Related Material for Module C: True History of the Kelly Gang

There are, as I have said in previous posts, a couple of different ways to approach the selection of related material for Module C. This is true also for Peter Carey’s The True History of the Kelly Gang (which, by the way, I think is quite a difficult text) in the History and Memory elective. [...]

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Aspects of Belonging

The ETA has very helpfully put together a list of aspects of belonging. The list includes: belonging through place belonging through kinship belonging through shared experience belonging through shared culture belonging through global networks belonging through textual engagement To this list my students added belonging through shared purpose, as this helped them to include many [...]

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What Belonging means to me

Belonging is the new HSC Area of Study but it’s more than that, it’s a fundamental human need. I tend to conceptualize belonging in the negative, to think of the outsider, of the person who doesn’t belong. I always identified with those characters in books, with Erika Yurken in Hating Alison Ashley, with Elspeth in [...]

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Judith Wright

Last week year 9 submitted their essays on the poetry of Judith Wright and its perspectives on the relationship between the Australian people and the Australian landscape. Here are some of the points we came up with in class: Bora Ring a bora ring is an Aboriginal dancing circle, the one in the poem has [...]

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