Engaging Novels 16 May 2015 Rosie Kerin 1

Engaging Novels 16 May 2015 Rosie Kerin 1

When I sit back down he says, ‘Hello, son’, as though he has forgotten that we have already started a conversation. ‘Good day with Brendan? ’ ‘Yes’, I say. ‘Alright’. I take a few bits of toast but my tongue feels paralysed. ‘Da? When you’ve got your degree in criminology, do you want to help catch criminals? ’ He takes a deep breath and puts the book on his lap. I can tell that he wants to talk today. I pull my legs up on the settee and move in close to him so that my knee touches his leg. ‘Not especially, ’ he says. ‘I want to understand them. You’ve heard the expression prevention is better than cure? ’ ‘But you and Uncle Jack and Uncle Tony talk about criminals deserving everything they get. You said they should be strung up. ’ My father senses that I have caught him out. He closes his eyes for a moment, then opens them, as though to start again. (M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down, Chapter 4, page 36. ) 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 2

Consider the novel you brought along: Showing not telling Sentence structures and variation Dialogue tags Dialogue beats 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 3

AITSL: Engagement in Australian Schools Behavioural Emotional Cognitive From Miguel Angel Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 4

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Authors Protagonists PublicationGenres Fiction/non-fiction Historical periods Optimistic, pessimistic Literary style Structure Choice of novel 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 6

Why this novel for these students at this time? Trigger warnings What other texts might be introduced to form a suite of texts? 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 7

If I love the novel, it’s more likely to improve the teaching and learning? Agree or disagree? 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 8

Emotional engagement: Text selection and access From Tyler-Adams 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 9

Reading the novel aloud is necessary to ensure everyone has a knowledge of the whole book. Agree or disagree? 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 10

Whispersynch Video removed but click link above 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 11

Emotional engagement: Pre-reading Family vignettes The Castle - dinner scene (3. 17 mins) The Royles - Episode 1 (first 3 mins) Dinner at Downton Abbey (1 min) Shameless: (2 mins) Australian Gogglebox trailer (2 mins) Teaching unit coming soon 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 12

Emotional engagement: Pre-reading Shameless – Breakfast with the Gallaghers Groups of 4: each pe rson take one of the following and lead discussion characterisation - setting - dialogue - mise en scene 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 13

Emotional engagement: Pre-reading hooks from Indigo Skies Photography 16/05/15 Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 14

Emotional engagement: Pre-reading from Indigo Skies Photography Negative nouns/verbs/adjectiv es 16/05/15 Neutral Positive nouns/verbs/adjectives Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 15

Cognitive engagement Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 16

From Drew Coffman Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au 17

Reading Australia Visual literacy; fonts; friendship Colonial Australia; feminism; critical literacy; landscape 16/05/15 Colonial Australia, Voice, Creative nonfiction Using ibooks; culture and family; paired with Redfern Now intertextuality Visual literacy, alienation, migration; literary/visual allusions Time travel; dialect; language over time; twitterature Rosie Kerin www. writeme. net. au Historical context, creative nonfiction, hashtag reporting COMING: Pairing texts, close language study; domestic scenes; point of view; unreliable Vs omniscient third-person 18