English 

YEAR 10
Topic:  World War I poets

Library Catalogue:
808.81 MAR     War poems / Christopher Martin (2004)
821 BAR           Poetry of the First World War / Nicola Barber (2008)
821 COR           A corner of a foreign field : the illustrated poetry of the First World War (2010)
821.008 WOR   The Wordsworth book for first World War poetry / Marcus Clapham (1995)     
821.912 OWE    The war poems of Wilfred Owen / edited by Jon Stallworthy (1994)
821.912 SAS     The war poems / Siegfried Sassoon (1983)
821.91209 CHA  Poets of the First World War / Neil Champion (2002)

Websites:
First World War and contemporary war poetry : http://www.warpoetry.co.uk
Lost poets of the Great War : http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/
Sonnets of World War I : http://www.sonnets.org/wwi.htm#400
Wilfred Owen : http://www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/

   

Myths and Legends
Year 8 English

1. Keywords: Mythology, Legends, Name of your particular person

2. Overview of the topic:
World Book encyclopedia
Reference desk (look for encyclopedias in UQ reference, Elibrary, Internet information sources) http://intra.tss.qld.edu.au/resources/LibraryOnlineResources.asp

3. The Library Catalogue:
Non Fiction:
398.2 JAM Heroes, myths and legends
398.22 SAX The great deeds of superheroes
398.2 MYT Myths and legends
398.2 LEW Myths and legends

4. Internet sites:
The Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/
Classical myths and legends http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Hercules/links.html

5.Referencing and copyright
Information on copyright and how to prepare your list of references can be found in your school Record Book on page 143 or via the Library Homepage TSS Guide to Referencing.
REMEMBER: this pathway is a guide only, and there are many other resources in the Library available for you to use.

 

The Crucible
Year 11 English

Keywords: The Crucible, the Salem Witch Trials, Joseph McCarthy, United States – History, Arthur Miller, Un-American Activities Committee

1. Encyclopedia for an overview
World Book encyclopedia - has 7 different entries for Salem Witch Trials
Reference desk (look for encyclopedias in UQ reference, Elibrary, Internet information sources) http://intra.tss.qld.edu.au/resources/LibraryOnlineResources.asp

2. The Catalogue
Keyword searching –
The Crucible
Arthur Miller United States – History

3. Internet Sites
National Geographic Site
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem
Images and Facsimiles - 17th century New England http://www.ogram.org/17thc/images.shtml
San Diego County Office of Education
http://curriculumunits.com
Salem Massachusetts the City Guide
http://www.salemweb.com
Salem Witch Trials
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
Arthur Miller official web site
http://www.ibiblio.org/miller/

4. Magazine indexes : Online Resources
ANZRC magazine index has four reviews of The Crucible as a film

5. Referencing and Copyright
Information on copyright and how to prepare your list of references can be found in your school Record Book or via the Library Homepage TSS Guide to Referencing.

Year 11 English: ESL
Media bias
Resources Online:
ANZRC/Advanced search/search “media bias”/Boolean phrase/Publication “The Australian”
Academic One-File/search “media bias”
Echo Contemporary Issues/search “media bias"

Websites:
Quadrant Online: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/muehlenberg/2008/11/media-bias
Evatt Foundation: Speaking of media bias: http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/105.html
Google/Advanced search/exact phrase “media bias”/domain “.au”

Referencing and copyright:
nformation on copyright and how to prepare your list of references can be found in your school Record Book or via the TSS Guide to  Referencing.

REMEMBER: this pathway is a guide only, and there are many other resources in the Library available for you to use.

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Feature Article
Year 12 English

Topic: Feature Article on Kite Runner:
Online Resources/World Conflicts Today/select conflict Afghanistan
Online Resources/World Conflicts Today/search eg. Taliban
Online Resources/Facts on File/Modern World History/search eg. Taliban


Refugees International: Afghanistan - http://www.refugeesinternational.org/where-we-work/asia/afghanistan?gclid=CK7jsLje86ECFRC8bwodjE0mEw
The Cultural Orientation Project: Afghanistan -
http://www.cal.org/co/afghan/aintro.html

Topic: Feature Article on Refugees

1. Keywords: Refugees, Refugees - Australia; Refugees - Vietnamese; Boat people

2. Reference desk (look for encyclopedias in UQ reference, Elibrary, Internet information sources)http://intra.tss.qld.edu.au/resources/LibraryOnlineResources.asp

For Statistics:
Australian Bureau of Statistics - www.abs.gov.au
SBS World News: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/

3. Library Catalogue
Non-fiction:
323.631 MCM Asylum seekers: Australia's response to refugees
323.631 PER Refugees
325.21 MAD Refugees
325.210994 FRO From nothing to zero: letters from refugees in Australia detention centres

4. On-Line Resources:
Elibrary for newspaper articles - search under your keyword and restrict
search to the Courier Mail or The Australian
ANZRC for magazine articles printed mainly in Australia
Good sites for research - for general Internet sites

5. Internet Sites
Good sites to search:
Refugee Council of Australia - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/
U.S. Committee for Refugees - www.refugees.org
New Internationalist Magazine http://www.newint.org/
Gang reports from Australia and O.S http://organizedcrime.about.com/cs/asia
Australian Multicultural Foundation http://www.amf.net.au/projects/ethnic.html

Referencing an Copyright Information on copyright and how to prepare your list of references can be found in your school Record Book or via the Library Homepage TSS Guide to Referencing.

REMEMBER: this pathway is a guide only, and there are many other resources in the Library available for you to use.

Editorial
Year 12 English

Select from the range of regional, national and international publications' editorials below:

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/
Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/
The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
The Montreal Gazette www.montrealgazette.com/editorial/
The Toronto Sun www.canoe.ca/TorontoSun/editorial.html
The News-Sentinel http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=EDITORIAL
Tribune- Review www.triblive.com/opinion/
The Ashville Citizens-Times www.citizen-times.com/editorial/index.shtml
The Calgary Sun www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/editorial.html
The World News Network http://www.editorial.com/
The Wall Street Journal www.opinionjournal.com/

War reportage
Year 12 http://inkpot.com/news/ The Flying Inkpot International Newslinks
Elibrary newspaper index - Elibrary has a wide range of international newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ - Online newspapers.com
http://1stheadlines.com/ 1stHeadlines
http://www.newspaperindex.com/ Newspaper index
http://library.uncg.edu/news/ News and newspapers on line
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html Refdeks.com
http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html can access the New York Times
http://www.world-newspapers.com/ World Newspapers http://newsdirectory.com/news/press/ Newsdirectory.com http://abcnews.go.com/ USA Specific Newspaper sites which may be useful – news available in English http://www.baghdadbulletin.com Iraq/Baghdad
http://www.iraqdaily.com/ Iraq
http://www.iraqpress.org/ Iraq
http://www.jpost.com/ Jerusalem – Israel
http://english.wafa.ps/ Palestine
http://mideastweb.org/mewzine.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

 

A midsummer night's dream
Year 12 English

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Go to: "Life & Times"
"Theatre" and then "Elizabethan Performance" and ‘Globe Theatre’, etc.
Criticism"A Midsummer Night’s Dream Guide
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/
Examine the articles on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, particularly those relating to performances of the play. TeachersFirst Shakespeare page http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/content/spectopics/shakespeare.cfm
Shakespeare on line http://www.shakespeare-online.com

"FIVE BELLS" by KENNETH SLESSOR
Each of the following web pages has material related to the study of the poem
"Five Bells", of about its creator, Kenneth Slessor.
Year 11 Oz Poetry Course Study Site - http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/devices.html
Duke University North Carolina - http://www.duke.edu/~sjh4/bells.html

Romeo and Juliet staging
Year 12 
Oggi music http://www.oggimusic.com/RandJ.htm

 

Year 12 English: ESL
Civil rights

Resources Online:
Echo/Issue outlines/search ‘civil rights’ exact phrase
ELibrary/choose Topics/search ‘civil rights’

Websites:
Australian Govt: Civil rights: http://australia.gov.au/topics/law-and-justice/civil-rights
Queensland Govt: Netlinks:  Link
Australian Human Rights and Civil Rights Index: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~victorp/vphuman.htm

Library Catalogue:
305.0994 HOR 10 steps to a more tolerant Australia / Donald Horne (2003)
323 HUM Human rights, human wrongs : the Oxford Amnesty lectures
2001 / edited by Nicholas Owen. (2003)
323.0601 GRA Amnesty International / Reg Grant. (2004)
325.94 REF Refugees (2009) 342.06 POL Police powers, your rights / Caxton Legal Centre Inc (2010)
342.94085 BYR Bills of rights in Australia: history, politics and law / Andrew Byrnes et al (2008)

Referencing and copyright:
Information on copyright and how to prepare your list of references can be found in your school Record Book or via the TSS Guide to  Referencing.

REMEMBER: this pathway is a guide only, and there are many other resources in the Library available for you to use.

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