom: Illiad and Achilles
- Special Notes for Students
- Special Two-in-One Deals
- Specialist Classes (Years 10-11)
- Specialist classes with Luke Jansz
- Speech by Jeremy Springer, author of Getting A Grip
- Spies
- St Kevin’s Boys and Sexism
- Stan Grant’s stance against hate speech, Q&A May 2023 – racist fault lines
- Standard Australian English : social and cultural values and language change
- Standard Australian English (SAE): features and benchmarking role
- Standard Australian English and identity and Language
- Standard Australian English: a variety that is granted prestige in contemporary Australian society
- Standard English must remain the most important and prestigious variety in contemporary Australian society. To what extent do you agree. (Refer to subsystems)
- Stasiland by Anna Funder
- Stasiland by Anna Funder
- Stasiland essays
- Stasiland Examples and quotes
- Stasiland People Stories
- Station Eleven themes dissected for topic sentences
- Station Eleven: art, bridges and parallel worlds
- Station Eleven: Dr Jenny’s online lessons; themes and devices
- Station Eleven: essay plans and notes
- Station Eleven: Fame and celebrity
- Station Eleven: Mandel: Dr Jenny’s Summary Page
- Station Eleven: other characters and their stories
- Station Eleven: Religion
- Station Eleven: the role of memories and the “ghosts of the past”
- Station Eleven: the role of religion
- Station Eleven: The Travelling Symphony
- Sticks by George Saunders, p. 17
- Story based on Cold Snap
- Streetcar Named Desire: summary
- Strine and “global gravitas”
- Strine and Aussie mateship/settler narrative
- Student reflection, Wag the Dog
- Student Sample essays on Ransom
- Student sample paras and my suggested improvements
- Student’s sample essay To Kill a Mockingbird: life lessons
- Study Page for Blackburn High Students
- Suggested Tasks 1: essay writing classes
- Summary for Stasiland
- Summary notes and paras for Brooklyn
- Summary notes for Whose Reality
- Summary notes on Medea
- Summary of Short Answer Questions by category: exam revision
- Summary of Examples for Essays in Table Format 2022
- Summary of Function and Purpose across the sections
- Summary of lesson : Sunday 8th January: poems, textual excerpt, letters to the editor,
- Summary of notes for Conflict
- Summary of Tasks for our English Language Classes
- Summary page for Identity
- Summary page for Skin
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
- Sunday 11.15 am VCE prep class
- SUNDAY 11TH JANUARY Scholarship Class Years 8-9
- Sunday 12.30 pm
- Sunday 2 pm : Structure and depth
- Sunday 2 pm VCE class
- Sunday 3.15 pm
- Sunday 4.30 pm VCE Preparation
- Sunset Boulevard: a high scoring essay
- Super Book plus e-licence and extra e-books
- Support Animal Lives, Appeals, Exercise 36
- Suspension: Israel Folau and Dr Lee (2019)
- Swearing: public contexts and language change
- Symbolic scenes and events
- Taboo language: overt and covert homophobic and racist language: court cases: Mark Latham and Pauline Hanson
- Taboo topics, social attitudes, language change, slurs, social harmony, tenor and politeness conventions
- Taboo topics, social attitudes, slurs and racist and homophobic language
- Taboo topics; sexual consent and young adults
- Take Me Away Please, Lily Chan
- Taking it Further: Exercise 30, p. 41
- Taryn Brumfitt: Australian of the Year: Formal register: features of SAE: social purpose and function
- Task 1: 2014 Exam: Sentences
- Tasks for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Tasks on Animal Farm
- Taylor Walker and Robbie Young: racist slurs, the official and calling it out
- Techniques of Persuasion
- Techniques of Persuasion
- Techniques of Persuasion Home Page
- Tennis Commentary: VCAA Exam: 2011 (Quentin Hull, Di Toro and Burns)
- Tenor and social distance
- Tenor, politeness conventions and positive and negative face needs
- Tenor, purpose, face needs and politeness (Study Design 2024-2028)
- Term 2 Thursday Zoom Text-based Extension Literary Techniques Key Ideas Essay Structure
- Term 3 Classes 2022 (VCE Preparation):
- Testimonials
- Text 10 : Orange Workbook (2020)
- Text 19: Laptops for English exam, p. 24
- Text 29, Walking for a better world, p. 32 (Arguments and Persuasive Language)
- Text 31: An extra dose, Analysing arguments, p. 34
- Text 34, No To a Sugar Tax, p. 42 (“the fat police”)
- Text 40: Teens doing their bit, p. 47
- Text 41: TAFE cuts and Dragging their feet, p. 49.
- Text 45 and Text 46, pp. 52 (Orange Workbook)
- Text 45, On-site pill tests, Mr Leaves, p. 52
- Text 56/57: range of tasks on Leunig’s mummy cartoon, Ms Smith and Dr Johnson
- Text Analysis
- Text Response – Other
- Text support
- Text types
- Text-based exercises
- Texts 8 and 32, (15 and 36), Orange Workbook
- Thank you for your payment
- The “daemon’s” revenge agenda and demands: Is the “daemon” justified?
- The “dinky di””true blue” Aussie type: non-standard “strine” and covert prestige
- The 7 Stages of Grieving (and book pairs- The Longest Memory) : the experience of colour
- The Australian Anthology: writing better sentences : evaluation: online sessions and face to face : writing practice
- The Australian Slanguage (Bill Hornadge) (Methuen)
- The author’s reasons, p. 35 Ex 25 – 27
- The Balcony Scene: Romeo and Juliet
- The burden of the past: Streetcar
- The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Crucible: parallels and conflict and choices
- The Crucible: the spread of conflict (student response)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog
- The Do Better report: Collingwood Football Club (inclusive/exclusive language)
- The English Works Analytical Vocab Builder
- The English Works Anthology Series : How to write a text response essay
- The English Works Grammar Check
- The English Works Reader Blossom Beeby
- The English Works Short Classics Anthology
- The English Works Vocab Builder
- The Face in the Mirror: Blossom Beeby
- The features of an Analytical Commentary (2024-2028 Study Design)
- The Freedom of the City, Brian Friel
- The GARMA Festival: Arnhem Land First Nations identity
- The Golden Age by Joan London
- The Governor-General’s Anzac Day Speech 2024: analysis and evaluation: examples
- The importance of illusions by Jassie Cassidy
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The land is an act of control
- The language of comparison: learn the metalanguage
- The language of conflict: The Lieutenant
- The Language of Persuasion: become an exert
- The Language of Persuasion: become an expert: digital program
- The Lieutenant: model hybrid
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Loman Brand
- The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
- The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood) and Photograph 51 (Anna Ziegler)
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
- The significance of the ordinary carter
- The significance of Walton’s narration
- The stolen Generations: Rose’s story
- The tenor of a text; politeness conventions, inclusive, person-first language; non-discriminatory language; euphemisms, positive face needs
- The Tweed Council: media release; formal language; jargon; linguistic features; negative face needs
- The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis
- The world in which we live shapes us
- The world in which we live shapes who we are
- Thematic essay on Identity
- There will come soft rains by Ray Bradbury
- This Boy’s Life (Tobias Wolff)
- Time Capsule by Margaret Atwood
- Tips for Analytical Commentary
- Tips for short answer: informal texts (written)
- To be accepted as an “Aussie” … Australian identity covert and overt norms and strine
- To belong to a group is essential to identity
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- To Kill a Mockingbird Study Page
- Tone words, context prompts and homework
- Tracks by Robyn Davidson
- Turn to Exercise 10, p. 20-21
- Turn to Exercise 11, pp 42 – 43.
- Turn to Exercise 21, pp 60-61
- Turn to Exercise 22: pp 74-77
- Turn to Exercise 26, p. 65
- Turn to Exercise 26: Plastiki sails across the ocean
- Turn to Exercise 29: Don’t hold our hands (Orange Book)
- Turn to Exercise 3: p. 10
- Turn to page 65: Euthanasia articles (a comparison)
- Turn to Texts 61/62, p. 66-69
- Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
- Two “hybrid” articles for conflict
- Two “hybrid” essays based on Death of a Salesman
- Two creative examples
- Two main paragraphs: Wag the Dog
- Typical comparative essay for SAC
- Typical comparative paragraphs
- Uber and Happy Pills
- Unit 4: Language Variation and Identity
- Unit 4: Language Variation: individual and group identities
- Updated Content
- Using analytical terminology more accurately
- Using analytical terms: language analysis
- Using appropriate metalanguage
- Using metalanguage to advantage
- Using Metalanguage: getting started : practice writing sentences
- VCAA 2004 Exam: Wilsons Promontory Brochure
- VCAA 2012 (VTAC Course application: formal text)
- VCAA 2013 Exam: Spoken/Formal Governor General’s speech
- VCAA 2016: Commentary: Formal /Written (Larissa Ham)
- VCAA Eng Language Exam: 2010 Commentary: Virgin Australia Ticket
- VCAA English Language Exam: 2018 Sir Peter Cosgrove; Australian citizenship ceremony
- VCAA Exam 2014: Formal and informal ABC Broadcast of the Royal Navy
- VCAA: Eng Lang Exam 2012: Commentary Spoken Text
- VCE 2019 Exam Radio Drive Home Segment: Hughsey and Kate (Study Design 2024-2028)
- VCE Argument Analysis and Persuasive Techniques Pack
- VCE Classes Sunday Program
- VCE classes/workshops
- VCE Online Lesson Program: Towards Success in Year 12: advanced reading, writing, thinking and essay-writing skills
- VCE perfection: analytical terminology; grammar; expression; vocab building; arguments, text response, English Language
- VCE Preparation: Homework Update
- Victim blaming language: social hierarchies; sexual harassment
- Views, tone & style, Ex 9
- Views, values and self-concept
- Wag the Dog
- War parallels : The Lieutenant and Every Man in this village
- We change the land
- We grow through conflict: typical paragraphs
- Wednesday VCE Prep Zoom Class, 6.30 pm.
- Weekly Tasks: Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th Feb
- Weekly tasks: building English skills (7-8/scholarship)
- Wei-Lei and Me, by Aditi Gouvernel
- What determines our realities
- What is real is determined by past experiences: Streetcar
- What the textbooks don’t tell you
- Whitehorse Council update: media release; formal language and politeness conventions
- Who is to blame? Romeo and Juliet notes
- Whose Reality
- Whose Reality Years 11 -12
- William Wordsworth Home page
- William Wordsworth poems: John Milton and the London poems
- William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a cloud
- William Wordsworth: overview of key ideas
- William Wordsworth: Resolution and Independence
- William Wordsworth: The Small Celandine
- William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper
- Women of Troy by Euripides
- Word building extension: Exercise 22 p 33
- Wordsworth: using Poetic Language:
- Wordsworth’s poems: the Lucy poems and Goody Blake
- WorkSafe Victoria Advertisement: Commentary VCA 2020 Exam (Study Design 2024-2028)
- World of the Text and Descriptions
- World of the Text: the historical, physical and figurative setting of Year of Wonders
- Writing a commentary
- Writing a Comparative Essay: New Study Design
- Writing a text response essay: notes, tips and sample paras
- Writing a variety of text types
- Writing about the syntax: commentary structure
- Writing an Analytical “Commentary” (Study Design: 2024-2028)
- Writing Better Essays Years 7 – 10
- Writing essays for VCE
- Writing Essays Years 11 -12
- Writing in Context
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- www. Environmental watch . com. Exercise 41; p. 56
- Year 12 Featured classes
- Year 12, Section C, Ava’s post,Toppdale Community Voice, Toppdale cinema
- Year 12: essay-writing workshops
- Year of Wonders quotes
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
- Year of Wonders: sample essays
- YEARS 11-12
- YEARS 7-10
- Yellow, Exercise 9, p. 30
- You can survive and not survive
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- First Nations Identities and Culture and Language
- Thursday Zoom: Text response; personal stories etc; stereotypes; discrimination; challenging misconceptions
- Structure of compare-and-contrast SACs and multiple opinion pieces
- Thursday Zoom So far 18th May
- “Digging deeper” – focus more on author’s intentions/purpose/intended effects and positioning strategies (14th April)
- Argument Analysis Workshop: Friday 14th April
- Typical Feedback from Teachers: Argument Analysis
- Wednesday Zoom Sessions: “Tracking the Argument”
- Wednesday Argument Analysis Zoom
- Thursday Zoom session: Analysing and writing about story-telling features
- Thursday Zoom Session 5.30 16th March
- Thursday Zoom Advanced English Skills; writing styles; text response; personal writing; skills for the New Study Design
- Argument Analysis Wed 6.15 Zoom session
- Lesson 4: 1st March 2023; metalanguage and nuances
- Lesson 3: Wednesday 22 Feb: key argument strategies and analytical sentences
- Lesson 2; 15th February
- 2023 Argument Analysis Classes: summary of key points for improvement.
- Argument Analysis and Persuasive Language: How to write an A+ essay
- Revision for English Language Year 12 Exam
- Wednesday Zoom Lessons: perfect practice
- Informal comments: Tweed Council residents
- The Queen (Stephen Frears) and Ransom by David Malouf: perfect your essay-writing skills and structure
- Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: “book pairs” and essay-writing
- VCE Foundation Classes: How can I improve my English grades?
- English Works Short Classics Anthology: Tables Turned
- Advanced writing and thinking skills; an excellent basis for Year 12
- Dr Jenny’s Summer Writing and Reading Workshop; improve your English: read, write, think.
- Prospective Year 12 Students: what can you do over January to get ahead?
- Formal writing, letters to the editor, argument techniques; grammar and new words
- Year 12 VCAA exam: Section C: Argument and persuasive language: the difference between C+ and A+
- Your English Language Year 12 exam: How to write a 45-minute analytical commentary
- Commentaries for English Language: how to write an analytical commentary in 45 minutes (exam preparation)
- Lesson 2nd September
- Let’s improve your English: understand the building blocks of a sentence; tune into persuasive, story-telling and poetic techniques; study words and their extra meanings; tone and texture.
- Aim for sophistication; depth of analysis; polished expression; efficient structure
- VCE Foundation classes: a sound basis: Sunday classes
- VCE Foundation: the language of comparison; compare-and-contrast techniques
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- VCE Foundation and improvement: class times
- Sexist language; context; audience; who speaks and to whom and in what context?
- VCE Foundation: expression, grammar, words
- VCE Foundation, argument analysis and English Language
- VCE Foundation: quotes, analysis, impact, positioning intentions etc.
- VCE Foundation: argument analysis: learn the lingo
- VCE foundation: this week’s tasks
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- VCE foundation: stay in touch with “formal” language
- Reading Gwen Harwood’s “The Glass Jar”: light and shade; metaphors, rhythm, lexical patterning
- Argument Analysis: how can I improve? Your questions!
- How to write an Analytical Commentary
- From Year 11 to Year 12 argument analysis
- Word a day; word choices and meanings; narrative context “Like a House on Fire” by Cate Kennedy
- Creative writing: think about your word choices and sentence styles
- Don Watson and Watsonia (2020)
- 2020 Section C – Argument and persuasive language: the farmer’s speech to members of the community and the Byways Shire Council
- An exam tip for Argument and Persuasive/Language Analysis
- A word a day: from the letters page and opinion-based arguments
- A word a day continues … for the holiday period
- A “word a day” page: words, sentences, expressions
- Essay-writing resources for your year level in one workbook
- Book pairs, Year 12
- Arguments and Persuasive Language: analysing and presenting opinion-based texts
- Year 12 Resources: essay plans, text analysis; book pairs: revision; checklists; “how techniques”
- A “word a day” page: words, sentences, expressions, quotes, tone and style
- Writing a comparative-style essay: texts and films (“book pairs”)
- Macbeth: a study in power (by Dr Jennifer Minter)
- Term 3 VCE Lessons: improving sophistication (quotes and analysis), expression, vocabulary and grammatical control
- A “word a day” page
- Text response work for class (28th June : Sunday 10.30)
- Setting a fast pace and a high standard! Well done to all! Advanced essay-writing; scholarship tasks and grammar
- How can I improve my Argument Analysis (comparison)
- Clear writing: use nominals to achieve precision and lexical density
- How can I improve my text response essay?
- Clear writing: Subject and Verb (finite and non-finite verbs/clauses)
- Improving our analysis: towards analytical depth and precision
- How can I improve my persuasive essays?
- Working your analytical terms for greater precision
- VCAA VCE English Exam: Sample response for 2018: Jonty Jenkins reviews Calmer Coffee
- VCAA VCE English Exam: Section C: Sample response (“A better, faster, shopping experience”)
- The path towards analysis: be careful of summarising (Dr Jenny’s Zoom classes)
- Quoting with aplomb (Dr Jenny’s Zoom classes)
- Clear writing: Dr Jenny’s Zoom classes
- Year 9 and 10 (VCE Preparation) class: Dr Jenny’s zoom sessions
- Zoom Classes: zooming in so far: arguments, opinions, written expression, metalanguage and essay structure
- How can I improve my persuasive essays?
- Some tips for your essays on Rear Window (Dr Jenny’s Zoom lessons)
- (VCE) Argument analysis: some more tips from Dr Jenny
- Rear Window – voyeurism and teasing out concepts
- Improve your written analysis/expression by using analytical terms, narrative devices and polished quoting.
- Using metalanguage to advantage: the language of comparison
- (VCE) A comparative-style argument/language analysis VCE SAC and exam
- (VCE) Arguments and Persuasive Language: Keeping up-to-date and ahead (Dr Jenny)
- (VCE) 2020 Tips for Argument Analysis
- Compare: Texts 8 and 32: Put police body-cams under a proper lens (p. 36)
- Arguments and Persuasive Language/Analysis: tips for comparative-style analysis
- Tips for writing Analytical Commentaries: VCE English Language
- A spoken conversation (transcript) (2005 Exam)
- (Year 8 to VCE) Opinion texts: Arguments, Techniques and Persuasive Language