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Sentences and variations – creative writing

March 31, 2022by multimodalme Leave a comment

Using an image stimulus from Robert Gonsalves, students explored sentence variations based on a writing exercise from the ETA publication Creative Horizons (2019) edited by Mel Dixon. Students worked in […]

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Stream of Consciousness Narration

February 28, 2022by multimodalme Leave a comment

In a recent double period creative writing lesson, my Year 12 English Advanced class wrote in a stream of consciousness style. This was part of their Module A: Textual Conversations […]

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Fragments and Moments – not writing the novel

January 31, 2022by multimodalme Leave a comment

On the eve of a second year of schooling in a covid environment, I cling to the long project – my work in progress – of not writing. My year […]

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A Personal and Persuasive Letter – writing and marking

November 30, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

As my first year back teaching draws to a close, it’s been a pleasure to re-visit this end of year writing unit designed to consolidate student writing skills. Our Country […]

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Writing a Discursive River

October 30, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

How to strengthen your identity as a writer? Consider this writing exercise that is a combination of an old favourite, and the use of two quotes from an Into English […]

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Re-imagining The Lost Thing as a Digital Story

October 1, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

Since Term 2, I have been researching and writing a teaching resource on the work of Shaun Tan (scheduled to be released on the NSW DoE site in 2022) with […]

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Lockdown Lessons for Westbury’s ‘Dapto dressing up’

August 31, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

Since school shifted from Level 2 to full lockdown two weeks ago, my Year 10 class began a new uint of work: Conceptual Study of Poetry. Deb Westbury was an […]

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Exploring Perspectives in The Taming of the Shrew

July 31, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

While studying Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew with my Year 11 Advanced class, we explored different perspectives of the lead roles: Petruchio and Katherina. Students readily identify the inherent […]

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Character Development through Iconic Landmarks

June 29, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

In exploration of Paris for Year 11 Narratives that Shape our World we considered how this exotic city is represented in two texts: Ernest Hemingway’s memoir A Movable Feast, and […]

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Ekphrastic Poetry – responding to images

May 31, 2021by multimodalme Leave a comment

As part of the Year 9 unit on Imagining the World of Shaun Tan, and as preparation for NAPLAN, I introduced the form of ekphrastic poetry as one way to […]

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