Author Archives: Mr B Toohey

The blog of a refugee

14 Tuesday Jun 2016

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I came across this a little while ago, long after it was written. After looking at social justice issues, today I’d like you to spend much of the lesson reading the blog of a young woman from Baghdad.

In the last 15 min or so, write me an email with your thoughts – so you might like to take a couple of notes, or copy/paste any quotes etc (and date of post) that you find interesting, perhaps different to your perception of living in a war zone, or living in the Middle East, or on becoming a refugee. I was intrigued by Riverbend, I hope you find her story interesting.

Start with her first posts (scroll down to the bottom and work your way up)

August 2003

Read from at least one post from 2004, 2005, 2006 (choose from the archive on the right)

Then from her last few posts in 2007

April, September, October

And her final post from 2013

 

Good luck with exams, see you next semester for Ethics 🙂

Exam Revision

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Exam is 90 minutes: an essay on one of the class texts and questions on a given text.

Students will have a choice of writing on EITHER Romeo and Juliet OR Animal Farm. Note that there will be other novels offered, done by other classes. Don’t answer them! Write only ONE essay.

Students will also have the option of bringing in a cheat sheet.

  • A4
  • Single sided
  • Hand written
  • Quotations and dot points
  • They CANNOT have paragraphs addressing key themes already written

Students should allow 60 minutes for the essay and 30 minutes to work on a critical reading.

HINTS:

  • some of the questions offered are likely to be similar to what you have answered in the assessment task
  • they are likely to be on key themes
    • Romeo & Juliet: love, fate, relationships (recall that we spent a bit of time on ‘star cross’d lovers’…)
    • Animal Farm as an allegory for power and organisation within society, and the increasing corruption of the ruling class
  • you may choose to have a range of events, key details and quotations from both texts, or concentrate on one and hope to get a favourable question.

Issues Task Submission

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Hi guys

Please submit Issues Task through Turnitin before the end of Wednesday’s lesson – you have already enrolled in the class from the first task, but info is here just in case:

Turnitin website: http://turnitin.com/en_us/home

Class ID: 12386553

Password: qwerty

Also, please email to me as a back-up.

A reminder to check the formatting requirements for a ‘Report’ outlined on the task sheet, and to please look after an old man’s eyes:

  • 12 point basic font (Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman preferred)
  • 1.5 or 2.0 spacing
  • Make sure your name is on it!!

Thanks, BT

Aboriginal Land Rights

08 Wednesday Jun 2016

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40 word summaries of:

  • Woodward Royal Commission
  • Claiming / Mining
  • Mabo
  • Native Title / Wik / 10 Point Plan

Woodward Royal Commission (p160)

Woodward Royal Commission set up by Whitlam to see how land rights could be set up. Ideals were for providing opportunity, keeping spiritual connection and justice for Aboriginal people who had lost land. Recommendations were to provide compensation, and ways of continuing and strengthening Aboriginal connection with tribal lands. Bill was amended after Dismissal and watered down to suit mining and pastoral businesses.

Romeo & Juliet Assessment Task

07 Tuesday Jun 2016

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OK, so I put it on IMMI trying to be good, but I keep forgetting I put it there so I will put it here too… 🙂

Task Sheet Romeo and Juliet Essay

Students will answer the question in critical essay form : “How does Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic interpretation change or reinforce the key ideas and themes of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ? Reference must be made to specific scenes/episodes in the narrative. (1000 words)

Due Friday 17 June – email it to me by 4:00pm please 🙂

Romeo & Juliet – Crime File

24 Tuesday May 2016

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When you are done reading the play, open Verona Crime File and over the next few lessons, complete the task:

TASK :

  1. Consider the proclamations, petitions and summation by the Prince and his subjects that appear above.
  2. Write a final VERDICT, as Verona’s ruler, that explains who and what it has been that has torn your community apart. Be even-handed and just. Prepare it so it might be read in the market square for everyone’s edification.