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Recognise your teacher Parents, have your say! Be involved in acknowledging what is great about your school. The 2012 WA Education Awards are now open and this is your opportunity to let us know who you would like to see your school nominate. By taking the time to recognise your schools' principal, teachers and school support staff, you both will go into the draw to each win an Apple iPad! Simply fill out the Recognise Your Teacher online acknowledgement form below by 25 June 2012. Please note that this form does not automatically constitute a nomination. It will be up to the discretion of the principal and/or school board to decide whether a formal nomination is actually submitted

Later in the term we venture into readings. Some of the ones we look at are outlined here.

The last comment was meant to read 'semester'. We start on these readings this week.

We watched these in class today.

Resource Kit for analysing Macbeth in conjunction with Bell Shakespeare's performance. 

Vast resources on copyright and the implications for students and teachers

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.

Video summary notes for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, and more!

Aspen and Chelsea take the mickey out of Mr Barton.