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Spark Notes Videos

Thug Notes is a YouTube Chanel discussing classic texts - To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Gatsby, etc. 

• Read study guides for your text (are there online articles and study notes on your text too?)
• Read sample essays
• Re-read, tab, highlight and annotate your set texts.  
• Practice writing essays
• Practice writing introductions and conclusions
• Practice planning to time
• Develop word and quote banks
• Make help notes on each of the topics
• Watch film of the text if available
• Write chapter summaries
• Create a glossary of terms / metalanguage bank
• Research essay writing techniques
• Look up words you don’t know / Use a thesaurus to expand your vocabulary
• Turn your notes into CramCards
• Listen to the audio of your text – this could be on your phone on the way to work.

Read Widely and Broadly

• Newspapers > Summarise the story / re-write the story
• News websites
• Select books from the reading list provided     
  • Guardian Top 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
  • Goodreads Top Reads

Sentences by RMIT

Types of Clauses : Includes other aspects of Grammar

Grammar Bytes : Definitions, handouts, exercises and links to tutorials on Youtube

BBC bite-size - sentences activity

Where do you find Literature810 American Literature ~ 820 English Literature ~ A820 Australian Literature ~ 830 Germanic Literature ~ 840 Romantic Literature ~ 850 Italian & Roman ~ 860 Spanish Literature ~ 870 Latin Literature ~ 880 Greek Literature  resources in the non-fiction collection?

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