English
This page includes links to helpful sites which teach English skills, texts you might be studying in class and critical commentaries and essays to help you think about your texts in the way that makes you sound clever in an English classroom. It also includes several websites set up by Ms Carmyn to help you with Area of Study and other units that include related texts. It you need related texts on a different topic, email her here.
Academic Journals
The DEC pays for a subscription to Auslit. This is a fabulous database with the full text of many Australian novels, stories and poems, as well as critical commentaries on Australian Literature. Get the passwords from Ms Carmyn or your English teacher.
More databases can be found at yopur local library. Their databases include critical commentaries such as Bloom's Literary Reference Online and the Literary Reference Center, as well as review sites such as Magpies, NoveList and Spine Out, and online classrooms with ebooks and activities (Tumblebooks and Ziptales). You will need a library membership number/password to access these sites from school or home.
Academic Journals
The DEC pays for a subscription to Auslit. This is a fabulous database with the full text of many Australian novels, stories and poems, as well as critical commentaries on Australian Literature. Get the passwords from Ms Carmyn or your English teacher.
More databases can be found at yopur local library. Their databases include critical commentaries such as Bloom's Literary Reference Online and the Literary Reference Center, as well as review sites such as Magpies, NoveList and Spine Out, and online classrooms with ebooks and activities (Tumblebooks and Ziptales). You will need a library membership number/password to access these sites from school or home.
Discovery
The Discovery Website is under construction here [aghsdiscovery.weebly.com]. Keep checking back as new links and related texts will be added every few weeks.
Anna Mc Hugh has some really good hints about all sorts of texts and writing skills on her Discovery blog [http://discoveryhsc.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/writing-essays-for-discovery-analysis.html] You should also have a look at Trinity Grammar's discovery website [http://trinity.nsw.libguides.com/discovery] |
Distinctively visual
Look at our website [http://distinctivelyvisual.weebly.com/]. Let me know what you want me to add.
Other useful sites from other schools include
Plumpton [http://plumptonhenrylawson.weebly.com/related-texts.html]
EnglishRoom 11 [http://www.englishroom11.com/standard-module-a-distinctively-visual-the-shoe-horn-sonata.html]
Other useful sites from other schools include
Plumpton [http://plumptonhenrylawson.weebly.com/related-texts.html]
EnglishRoom 11 [http://www.englishroom11.com/standard-module-a-distinctively-visual-the-shoe-horn-sonata.html]
Romanticism
Romantic poetry (and criticism of Romantic poets) can be found at NF 821.7. For general introductions to Romanticism look at NF 820.9; for novels look in NF 828; and a feminist perspective can be found in 809.892. There are also a couple of books about romanticism from a philosophical perspective in NF 141.
One of the best sites about your Extension course is The Last Romantics [http://lastromantics.weebly.com/]. Sample responses to the 2010 paper are discussed at ARC [http://arc2.bos.nsw.edu.au/view/byarea/course/15160/question/3196]. The English Faculty of the Univestity of California, Santas Barbara has an wonderful portal to Romantic literature [http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750] |
Into the World
I have started making a website with related texts for tom brennan. You can find this here [http://exploringtransitions.weebly.com/].
Change
This website was designed to teach you how to write good paragraphs and good essays [http://fundamentalsofenglish.weebly.com/]. If you are in year 11 and have trouble with essay writing, it woulod be good to use this website as a tutorial service. Give your activities to your English or fundamentals of English teacher to mark, or emails them to Ms Carmyn using the "Ask a Question" page at the end of the site.
Belonging
The belonging website [http://aghsbelonging.weebly.com/index.html] is designed for HSC English students. It gives you to access links to sites about your set text and recommends many different types of related texts. Read through the annotations (summaries of each text) to get ideas about the different things you can discuss in an essay about belonging. It also includes hints for short answer questions and stimulus to start you off with creative writing.
You might also look at the essay plans on this belonging page [http://belongingareaofstudy.blogspot.com.au/] and this page [http://www.hscdiscovery.com.au/#!belonging-concept-statements/c1yiz] has a list of theses for your belonging essay.
You might also look at the essay plans on this belonging page [http://belongingareaofstudy.blogspot.com.au/] and this page [http://www.hscdiscovery.com.au/#!belonging-concept-statements/c1yiz] has a list of theses for your belonging essay.
Persuasive Language
What words should you use in every persuasive task? This blog identifies the five most persuasive words in the English language and explains why they work. [http://tinyurl.com/a7cur32]
Exam tips
http://www.mq.edu.au/blogs/getsirius/2011/10/27/how-to-annihilate-your-hsc-extension-1-english-exam/