Beginning work on a short, five week close study of this text for my Preliminary HSC class. The focus is on examining the link between context and text and on 'how' key issues and themes are communicated. While this text is more commonly taught in Primary or junior secondary, I think it is engaging for senior students as well. From first impressions, it is clear that there is little general knowledge about the era and the social consequences that flowed from it. There is such a wealth of photographic material that students will also be asked to develop their visual literacy and empathy skills.I will post various resources I develop for those who might be interested in studying it as a senior text for developing interpretive and research skills with Prelim Standard Course students. The aim is that the text will serve as the vehicle for refining response skills. I think many of the texts that had been used in junior school could be re-evaluated in this way. 'Slake's Limbo' and 'The Running Man' are excellent novels to use for evaluating narrative techniques such as 'voice', structure and symbolism.
Stay tuned!
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