The Area of Study Response, also known as Section 3 of Paper 1, is a particularly strange type of essay. In it, you are asked to synthesise ideas from a range of texts with your own personal response, addressing a specific question or statement, under an umbrella concept: Belonging. It’s not an easy thing to [...]
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Tips for Writing the AoS Response
Posted in HSC English, tagged AoS, Area of Study, assessment, belonging, Emily Dickinson, essay, exams, James Joyce, language, Literature, teaching on December 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Fun with Words
Posted in Random, Reading, tagged English literature, fun, language, quotes, Shakespeare, teaching, vocabulary, wordle on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A colleague of mine recently mentioned that, in the race to meet a billion outcomes, we had perhaps lost some of our love of and fun with language. One of my teaching resolutions for 2009 is to spend more time on activities that inspire a love of our crazy language. Here’s an interesting start: This [...]
What Belonging means to me
Posted in HSC English, Thinking, tagged AoS, Area of Study, Australian literature, belonging, Jane Austen, journal, language, quotes on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
