I put this activity together for Standard English students studying the Global Village elective for Module C, but it could also be useful for the Extension elective: Navigating the Global. Ideally, students would do this activity in small groups, moving between quotes and sharing ideas, but it can be done as a revision activity by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quotes’
Global Village Cafe Tables
Posted in HSC English, tagged Extension 1, global village, HSC, navigating the global, quotes, Standard on September 16, 2011 | 2 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 [...]
Storytelling vs. Lying
Posted in Thinking, tagged creative writing, fiction, Odyssey, Preliminary, quotes, thinking, Virginia Woolf on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Storytelling is a socially acceptable form of lying in which the author (liar) and the reader collude in order to create a safe place for the story (or lie) to flourish. The reader, although aware of the tale’s fiction, willingly participates in its propagation, often retelling it to other willing marks. According to Virginia Woolf’s [...]
