Every week you are required to contribute 250-300 words to the online discussion. I will be following your progress. You will be required to post at least three responses on The Catcher in the Rye. Choose one topic from the … Continue reading
Introducing the Novel Intro slides (for reading use pdf, for watching videos, right-mouse-click and download .mp4) EtherPads: What’s missing from the 1950s? also for notes & questions Stixy board for grouping what Holden Likes & Hates Mr. March’s study guide Link to … Continue reading
Looking Closer at the Film The following activities and links support your understanding of the film Rebel Without a Cause. Use them in class and access this site and OPLS to support online learning (find out how to register?). Go to … Continue reading
Challenge: Given a text, write a deep interpretive thesis inspired by an artist’s work. (If you can do this, do it now. Struggle. Contemplate. Draft. Re-write. Do it now.) Here’s the text: an image from Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing … Continue reading
1. READ the writing task question (Qu. 6) at the bottom of this post. 2. SKIM read the following articles: – Rethinking the American Dream, April 2009, By David Kamp: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/04/american-dream200904 – Pres. Barack Obama’s November 7, 2007 speech on the … Continue reading
Click below. Yr 11 Ext 1 #1 2012 Please watch this video clip: And some useful websites. Feel free to quote or paraphrase these resources but make sure you reference them in your essay with a footnote and in your bibliography. Otherwise you are … Continue reading
Hi Year 11 students reading Othello. I was re-acquainting myself with Othello in anticipation of helping a certain, quite tall Year 11 student, and came across this podcast that I thought you might enjoy and find useful. You can play … Continue reading
The notification for your visual representation task on poetry can be downloaded using the link below. Yr11_StAdv_#3_2011
Year 11 students preparing for Assessment Task #2 who would like some summaries and useful Catcher quotes at their fingertips might like to look at one of the available apps. Android phone users can purchase an app at http://www.appbrain.com/app/catcher-in-the-rye-study-guide/com.litcharts.thecatcherintherye while iphone, … Continue reading
Yr 11 StAdv _2 2011
