I am teaching Rear Window for the last time this year due to the change in the study design. While working through the detailed breakdown I thought I would be extra nostalgic and do my weekly review on it too.
http://melbournereviewofbooks.com/school-finds-rear-window/
Don’t forget to check out the rest of the reviews at The Melbourne Review of Books. One of the recent entries was on Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle which is a cracking piece of Literature.
For my most recent review I explored the first text I taught as a Literature text. It goes some way to explain why I am the way I am perhaps so if you feel like unravelling this enigma that is I check it out.
http://melbournereviewofbooks.com/school-finds-pleasantville-by-gary-ross/
Here is the unit material for Death of A Salesman. There are two main files. The first contains the unit outline and main instructions for the outcome and all classes and homework. The second contains resources that will be referred to in class and in your homework tasks. Please download both and save them into your iBooks.
YR12 ENG T2 Unit 3 Outcome 2 DOAS Booklet 2015
You may also want to review the PowerPoint overview of the play. Death of a Salesman introductory slideshow
I might have made you study it. Do you want to know what I really think of it?
Check out my third review at the Melbourne Review of Books. While there have a browse and you might find another interesting read to squeeze in between the study and revision.
http://melbournereviewofbooks.com/school-finds-cloudstreet-by-tim-winton/
Please download the files below for the Rear Window Unit. I will provide you with a large A3 version of the course work but you will need a copy at home as well for the discussion tasks. There is also a section of a text book that you will need access to for the first few lessons and homework tasks. Download this and store it in your iBooks folder as it is a large file.
Insight Text Book Extract – Film
As we look at each section of the film I will post a podcast dealing with this material. The podcasts are not necessarily from this year’s class so please consider this when comparing your notes to those of your classmates. I may have made slightly different observations from year to year.
Part 1
Part 2 (sorry this isn’t the one I recorded in class this year – my iPad ran out of space 11 minutes into class and didn’t tell me it had stopped recording! This version requires you to have the DVD playing along with the narration.)
Part 3 – this is the recording from our own class this year:
Before the SAC we will undertake a practice SAC. While the SAC is two periods long (one planning session with access to your film notes and one writing session with access to your planning notes) the practice session is only one period. We will spend a session prior to this going over the task and looking at breaking down a prompt and planning a response. The handout below will be given to you in this session and worked through along with the sample response below. You don’t need to download it prior but if you are at all struggling with the discussion tasks looking ahead to the SAC may help you see how it all fits together.
Here is my next review for Melbourne Review of Books, a blog I recently began writing for. I am currently working through a series of reviews that focus on texts I have taught for some time and only really discovered through teaching.
http://melbournereviewofbooks.com/school-finds-in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/
If you like it leave a comment or share it with others via social media. (That wasn’t at all a sad request). Also check out the other reviews on the site – there is a fairly eclectic mix of books reviewed and even a cereal box makes the cut. You never know you may find something to keep you busy between study and homework.
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