Summarising
As a high school teacher, I have conducted a range of study skills workshops to senior students. As a casual tutor for Student Services at the University of Wollongong, I […]
Creative Writing – images as stimulus
Images can be an effective starting point when creating a story. Especially when writing as a practice for Preliminary exams or the HSC. This photograph of Cook’s cottage in Melbourne […]
The Crucible – belonging essay response
When writing a response to an exam question, the introduction and conclusion are important in showing the marker that you understand the key concepts and texts. Remember to address the question […]
Successful Oral Presentations
There are many ideas on how to achieve good marks for an oral presentation: here are mine Know your audience and purpose – this will inform your language choice and […]
Wish You Well – personal journey promoting a positive outlook
Bernard Fanning’s song Wish You Well was very well received and the accompanying music video, directed by Damon Escott and Stephen Lance was awarded Best Music Video in 2006. Many aspects of […]
Henry Lawson’s Distinctively Visual Stories
My current Year 12 class has been collaborating on an essay response to a previous HSC question for Standard Module A: Experience through Language – Distinctively Visual. We have been […]
Belonging – related text for Rainbow’s End
The song, My Island Home, was written by Neil Murray in 1985 and recorded in 1986. According to Wikipedia, Neil had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for […]
Notetaking from a Text
There are many different ways to take effective notes from texts. The table format I highly recommend allows less able students to record information from a text, class discussion or […]
Django Unchained – a memorable western
Certainly a movie worth seeing on the large screen! Tarantino has effectively taken me back to my youth and the great spaghetti westerns – full of humour, brutality and passion. […]
Streets of Your Town – an Australian Vision by The Go-Betweens
This striking song and music video provides a haunting vision of Australia. It provides a useful related text for the ESL Module A: Experience through Language – Elective 2 Australian […]
Multimodal Me 