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Literary criticism should be utilized "in order to make what is implicit in a book finely explicit" (Bloom, 2000, p. 19). Readers, students and teachers, should use the tools of critical literary theory and not be used by them. Literary criticism is a method of understanding, but the theory relies on developing self-understanding as well, and it is that desire to understand ourselves and the world that pushes me and my students to read.

The student blogs on the right hand side feature short stories with a breakdown of their notes.

A glog for students outlining some LWICT resources available 

great student interactive that explains copyright

Vast resources on copyright and the implications for students and teachers

This course contains a series of videos and interactive activity sheets that are designed to help Middle School Students in their preparation of essays, including the creation of structured and well-supported body paragraphs, introductions, conclusions and titles.

Thesis Statement Creator:

Please comment on structure, features, examples and language.

This story was written by a student in my Extension class in 2010. Mr D and I look forward to seeing what you can do.

This video was created by students in last year's Extension class. Mr D and I look forward to seeing what you can do.

So hi guys, Kirstin and I decided we'd start blogging stuff to do with school hoping it can help other students, this ones the homework one, but from here you can also look at the lecture blog and our own class blog which is specific to the gate and extension yr 10 english

For those students making their trailers on smart phones and iPads, I would suggest you enter this competition once your assignment is finished.

A great site that outlines the steps in creating a film trailer and some examples of tools/resources to use. For this task students create a film trailer from a book.