How to fast-track your English — both your written and thinking skills
- We need to develop the language skills to write with analytical precision. This reflects higher order thinking skills.
- We need to hone our ability to write succinctly and precisely, and avoid unnecessary, wordy and superfluous explanations.
- These skills are critical for topic sentences (specific link to prompt) and the evidence we provide to support our statements.
- You will hone these skills through extra reading tasks and practice.
- To purchase your copy: See An Australian Anthology
Extension activities and exercise tasks
Chapter 1: First Nations People
Poems of the Dreamtime, See Dreamtime, p. 4
See Rose’s story: stolen generations
Chapter 2: Pioneering landscapes: romancing the bush
- Poems by A B Paterson, p. 14
- My Country by Dorothea Mackellar, p. 18
- The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson, p. 20
- The Union Buries its Dead by Henry Lawson, p. 25
Chapter 3: Multicultural melting pot
- “Chinese Dancing, Bendigo Style” by Joo-Inn Chew p. 48
- “Perfect Chinese Children” by Vanessa Woods, p. 50
- Baked Beans and Burnt Toast by Jacqui Larkin, p. 55
- The Face in the Mirror by Blossom Beeby (2008), p. 59
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, by Najaf Mazari, p. 60
- The Happiest Refugee, by Anh Do, p. 66
Chapter 4: Modern metamorphosis
Selected Epistles by Olivia Muscat, p. 77