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Personal Text Response - Three Example Essays

This resource includes three example personal text responses essays suitable to use as exemplars for Unit 1 VCE English. The essays are on these texts and topics:

  • We Have Always Lived in The Castle (novel): ‘Merricat is an entirely unlikeable character. Do you agree?’
  • Jasper Jones (novel): ‘Jasper Jones is an important novel about the discrimination in Australia’s small towns. Do you agree?’.
  • Romeo and Juliet (play): ‘Romeo and Juliet shows us how teenagers’ behaviour is the same now as it was 500 years ago. Do you agree?’

Included in this resource for each example essay there is:

  • An entire unannotated essay
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for paragraph structure
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for personal language
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for evidence and analysis

Cost: $50

To order, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/product/two-example-personal-text-response-essays/

 

High Ground - Two Example Essays

This resource includes two example text responses essays on High Ground suitable to use as exemplars for VCE English. The essays are on these topics:

  • “I am Gutjuk”
    How does High Ground show Gutjuk’s struggle to find his true identity?
  • ‘High Ground explores the violent consequences of the choices its characters make’. Discuss.

Included in this resource for each example essay there is:

  • An entire unannotated essay
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for paragraph structure
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for response to topic
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for evidence and analysis

Cost: $40

To order, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/product/high-ground-two-example-essays/

 

Sunset Boulevard - Two Example Essays

This resource includes two example text responses essays on Sunset Boulevard suitable to use as exemplars for VCE English. The essays are on these topics:

  • ‘Norma Desmond is responsible for the delusions others allow her to have’. To what extent do you agree?
  • ‘All of the characters in Sunset Boulevard are trying to manipulate others for their own ends’. Do you agree?

Included in this resource for each example essay there is:

  • An entire unannotated essay
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for paragraph structure
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for response to topic
  • Paragraphs of the essay annotated for evidence and analysis

Cost: $40

To order, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/product/sunset-boulevard-two-example-essays/

 

PD: English Graduate Teachers’ Day Out

  • Ringwood - March 2 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, $275
  • Zoom - March 3 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, $275

This session is aimed at teachers in their early years of teaching English. It is a day that will be rich in practical activities, resources, strategies and advice for teaching years 7-12 English classes. The day will include a number of mini-workshops that will look at:

  • Effective strategies to teach texts (reading and text response)
  • Effective strategies to teach writing (including vocabulary, sentence structure, creative writing, persuasive writing, essay writing and non-fiction writing)
  • Effective strategies to teach speaking and listening
  • How to give effective feedback (include how to manage time effectively)
  • How to design a unit effectively
  • Effective digital tools to use in the English classroom

This workshop provides an exciting opportunity for graduates to debrief and share their experiences with other graduates as well as to have a timely experience for reflecting on their pedagogical practice and to identify which activities can enrich it.

To enrol in the Ringwood session, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/event/english-graduate-teachers-day-out-2/

To enrol in the Zoom session, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/event/english-graduate-teachers-day-out-via-zoom/

 

PD: How to teach students to write creative non-fiction at Year Levels 7-10

  • Ringwood - March 22 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm, $200
  • Zoom - March 23 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm, $200

This workshop will demonstrate how to create units, assessments and learning activities to teach students to produce creative non-fiction writing such as:

  • Podcasts and blogs
  • Biographies, recounts and memoirs
  • Feature, news and ‘explainer’ articles
  • Reflective and personal writing

This workshop has been designed to help teachers create units and tasks at Year Levels 7-10 that will build skills within students to prepare them for the new ‘Creating Texts’ area of study in VCE English. As such, this workshop will focus on how to teach students to produce creative non-fiction texts for these purposes:

  • to express
  • to explain
  • to reflect
  • to persuade

To enrol in the Ringwood session, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/event/how-to-teach-students-to-write-creative-non-fiction-at-year-levels-7-10-2/

To enrol in the Zoom session, click here: https://www.tickingmind.com.au/event/how-to-teach-students-to-write-creative-non-fiction-at-year-levels-7-10/