UL2P

Hmmm … got some “issues”? You bet – mainly around finance (bet you’re all really fascinated by all that!); and fires, at the moment.
You’ll be looking for a focus for your Persuasive Oral Presentation, and a pretty good one was covered by Mediawatch on Monday, Feb 16th. You can see the report (for now) on [...]

Context: conflicting reports!

You may well be asking, “How can my little (relatively) conflict-free existence posssibly offer anything that might generate something of worth (academic or anyotherwise) by comparison with the experiences of Arch Flanagan? Or of people in Vietnam? Or Bali? Or of those people who shopped in Omagh’s main street in 1998?”
Good question! The “short answer” [...]

Reading for context

As if you didn’t have enough on your plates! I have a suggestion that IS extra work, but which could be a bit of time-out, as well as adding something to your understanding of “The Kite Runner” AND which you might be able to use in the Encountering Conflict context study (or some of the [...]

English texts for 2010

Current Year 12 students probably won’t care much (unless you’re thinking of repeating!) but teachers might be interested to know that the 2010 text list is now online at the VCAA site. Last year for Citizen Kane this year (boo!), first year for On the Waterfront (I’m not sure how I feel about that!)

Crucible Resource (from Shmoop)

Here at the EnglishBook we don’t really tend to highly endorse the study guides that are available on single texts, especially those of the generic USA variety designed to help college kids with their SATs or something.
But, they play a part, and can be useful at times, when you’re checking your knowledge, refreshing your understanding [...]