What is the outcome of the rebellion? Is it ‘successful’?

Here are the questions for May 20, 2008

Does rebellion have to be shocking?

What is freedom?

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is…”

Aw, chrissakes, why don’t I just tell you myself!

Everyone seems to have an opinion about what’s wrong with me. My family, people at school, hell, even the goddamn cleaning lady probably has an opinion if anybody’d ask her. So you might as well join the crowd. You might as well add your comment on what you think is wrong with good ol’ Holden Caulfield, esq.

Any if you’re really keen as a whip, I’ll even invite you to be my friend. Yeah, friends, what a lot of good those can be…

Download the scaffold sheet for the additional texts.

Year 11 English students are invited to join the new version of the Oxley Personal Learning Environment (OPLE). This is an online network that is both similar to, and different from, MySpace. It is similar in that members…

• have their own pages,
• can upload images, files, movies, etc.,
• join discussions and groups,
• and link to friends.

It is different from MySpace / Facebook / Beebo / etc. in that on OPLE, you don’t do dopey things. Got it? Use it to do cool learning in a digital environment, not silly stuff you can do outside of school.

Click this link to join.

Please download this Powerpoint presentation to learn about this unit.