04/07/2023
Hello Everyone, Last Saturday morning, I went to a preview of the Ramsay Art Prize at our ever-stimulating Art Gallery of South Australia. As always, it […]
20/06/2023
With the Falling of the Dusk By Stan Grant Harper Collins Publishers 2021 Having just finished re-reading Stan Grant’s fascinating chronicles of his adventures as a […]
26/04/2023
Tales From the Cafe By Toshikazu Kawaguchi Picador, 2020 Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down Before the Coffee Gets Cold which introduces the […]
15/04/2023
This task is suitable for Year 9 students and employs a range of higher-order thinking based on multiple genres such as drama, poetry, songs, newspaper articles […]
08/04/2023
The Happiest Man on Earth By Eddie Jaku Pan Macmillan Australia, 2020 Wow! Where to start with this book. The Australian Book Industry Awards Winner 2021. […]
03/04/2023
Allusions to words (doublethink), phrases (Big Brother) and objects (a Guy Fawkes mask/red poppies), even weather events (Lear’s storm), historical events (5 November), time (1984) people […]
27/03/2023
27/03/2023
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET By C. S. Lewis (Longmans, Green and Co Ltd., 1966) Within the first four chapters, the battle for our hearts and […]
25/03/2023
Hello Everyone, This evening, I spent a wonderful hour at the Hallett Cove Library, learning more about the life of the American writer, Edgar Allan Poe […]