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  1. hingec

    Poetry - tell me wat ya think of my poem

    Well its not great, but pretty good for a year 9 I suggest you go out and get a book called "The Writer's Voice" by Al Alvarez. It will help you out a LOT if you want to get into writing more - its the only set text for my english extension 2 course. The only real way to improve is to keep...
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    Belonging - 2009

    If anyone is still looking for related texts I would heartily recommend Going Home Stories by Archie Weller or Day of the Dog by Archie Weller They are both about Aboriginal youth and fit belonging like a glove. Going Home Stories is a compilation of short stories so there is even stuff for...
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    Anyone into photography?

    I'm doing photo-emulsion printing for my Vis Arts body of work. Picked up a Nikkon D40 when going through Japan for an amazing price (Can't remember quite what, it was in Yen) thanks to the exchange rate. I love using it, getting great pictures of my mates and doing work at the same time :D Of...
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    Fight Club

    Fight Club is a crazy-good text, I did an in-depth analysis of it for Ext. 1 prelim.. It will require loads more thought and really good knowledge of postmodernism but the juxtaposition of mankind (and the exclusion of women) is really fascinating. The connections with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
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    Belonging - 2009

    We are doing Skrzynecki's Immigrant Chronicles as our core text... Its alright. Own Choice texts are a bit trickier - I'm thinking of doing My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell then maybe Looking for Alibrandi, The Book Thief or The Dressmaker... Basically anything about family or...
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