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2023 Summer Break excerpts

Some extra reading over the break. Please let me know which sessions you want to attend as I’ll target the excerpts to your school tasks. You don’t need to write them all up – choose those that are most closely linked to your school tasks.

We’ll do a poem; read a ‘critical analysis” and work into a close passage/discussion

Poems: (poetic devices and key ideas)

  • Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
  • WB Yeats: “Wild Swans at Coole”
  • My People Oodgeroo
  • Sylvia Plath,“Morning Song”

Literary Excerpts: (close passage analysis, language features and recounts/memoirs/journeys)

  • Tim Winton: The Boy behind the curtain
  • Maxine Clarke, The Hate Race, p. 192. See Text Excerpt Visit to Principal’s office
  • Family Law, Benjamin Law
  • Larry Watson: Montana 1948

The Age Editorials (Focus on Argument/to argue)

  • GPs much change their business model to treat chronic disease, 5/12/22
  • Respectful Voice should be welcomed, 4/12/22
  • See work on Extension Activities Summary Page

Some excerpts

Visit-to-principals-office-001-1The Hate Race
winton-002Tim Winton The boy behind the curtain
  1. Link to Year 11 Study Design 2023:
  2. Link to Literature
  3. Sample excerpts
  4. Crafting and Writing Styles

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