Author Archives: phill.taylor
Week Two: Formative Paragraphs
Hi everyone: Below is an extended table, in which you will find the one paragraph written by each of your peers on recent secondary readings [...]
Week Two Term Two – The Golden Era: 1950s Film
The film we begin with in our exploration of the teen genre–texts that focus on teenagers, adolescence and coming of age–is Reb [...]
Week One Term 2 – Tutorials
This week you have been given your tutorial topics for Task Three. This task is worth 10% of your years mark and represents a significant am [...]
Week One Term Two – Welcome Back!
It is clear that, after a long break such as the one we have all enjoyed, motivating and reengaging ourselves with the work at hand can be t [...]
Week Seven – Essay Writing
Notes from our seminar after school. Read carefully. PowerPoint – Essay Writing for 12 ATAR Dos and Don’ts – What Were Loo [...]
Week Seven – Catcher in the Rye Secondary Readings
The Catcher in the Rye is the first novel to explore the psychological and emotional world of the teenager. In this sense, Holden Caulfield [...]
Week Five – What was on the board this week
It’s great when we can cater for the students in the class who think with a “maths brain”, if there is such a thing. Here [...]
Week Five – Stimulus Writing
One of the hardest things to do in English is to write imaginatively. I often wondered, of late,whether this is a direct result of smart pho [...]
Week Five – Summary
So, this week we began our study of The Catcher in the Rye. When I first read this book, I have to admit that I hated it or, as Holden might [...]
Week Four – Its all in the question.
Hi everyone, I want to ask you two questions: what is it that, over the past four weeks, you think we have been doing? Why do you think we [...]
Week Four – Readings
Below are SIX readings for you to review and use. They crystallise many of the ideas we have been discussing and come from Jon Savage’ [...]
