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Monday, August 30, 2021

Stage 6 Writing Craft 1: Reading to Write

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I'm not teaching Stage 6 English in any form this year. Since I moved schools I've switched over to History for a bit, which has bee...
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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Craft of Writing: Motif, Intertextuality, and Synaesthesia

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Hi there! Below you will find three Craft of Writing mini-lessons that support students in practising their writing craft all year-round. Yo...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Literary Canon: What's In It?

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If you're feeling brave, feel free to look up any Twitter debate on 'The Canon'. It's an increasingly partisan debate and......
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Peace Train Comprehension - Remote Learning, 2021

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Hello fellow NSW teachers, looks like we're back in lockdown and steering the remote learning train once again! What can one say? Here...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Using Schemas with Related Texts

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The drive for senior NSW students to locate and select their own related texts has diminished somewhat since the days of Belonging and Disco...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Women on the Australian Home Front in WW1

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Part of the NSW Stage 5 History syllabus (the 'Australians at War' study) includes a dot point highlighting the role of women in WWI...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Conversations about Hag-Seed

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Epigraphs The Advanced English Textual Conversations  module provides an option to study the pairing of Shakespeare's  The Tempest  and ...
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