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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
  • Top Australian Novels
  • 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?

Mrs Kate Watts
(Head of Domain)

Mrs Maria Slater

Mrs Terrie Driscoll

Mr Davide Angelo

Mrs Sue Bradley

Ms Dianne Hill

Ms Nicole Cilauro

Mr John McCullough

Mrs Michelle Everett

Mrs Amy Clark

Mr Andrew Dyer

International Phonetic Alphabet