'Belonging': Student and Teacher Resources for the Area of Study: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

Evaluation of blog and HSC Area of Study textbook

Calling on HSC teachers and students to offer suggestions on a textbook on the new Area of Study Discovery

I am currently evaluating this blog and HSC Area of Study - Belonging: a student workbook and would greatly appreciate your feedback on what you like about these resources and what you would like to see more of.

You can add your comments in the section below. Consider the following:

- useful writing strategies for writing analytically and creatively in the HSC English Examination
- study guide type information
- meaningful activities for all 3 sections in the examination
- relevance of modelled responses
- relevance of key scene analysis activities
- relevance of analytical response plans
- any other information you can think of.

I greatly appreciate you taking the time to communicate to me what you need in relation to teaching or studying the HSC Area of Study.

Thank you

How to purchase Belonging Unit of Work and Worksheets

Once payment for the Belonging Unit of Work and Worksheets is received, an email will be sent to you with an electronic copy of the program and worksheets in a PDF file.

Activities are formated for classroom use - Simply print.

The lessons incorporate and extend on activities outlined in 'Area of Study: Belonging, a student workbook and this blog. See below for more details and sample pages.

Unit of work includes:

• lessons regarding the concept of belonging, reflective writing, related material analysis and learning and writing about Section 1 (unseen texts), Section 2 (creative writing) and Section 3 (analytical writing about related material and the prescribed text) of the HSC examination

• all lessons aligned with NSW Stage 6 Syllabus outcomes and content statements

• 4 assessment tasks to choose from: analytical response plan, journal writing, related material analysis and creative writing

• Each assessment task has an assessment rubric

• Choose lessons for one of the 14 prescribed texts

• Writing activities contain modeled responses

• Key scene analysis & analytical response plan for chosen prescribed text

• Practical lessons suitable for independent and teacher directed learning

• Lessons cater to various levels of ability

• Detailed 25 page Unit of Work outlining syllabus outcomes and content statements, time, learning activities, homework and lesson resources

• 75 pages of easily downloadable worksheets for immediate use in the classroom

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Welcome to 'Belonging'

Thank you for visiting the site. I hope you find the resources relating to the three sections of the HSC Examination: Unseen texts, Creative writing and Analytical writing, meaningful and easy to incorporate into your study if you are a student or implement in your teaching practice if you are a teacher. I am an English teacher and am aware of the increasing demands on our time: both teachers and students. Please feel free to dowload resources you feel are relevant to your purpose s as a student or a teacher.

The site is also available as a forum for discussion about Paper 1 of the HSC examination, teaching strategies and resources and general information for studying and teaching the Area of Study: Belonging.

I have created this blog to enhance the development of resources outlined in 'HSC English Area of Study: Belonging, a student workbook' which was published by Macmillan in 2008.

I am of the belief that teachers work extremely hard and their dedication and good will is highly under valued in society. Our time is precious and we often don’t have enough time to develop resources the way we would like to. That’s where I come in. I like writing and researching teaching strategies and resources and in the past I have written numerous programs for our English faculty suitable for Stages 4-6. My aim has always been to assist teachers in the development of interesting and relevant resources. I believe sharing resources makes our life much easier. Writing the textbook for Macmillan on ‘Belonging’ seemed like a natural succession. This was a new area of study and therefore a chance to refresh our teaching strategies for HSC English. This blog came about because of a suggestion from my publisher and because I feel that the development of ideas and resources for ‘Belonging’ is an ongoing and shared process.

I have recently conducted a number of workshops on ‘Belonging’ and am available to in-service teachers and students. I will be conducting more workshops in Semester 4 2008, including a workshop at the ETA Conference in November.

Encouraging your peers and colleagues to refer to the site, is greatly appreciated.

'Belonging': Student and Teacher Resources for the Area of Study

Monday, September 30, 2013

Evaluation of blog and HSC Area of Study textbook

Online Creative Writing e-Resources

About Me

Welcome to 'Belonging'