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25.01.2022 NAPLAN encourages and perpetuates outdated understandings of quality writing. I've been surprising teachers for years: too many adjectives makes for poor writing. Use adjectives sparingly and focus on building precise nouns and verbs. And then I get onto why dialogue tags SHOULD be 'said' and never include an adverb. https://theconversation.com/too-many-adjectives-not-enough-

24.01.2022 Beautiful poem by a young astrophysicist facing death - popped up on my screen just now from Brain Pickings. Perfect for senior students https://www.brainpickings.org//antidotes-to-fear-of-death/

22.01.2022 I love this resource - and if you subscribe a poem with teaching ideas arrives in your inbox. https://poets.org/teach-poem

21.01.2022 "Alcott pointed to the fact that when he was growing up, there were no disabled people in the media for him to look up to. "When I turned on the TV or the radio, and flicked to the newspaper, I never saw anyone like me. That's what I struggled with the most," he said." Which of our students are most likely to recognise themselves in the collective English texts they study at school? How much do our text selections reflect a diverse Australia: including genuine and fair repr...esentations of disabilities, class, cultural diversity, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, LBGTQI perspectives, balance of male and female writers, directors and protagonists? In the context of BLM awareness and protests, perhaps it's time to consider the collection of literary statues that may exclude or marginalise many of the young people in our classrooms. I know some schools are working hard to address this, and if you are interested in generating discussion in your faculty, I'll upload in another post a matrix I use for this purpose - examining the range and % of perspectives dominating or silenced within the selection of texts studied across your school.

19.01.2022 International letter writing competition with lesson plans, rubric and inspiration. Promoting precise language with a one page limit for the strongest writers. https://pulitzercenter.org//local-letters-global-change-pu

14.01.2022 Some reminders in here for adults and students.

11.01.2022 While very American, this list may be useful. A YA Australian novel, The Road to Winter published in 2016, is about a virus and may be worth adding to the list. You should read it before recommending to individuals because it may be too confronting for some.

11.01.2022 Another insight from Cult of Pedagogy - this one about the use of worksheets (busysheets). Perhaps an even greater challenge when teaching online but ways of transforming these into 'powersheets' are offered.

11.01.2022 What a brilliant resource - read this teaching to apply strategies for teaching critical perspectives, and how to deal with complex and difficult issues in the classroom. Whether you use this brilliant text in the senior years, or not, it is bound to give you ideas and resources to apply to other texts. And we need for Aboriginal texts like this in our English classrooms.... Please share with your colleagues. https://readingaustralia.com.au/lesson/the-drovers-wife/

06.01.2022 If you find Zoom exhausting, I just discovered one way of reducing the stress - removing vision of ourselves from the screen. (Thanks, Norman Eng)

05.01.2022 Film technique...teacher support...free from ABC. http://atom.asn.au/recorder_queen/recorderqueen.html

01.01.2022 Check out the poetry of Louise Glück, recent winner of Nobel Prize in Literature. So beautiful. https://poets.org/poems/louise-gluck