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    Teaching resource from my recent practicum - lesson activity ideas for 'We Are Australian' units of work for Stage 6 English Studies - my time with this unit focused on studying a range of texts for their representations of Australia, including the movie, Tomorrow, when the war began; the Men at Work song "Down under", a recent Telegraph newspaper article on Alex McKinnon, and a Komninos poem.

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    Teaching resource from my recent practicum - lesson activity ideas for 'We Are Australian' units of work for Stage 6 English Studies - my time with this unit focused on studying a range of texts for their representations of Australia, including the movie, Tomorrow, when the war began; the Men at Work song "Down under", a recent Telegraph newspaper article on Alex McKinnon, and a Komninos poem.

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    12ENSTU1 Down Under Men at Work Table 26.5.14 Mon S2

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    26/5/2014

    Todays LO: To be able to organise information about how Australian culture is represented
    in one song and one poem about Australia

    Two new texts
    1. Song Down Under by Men at Work

    Character Aspects of
    Australian
    culture that
    they represent
    Australian
    values they
    embody
    One (1) quote
    about
    Australian
    culture
    One (1) quote
    about values
    Australian
    traveller
    Leave about 4
    lines each
    Laid back easy
    going
    Drinker
    arrogant
    value our land
    and its resources

    do you speak a-
    my language?
    because I come
    from the land of
    plenty?
    Man in Brussels
    (Australian)

    Buff, tall - strong Australian food
    cultural icons
    (vegemite),
    laidback culture
    (drinking)
    where beer does
    flow and men
    chunder
    (heaving drinking
    culture)
    I come from the
    land down
    under proud
    of his home
    Colin Hay
    (Songwriter)
    inspiration:
    barry
    humphries/dame
    edna/aussie
    comedian
    Cynical

    Aboriginal rights
    Aboriginal
    culture
    Mateship
    Beach/surfer
    culture
    freedom
    where beer does
    flow and men
    chunder
    where women
    glow, and men
    plunder
    26/5/2014
    Todays LO: To be able to organise information about how Australian culture is represented
    in one song and one poem about Australia

    2. Poem Nobody calls me a wog, anymore by Komninos



    Character Aspects of
    Australian
    culture that
    they represent
    Australian
    values they
    embody
    One (1) quote
    about
    Australian
    culture
    One (1) quote
    about values
    Australians
    Leave about 4
    lines each

    Komninos

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