Books I love
Just a quickie to post about 2 books I’ve come across that I’ll definitely be dipping into for English classes. They’re both just a bit of fun, but can be used to scaffold some great activities. The first is Twitterature. I may have spoken about it before. I’ve had this one for a while, and [...]
Some useful/interesting resources
I’m paddling to keep my head above water at the moment, but wanted to quickly log two things I came across tonight. First is the Australian Poetry Library. It has thousands of poems which are free to view, but have a small copyright fee if you want to print them out. It’s a win/win situation [...]
Essay: Using popular culture to teach the Bible
The Bible is a difficult text for anyone to study and interpret, particularly high school students. The text is very removed from their everyday lives and experience, having been written in and about a very different time and place to modern Australia. A superficial view and understanding of the Bible leaves students struggling to find [...]
Women’s suffrage in Oz – some brief notes
The week we looked at suffrage, we really focused on the white, middle class woman, so by the time I got around to posting my discussion post, everything had been said, so I went in search of something a bit different. **** I thought I’d look into sufferage for EVERYONE a bit more. I didn’t [...]
Stolen Generations – Personal Stories
This is a lesson plan that I’m pretty proud of, will probably use it (after tweaking of course) for the upcoming lesson plan submission assessment. I taught this class 1.5 weeks ago now, and in hindsight, I still like the lesson and am happy with how it all went. We had a last minute room [...]