Extension English 1: Literary Worlds

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with the Extension English 1 Common Module Literary Worlds, as presented at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in associated with Charles Sturt University.

This is the PPT on Literary Worlds.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT.

Practice makes perfect!

Textual Conversations: The Tempest & Hag-Seed

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with the Module B: Textual Conversations Tempest / Hag-Seed option. 

 

This was initially presented in 2019 at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in association with Charles Sturt University. The versions linked here have been UPDATED to reflect what was presented for the Aurora College HSC Study Seminars in 2022.

This is the PPT on The Tempest / Hag-Seed.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT.
And here are some additional resources on these two texts:

• An annotated version of The Tempest.
• Annotations from Hag-Seed.

Happy textual conversing!

Craft of Writing Resources

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with Module C: Craft of Writing, as presented at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in association with Charles Sturt University.

This is the PPT on The Craft of Writing.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT. 

And here are some additional resources on The Craft of Writing:

• An overview of Standard English Craft of Writing texts
• An overview of Advanced English Craft of Writing texts

And mini-lessons on writing craft:

• Asyndeton
• Parentheses & Tricolon
• Hyperbaton
• Personification & Semicolon
• Modality, Pathetic Fallacy, & Iambic Pentameter
• Brachyology, Shared Lines, & Congery
• Irony & Symbolism

Get writing!

On Grief

Here's a poem I wrote today after staying in the Glasshouse Mountains for the last two nights.

On Grief

Gecko-clicks drag me away
from my novel, a tropical Chinese water drip
pressed flat against glass eardrums
and punctuating the warm winter night
without tone.

Without compass, I search for
structure to the glottal soundtrack of the evening;
syncopated against my pulse,
defiant and small and godforsaken,
and sincere.

Aural memory echoes soft
on the first birthday of my erstwhile sleeping daughter.
The pulsing ultrasound roar
a third percussive layer out of time.
Once even, now erratic.

Her silent face magenta-still.
Beyond my grasp.
The gecko-clicks stop as I move towards them, and
their absence becomes
another burden.