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Incorporating Poetry into Text and Context Study
Poetry can be neglected in senior English so one strategy to explore the mechanics of poetry, use creativity and use higher order thinking within the text content is to produce songs or poems about or by characters in the texts. It forces students to empathise with the characters, review events of the texts and rearrange their content…
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Where your money goes
The ATO have included a new feature in personal tax returns this year by providing a statement with colourful chart outlining where an individual’s tax is going proportionately into the government’s debt. If you paid $10,000 tax, you can see that $1700 went towards Heath, $800 towards Defence and $3700 of that went to Welfare…
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Instincts
The other night as I was riding my bike, lit up like a Christmas tree, I wondered if perhaps cyclists should wear red and blue lights, instead of red and white lights. The natural instinct of most motorists when they see flashing red and blue lights is to slow down, and that is the desired…