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Insight Issues
This popular resource is still widely used to build studentsa knowledge and skills in this most demanding area of English study a analysing media texts. It covers how the media reports and positions the reader, tackles issues and highlights the use of persuasive techniques. Ideal to prepare Year 10 students for senior years.
Persuasive Language in Media Texts
This is a practical handbook for English students and teachers in Years 10-12 that builds skills and knowledge for analysis of: issues; persuasive language techniques (written and oral); persuasive images; points of view. It is packed with all types of media texts with activities and sample student responses. This fabulous resource tutors the student through this most demanding area of their English studies.
Romeo and Juliet
"An abridged version of William Shakespeare's play, Romeo & Juliet, with discussion questions, history and language points as teaching guide."--Provided by publisher.
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
This moving and poignant work gives the reader a rare insight into the contented ‘milk and honey’ life of a simple Afghan family before the civil war ripped their country apart. The lives and centuries-old livelihood of farmers, craftsmen and small business owners were destroyed in just weeks and months. As a member of the Hazara tribe, hated and targeted by the Taliban, Najaf was forced to flee the brutal attacks on his people when the Northern Alliance fell to the advancing Taliban insurgents. His flight to Pakistan, from there to Indonesia, then by boat to Australia, ends with incarceration in Woomera, where the story begins. From the compelling opening sentence to the beautiful final chapter, Najaf’s integrity, his extraordinary optimism and his generosity of spirit will win the hearts and minds of all readers.
With Just One Suitcase
This epic book, spanning two continents, recounts the story of three generations of two families whose lives unexpectedly intersect in their adopted country. Beautifully capturing the loss faced when war dislocates families, it also tells of the struggles and challenges of starting anew and adapting to a different way of life. With Just One Suitcase serves as a tribute to the courage and resilience of two men who bear the scars of war and face adversity without surrendering their optimism for the future. “Cheryl Koenig is to be congratulated. She has written a masterpiece. With great skill Cheryl has written an immensely readable, gripping biog documenting daily life in a crazed world. The...
Peter Goldsworthy's Maestro
Context and background - Genre style and structure - Section analysis - Characters and relationships - Themes and issues - Sample questions - Exam strategies.
Literature for Senior Students
A high quality, comprehensive and practical resource for the study of literature in the senior years, including a handbook of literary terms in tables. Includes a summary of the main genres, identifies key features and main conventions for the novel, short story, drama, poetry, memoir and film. This highly relevant resource for literary studies is booklisted and classlisted nationally.
The Merchant of Venice
Even the most resolutely disengaged students can finally 'discover' and thrill to the rhythms and passions of Shakespeare's plays! Award-winning teachers and Shakespearean scholars have extensively trialled their approach to teaching Shakespeare's plays in the classroom, and this series is the result! The plays in this series are becoming increasingly popular for student resources in schools as English and Drama teachers discover their fabulous teaching and learning qualities.
Othello
Even the most resolutely disengaged students can finally 'discover' and thrill to the rhythms and passions of Shakespeare's plays! Award-winning teachers and Shakespearean scholars have extensively trialled their approach to teaching Shakespeare's plays in the classroom, and this series is the result! The plays in this series are becoming increasingly popular for student resources in schools as English and Drama teachers discover their fabulous teaching and learning qualities.
School Days of a Methodist Lady
This book is about a girl, a school and a family in Australia in the 1950s and 60s… A deeply personal account of teenage struggles with parental and sibling relationships and with school discipline, study demands, tough living conditions and rigorous religious education. Jill’s daily life as a school boarder, her rebellions, emotional highs and lows, and encounters with Dr Wood, MLC’s charismatic principal and pastor, are described with honesty, hilarity and sharp critical insight.
